Electrician Testing and Compliance

We are recruiting for experienced and enthusiastic electricians to join our Housing Repairs and Maintenance Team

Do you want to be part of our Electrical Testing and Compliance Team, ensuring Brighton and Hove City Council Housings electrical installations meet the requirements of the Wiring Regulations? Do you want to focus on your trade and not sourcing materials, writing quotes or chasing customers for payment? Do you have a full drivers licence? Do you have a City and Guilds level 3 or equivalent in Electrical Installations?

If so, we'd welcome your application to work within our busy Housing Repairs and Maintenance Service.

For an informal discussion, please contact John Mc Namara
- Electrical Testing and Compliance Supervisor John.

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You will carry out high-standard electrical upgrades and testing both in our residents' homes and in communal areas. Delivering high customer service and meeting all safety, quality and cost control standards.

You will mainly be working in occupied properties within the Brighton and Hove area either on your own or in a small team. The key tasks will be:

• Upgrading electrical installations in both communal and domestic settings to ensure they meet the requirements of the Wiring Regulations
• Testing electrical installations in both communal and domestic settings producing certification as necessary (including EIC's, EICRs etc.)
• Detecting, locating and diagnosing faults
• Rewiring circuits or full installations as necessary
• Working with asbestos (you will be fully trained and equipped to work on non notifiable non licenced asbestos)
• Installing full smoke detection and gateway system
• Producing Smoke Detection certification

Our residents come from a variety of backgrounds, you will need to be positive about interacting with and serving our diverse community.

Our team members say they enjoy working in Housing Repairs because "Every day is completely different, we really get a chance to help people from the local community and it feels great to have made a difference at the end of the day".

• A standard working week of 37 hours per week plus 5.5 hours of contracted overtime (Monday
  - Friday 08.00 - 17.00). Part-time hours are available.
• The opportunity to take on additional call out shifts if available
• A full induction with job shadowing in your first week and on-going development
• Your own allocated fleet vehicle for work use
• Paid annual leave
• Pension scheme

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds.

In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce ().

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.