Electrician South

Contract Type:
Permanent, Full time, 40 hours per week

Salary: £42,000 to £45,500 per annum

Working

Location:

South London, Bexley, Lewisham and Kent

Reporting Office:
Sidcup, London

Persona:
Contractual hours to be worked from various locations such as resident home, estates etc, with ad hoc office attendance as required. Van provided for business use.

Closing Date: 22 nd June at 11pm

Interviews will be held week commencing 29 th June

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.

Benefits

Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution), 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays, Westfield Health Cash Plan, non-contributory life assurance, up to 21 hours volunteering paid days, lifestyle benefits, Employee Assistance Programme and many more.

* Previous Applicants May Not Apply* - (if prior applications were regretted within 12 weeks)

L&Q reserve the right not to progress applications from candidates with 3 or more unsuccessful applications/interview processes with L&Q in the previous 24 months

Join our Electrical team at L&Q -

We are looking for two experienced Electricians to join on a permanent basis. You will work alongside our in house Maintenance team.

This position will work within the following areas:
South London, Bexley, Lewisham and Kent.

This is a rewarding and exciting opportunity to make a difference to our residents’ life and lead the way in delivering a customer centred service. Our Electricians are responsible for ensuring that all they do is with our residents’ satisfaction and best interests in mind.

This role is on the front-line delivering service and has direct impact on L&Q’s reputation; the focus will be high quality work and on first time fix approach. As an L&Q employee you will ensure that you demonstrate our values consistently.

We are focused on meeting targets, both financial and customer related working to time frames and making sure that jobs per day are completed on time and within cost. The team must have a firm knowledge and be ability to actively contribute to ensuring that the Direct Maintenance team’s KPIs are meet.

We are looking for experienced individuals with a good working knowledge in building and/or housing environment, particularly within social housing or local authority experience of working within domestic and or commercial Electrician role.

You will have a good knowledge, understanding and experience of Inspection & testing of electrical installations, including good ability to fault find.

As well as a customer service focus candidate will have a good understanding of the Health and Safety requirements and will act with resident safety in mind.

To be considered for this role it is essential you hold qualifications within one of the following qualification routes:

• Route 1:
  NVQ Level 3 Electrotechnical Apprenticeship or equivalent (must include AM2 where required by the EAS Qualifications Guide)
• Route 2:
  Older Technical or Craft Qualifications* (must include AM2 where required)
• Route 3:
  Experienced Worker Qualification (Maintenance/Installation Electrician)
  * — or —
  ECS Gold Card (Maintenance/Installation Electrician) or equivalent

AM2 is required where specified within the EAS Qualifications Guide.

• Wiring Regulations (Table 4D)

Level 3 Award in the Requirements for Electrical Installations (BS7671:2018)

Please note, it would desirable (not essential) if you hold the following qualification:

• Level 3 Award in the Periodic Inspection, Testing and Certification of in-service Electrical Installations (QCF) or equivalent.

To be considered for this role Candidates will be able to demonstrate and or have:

• Maintenance experience preferably gained within Social Housing or a similar environment.
• Excellent customer service with proven track record in delivering service to internal and external customers
• Good knowledge and understanding of Health and Safety
• Ability to work in a pressured environment under strict time constraints
• Experience with completing electrical certification, including periodic inspections & testing.
• Full driving licence
• Your own hand tools (larger…