Highways Electrician

M Group Highways; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company dedicated to maintaining and renewing infrastructure across the UK. As a Highways Electrician, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring safe transportation and movement of people. This hands-on position involves street lighting installation, electrical testing, and compliance with health and safety standards. You'll work in a supportive environment that values safety and teamwork, offering opportunities for growth. With competitive benefits and a commitment to community, this is an exciting chance to make a real impact in the industry.

Benefits

Matched Pension Scheme

Online GP Service

Employee Assistance Programme

Retail Discounts

Life Assurance

Cycle to Work Scheme

Enhanced Parental Leave

Discretionary Bonus Scheme

21 Days Annual Leave

Personal Accident Cover

Qualifications

• Experience working on highways and street lighting.
• Commitment to safety and ability to work outdoors in all weather.

Responsibilities

• Excavation, cable laying, and street lighting installation.
• Ensure health and safety compliance and operate testing equipment.

Skills

Street Lighting Installation

Electrical Testing (BS7671)

Excavation

Cable Laying

Health and Safety Compliance

Education

Level 2 Electrical Qualification

Tools

Small Plant Equipment

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Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

At M Group Highways, we’re supporting the safe transportation and movement of people across the UK.

We don’t just build roads and bridges- we’re building a better future, creating lasting social value that gives back to the communities in which we work.

As a major supplier of specialist highway electrical services, our streetlighting teams maintain and design over 350,000 street lighting assets.

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

You'll join our operations team in Peterborough! Responsibilities include excavation, cable laying, street lighting installation, electrical testing to BS7671, and defect reporting.

You'll ensure health and safety compliance for yourself and others. Operate small plant and testing equipment under Site Supervisor guidance. Install traffic management as per method statements. Participate in an out-of-hours emergency call-out system for the Peterborough Highway Services network.

If you have a keen eye for detail, a commitment to safety, and enjoy a varied hands-on role, we’d love to hear from you!

What You’ll Bring

• Experience of working on the highways
• Do you have previous street lighting exerience? You'll need this
• Work as part of a team
• You'll be prepared to work unsociable hours as required
• Do you have Level 2 Electrical Qualification? You'll need this or equivalent
• You'll possess a high degree of manual dexterity demonstrated through the use of hand tools.
• You'll be required to work outdoors in all weathers and be required to walk and stand on uneven ground.
• You'll also be able to work within a confined space, without restriction.
  
  

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme
  
  

In addition, this role offers;

• Company van/vehicle and fuel card for business use
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 21 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Standby / Overtime / Call out
• Personal Accident Cover
  
  

About Us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
  
  

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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