Mobile Electrical Engineer - Birmingham

BALFOUR BEATTY; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Balfour Beatty is seeking an experienced electrical maintenance professional to independently deliver maintenance and minor projects across our UK property estate. You will coordinate subcontractors, ensure safety and compliance, and uphold asset reliability through PPMs.

You will act as an Authorised Person for LV electrical and related duties, requiring strong fault-finding skills, a pro-active safety approach, and willingness to travel across sites.

Qualifications

• Electrical testing and inspection to 18th Edition (2391).
• NVQ Level 3 with City & Guilds 2360 Parts 1 & 2.
• Completed recognised apprenticeship and ECS gold card.
• Experience working independently across multiple sites in Facilities Management.
• IT literate to complete company documents and reports.
• Strong fault-finding, maintenance and compliance-led work background.
• Knowledge of UK Health & Safety legislation; SMSTS or similar.
• Full driving licence held.
• Willing to travel/work away from home and out of hours as needed.
• Cross-functional capabilities beyond electrical works.

Responsibilities

• Deliver, coordinate and assure electrical maintenance and minor projects UK-wide.
• Coordinate, induct and supervise subcontractors for safe, compliant delivery.
• Prepare RAMS and health & safety documentation; promote safety culture on site.
• Act as Authorised Person for LV electrical, mechanical and working at height duties.
• Perform planned and reactive electrical maintenance with minimal supervision.
• Manage planned preventative maintenance (PPM) ensuring compliance and reliability.
• Support minor project works and remediation across sites.
• Maintain spares and equipment to minimise operational risk.
• Deliver works in line with statutory requirements, company procedures and SLAs.

Skills

Electrical fault-finding

Maintenance

Health & Safety

IT literacy

Multi-site experience

Driving licence

PAT testing

Travel flexibility

Teamwork

Supply chain coordination

Education

Electrical City and Guilds 2391 (Testing & Inspection)

NVQ Level 3 + City & Guilds 2360 (Parts 1 & 2)

Completed apprenticeship + ECS gold card

Tools

N/A

Job description

About the role

In this role, you will independently deliver, coordinate and assure electrical hard services maintenance and minor project works across the Balfour Beatty property estate (UK-wide). You will be required to operate with a high degree of autonomy, ensuring electrical systems remain safe, compliant and fully operational, while contributing directly to statutory compliance, health & safety governance and service performance across multiple sites in the UK.

What you'll be doing

• To liaise effectively with clients, internal stakeholders and specialist
  subcontractors to ensure works are delivered safely, compliantly and to
  agreed standards;
• To coordinate, induct and supervise subcontractors during planned and
  reactive maintenance activities, ensuring quality, compliance and safe
  delivery;
• To prepare, review and implement RAMS and relevant Health & Safety
  documentation, and promote a strong health & safety culture through
  toolbox talks, inductions and on-site compliance oversight;
• To be appointed as and act as Authorised Person for relevant duties such
  as LV electrical, mechanical and working at height;
• To deliver planned and reactive electrical maintenance across the UK
  property estate with minimal day-to-day supervision, exercising professional
  judgement to prioritise workload, resolve technical issues and undertake
  electrical fault-finding and compliance-led works;
• To manage and complete planned preventative maintenance (PPM)
  activities, ensuring statutory compliance and asset reliability across the
  estate;
• To support minor project works, defect rectification and compliance-driven
  remedials across multiple sites;
• To maintain appropriate spares, materials and equipment to support
  effective service delivery and minimise operational risk;
• To deliver works in line with statutory requirements, company procedures
  and agreed SLAs, applying professional judgement within established
  frameworks.

Who we're looking for

• Electrical City and Guilds 2391 Electrical testing and inspection to 18th Edition
• NVQ Level 3 plus city and guilds 2360 parts 1 and 2
• Completed recognised apprenticeship and hold current ECS gold grade
  card
• Proven experience working independently across multiple sites within a
  Facilities Management environment
• IT Literate to Complete company documents i.e. maintenance reports.
• Strong background in fault-finding, maintenance and compliance-led works
• Sound knowledge of UK Health and Safety legislation inc. SMSTS or similar
• Possesses full driving licence
• Ability to manage diverse works and associated supply chain activities
• PAT test experience essential
• Willing to work away from home and out of hours where required, in line with
  business needs
• Ability to carry out other works outside of electrical – not limited to basic
  plumbing, building fabric works etc
• Happy to work alone or within a team

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About us

Balfour Beatty Group Enabling Functions are Legal, Finance, IT and Procurement, Communications, Health Safety and Environment, HR and Sustainability. Together, they support delivery of our Build to Last strategy whilst improving efficiencies and standardising our approach, systems and processes.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [e-mail]