Maintenance Electrician

Rydon; Crawley; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company van

Fuel card

25 days holiday

Pension scheme 4%

On call allowance

Health plan

Job summary

Rydon is recruiting an experienced Building Maintenance Electrician to join the NHS maintenance and repair team in the South East. You will perform electrical repairs across Sussex and Surrey, including emergency lighting testing as part of PPM tasks, and may assist with basic building trades.

The role operates 8am–5pm, Monday to Friday, with an on-call rota to boost earnings. A competitive starting salary and comprehensive benefits package are provided.

Qualifications

• Experience in commercial electrical maintenance, ideally within FM or NHS settings.
• NVQ/City & Guilds Level 3 in electrical installations and 18th edition required.
• 2391 testing/inspection experience is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide repairs to ambulance stations, make-ready centres and emergency outposts.
• Carry out commercial electrical repairs and maintenance including circuit breakers, controls, fuses, lights and motors.
• Complete planned preventative maintenance, such as emergency lighting testing.
• May assist with basic plumbing, carpentry and ironmongery depending on qualifications.

Skills

Electrical maintenance

People skills

Education

NVQ/City & Guilds Level 3 electrical installations

18th Edition Wiring Regulations

2391 electrical testing

Job description

Overview

We now have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Multi Skilled Electrical Maintenance Engineer to join our South East based NHS building maintenance and repair team. This team delivers planned, preventative and responsive building maintenance and repairs.

Rydon Maintenance is an expanding division of the Rydon Group and is successfully providing hard FM (facilities management services) to a variety of clients, predominantly within the healthcare sector. Rydon Maintenance provides hard FM services across England for a growing number of NHS Trusts. We look after more than 250 buildings on behalf of 20 NHS Trusts on a planned, responsive repairs and small works projects basis. We provide maintenance services to hospitals, ambulance trusts, primary care trusts as well as mental health trusts.Using the latest technology we ensure properties are well maintained, efficient and fit for purpose.

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Job Purpose

We now have an exciting new opportunity for an experienced Building Maintenance Electrician to join our South East based NHS maintenance and repair. This team has been appointed to provide a planned and reactive maintenance service to our end client, a world class provider of emergency and urgent health care services in pre-hospital and out of hospital environments.

As part of this Electrical Maintenance Engineer role, you will provide repairs to ambulance stations, make-ready centres and emergency response outposts across Sussex and Surrey. The types of work involve commercial electrical repairs and maintenance. This could involve work with circuit breakers, controls, fuses, lights, motors and more. You will also be involved with completing PPM's (planned preventative maintenance) such as emergency lighting testing. The ideal candidate would also be willing and have the ability to get involved in a variety of other general building maintenance tasks which could include, depending on qualifications/experience, basic plumbing, carpentry and iron mongery.

Normal working hours are 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday. You will also participate in an on-call rota system (which offers the opportunity to increase your earnings and be involved in additional urgent repairs).

What we can offer you;

• A competitive starting salary


• Company van + Fuel card


• Holiday Entitlement: 25 days per annum


• Holiday Purchase Scheme: Buy up to an additional 5 days holiday


• Pension Scheme: 4% contributory.


• On call allowance and overtime rates paid per call out.


• Health Cash Plan: helping you spread the cost of essential healthcare


• 24/7 EAP Service: free advice, counselling and support for you and your family whenever you need it.


• Wellbeing and mental health champions readily available at work.


• Access to an employee discount scheme which includes a wide-range of special offers and discounts on insurances, lifestyle goods and services.


• Flexible benefits for you to choose from including Critical Illness, DenPlan and Cycle to work schemes.


• Employee Referral Scheme: recommend a personal connection to us and claim a cash reward for their successful hire.


• Free Flu Vaccinations and Eye Care Vouchers


• Opportunities for you to progress your career across the business

Experience Required

The successful candidate will have strong commercial electrical experience ideally gained working for an FM (Facilities Management) company. Experience working in an NHS or healthcare environment would also be beneficial, although candidates with experience gained in other commercial environments will also be considered (ie offices, hotels, education etc).

You will hold an NVQ or City and Guilds qualification Level 3 for electrical installations, 18th edition and 2391.

If you are an electrical maintenance engineer, have great people skills and are passionate about delivering excellent quality planned, preventative and responsive maintenance then we would strongly encourage you to apply.

Additional Information

As a well established, progressive company we are committed to attracting and retaining individuals by offering an excellent benefits package that includes a wide range of core and voluntary benefits.

Rydon is an equal opportunities employer and promotes diversity in employment. Successful candidates will be selected solely on their ability to carry out the duties of the post.