Job Description

Overview:

We now have an excellent opportunity for an experienced Maintenance Electrician to join our NHS Maintenance team in Homerton, London.

Rydon Maintenance Ltd provides a range of hard facilities management and property maintenance services to a variety of clients, predominantly domestic property and commercial buildings in the social housing, health and social care sectors. With offices in London and the South East, to Bristol in the South West and Bedford in the Midlands our experience has taken us across a variety of sensitive healthcare environments. Our expertise ranges from the construction of substantial community hospitals to our current provision of maintenance services to over 300 buildings for 20 Trusts.

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Job Purpose:

We now have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Maintenance Electrician to join our NHS Maintenance team in Homerton, London. This team deliver a first-class repairs service in partnership with an NHS Trust across three local sites.

You will work as part of a highly skilled maintenance team who are responsible for ensuring that jobs completed meet the desired quality and customer service standards. You will be responsible for planned, preventative and responsive maintenance to ensure that these busy healthcare environments are operational at all times. The types of work involve commercial electrical repairs, maintenance and installation. 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.

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

Please note a full UK driving license is required for this role.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced maintenance electrician to make a real difference and offers excellent opportunity for personal growth and development.

What we can offer you;

A competitive starting salary 25 days holiday including the ability to increase your annual leave On call allowance and overtime Access to an employee discount scheme which includes a wide-range of special offers and discounts on insurances, lifestyle goods and services. Company pension, life assurance and income protection. Flexible benefits for you to choose from including Critical Illness, Dental Insurance, private medical and more. Health and wellness benefits such as free flu vaccinations, access to an Employee Assistance and Wellbeing Programme, BUPA Health & Wellbeing Plans, access to our Health and Wellbeing portal with an extensive range of advice and resources and much much more Opportunities to progress your career around the business.

By joining Rydon, you become part of a talented, dedicated team of maintenance engineers who are passionate about supporting the NHS and its people in their vital work and you will play an important role in ensuring a safe and comfortable environment for staff and service users.
Experience Required:

The preferred candidate will have previous experience as a maintenance electrician, ideally this experience will have been gained in an NHS hospital environment, although candidates with strong commercial electrical experience will also be considered (ie experience gained in commercial offices, hotels, education etc).

You will need a level 3 qualification, 18th edition and test and inspection would be beneficial.

If you have the above experience, 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.

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Our application process is very straight forward allowing you to apply with a CV (from your Computer or Dropbox), LinkedIn, Facebook or Google+ and should take no more than a few short minutes.

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Position Subject To:

The successful candidate will be subject to DBS Disclosure and a full UK driving license is required.