Electrician

Novus Property Solutions; Manchester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a dedicated Electrician to join their team in Manchester. This role offers the chance to make a real difference in local communities while working in a supportive and inclusive environment. As part of a skilled team, you will carry out essential repairs and maintenance in social housing, ensuring customer satisfaction and safety. With a strong focus on professional development and community impact, this position not only provides a competitive salary and benefits but also the opportunity to contribute positively to the lives of others. If you're passionate about your craft and want to work for a company that values its people, this is the role for you.

Benefits

Attractive salary & benefits

Paid Call Out

23 Days Holidays & BH

Pension scheme

Fleet Van/Fuel Card

Discounted Healthcare Scheme

Highstreet & lifestyle discounts

A day paid volunteering per year

Length of service awards

Qualifications

• City & Guilds 2391 and 18th Edition qualifications required.
• NICEIC registration preferred.

Responsibilities

• Perform fault finding and repairs on social housing properties.
• Manage your own workload while delivering excellent customer service.

Skills

Fault finding

Responsive repairs

Electrical repairs

Customer service

Health and Safety compliance

Initiative and problem-solving

Education

City & Guilds 2391 qualification

18th Edition Electrical Qualification

Tools

Handheld device for job tickets

Fleet Van

Job description

Electrician

Job Location: Site based covering Manchester. Standard Hours Monday- Friday 39 hours plus out of hours on call.

Start Date: 28th February 2025.

Are you looking for a new role where you can utilise your Electrician skills whilst also making a difference to local communities? Knowing that at the end of the day you have not only worked alongside a skilled and professional team, but that what you have delivered really mattered to your customer. At Novus, our Electricians pride themselves on delivering their valued and skilled service with care and compassion in an inclusive environment that offers security and challenges you every day.

Based on a Social Housing Tenanted property Responsive Repairs contract, your role will be varied and customer focused, surrounded by like-minded teammates who work together to ensure an excellent service. To make your day more effective our central support team will plan your work to ensure customer needs are met whilst balancing your travel time. In this role, you’ll get to see the impact your skills have on the people and communities you work with every day; and all whilst working in a secure, inclusive, and caring environment.

What’s in it for you?

1. Attractive salary & benefits to suit you these contracts on an ongoing basis.
2. Paid Call Out 1 in 3/4 Weeks
3. 23 Days Hols & BH – option to buy or sell holidays.
4. Pension scheme
5. Fleet Van/Fuel Card
6. Discounted Healthcare Scheme
7. Highstreet & lifestyle discounts including Taste card
8. A day paid volunteering per year
9. Length of service awards, and more…

Responsibilities:

1. Carrying out fault finding & responsive repairs on tenanted Social Housing properties.
2. Works include but are not limited to repairing MCB – circuit breakers, small electrical repairs, Switches, Re-certification, certificating all works.
3. Working from job tickets or a handheld device daily.
4. Trusted to manage your own day and workload effectively.
5. Always delivering an outstanding service to customers with the understanding that you are working in their homes.
6. Following Novus’ exemplary Health and Safety policies and standards.
7. This role will require a DBS check.
8. A full UK driving licence is required.

About You:

As an Electrician you will possess a City & Guilds 2391 qualification. You will also need to have the 18th Edition with a desirable understanding of amendment 2. NICEIC registered preferable. You will need to be a confident driver with a Full UK driving licence as travel is involved with this position. What is equally as important is the ability to take responsibility to use your initiative to identify solutions and ensure tasks are completed in a timely manner, delivering customer satisfaction. This role will also require a DBS check.

A little bit about us:

Novus Property Solutions is a dynamic, award-winning property maintenance, refurbishment, compliance, and decarbonisation specialist with more than 700 colleagues in 19 locations across Great Britain, providing a combination of local knowledge and national strength. We are a social and environmentally responsible family-owned business with a rich 125-year heritage, delivering a range of bespoke services and solutions to a wide variety of clients. Our vision is to be the leader in building and maintenance solutions, delivered with compassion and care for the communities in which we operate.

At Novus Property Solutions we value people, and we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace that enables our people to bring their full selves to work. We understand for many reasons, that people very rarely meet all the criteria laid out in the job advert, so we encourage you to apply to the role even if you do not meet all the criteria or hold all the qualifications. You may be just who we are looking for to join our award-winning Property Maintenance company in this, or another role.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.