Electrician

Location

Lowestoft, Suffolk | United Kingdom

Job description

• East Suffolk Council, Lowestoft NR33 0EQ
• £33,024 - £35,745 per annum (Band 6)
• 37 hours per week
• Permanent

East Suffolk Council is an exciting place to work, delivering essential local services and making a real difference to a quarter of a million people across East Suffolk.

We currently have an opportunity to join East Suffolk Council's Building Maintenance Team as an Electrician.

Your role:

You will work within the Council’s housing maintenance team delivering excellent services to tenants of the council and private customers. Your role is required to carry out a wide range of electrical tasks including rewiring and testing works, all to NICEIC rules and IEE electrical wiring regulations BS:7671 - 18th Edition (including amendments) and to required contract standard.

You will also be required to take part in our emergency out of hours team on a rota basis .

What you will need:

You will have experience with general building and domestic maintenance work along with inspection, fault finding and testing of domestic properties. You will be fully conversant with all aspects of electrical works in both 230v and 400c along with competent knowledge of relevant health and safety requirements and the ability to highlight potential hazards.

Why work for us?

East Suffolk Council is a great place to work and there are lots of benefits our employees can access. To find out more about why we are so proud of East Suffolk Council, take a look at our video and hear why our employees think it is such a great place to work (YouTube) .

Here are some of the main benefits:

• Generous leave entitlement (equivalent to 25 days a year, increasing to 31 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays)
• Local government pension scheme
• Flexible working arrangements
• Learning and development tailored to your role
• A wide variety of staff support networks including access to health and wellbeing initiatives and programmes.
• Discounts on mobile phones, computers, holiday and travel, fashion and clothing, health and beauty and many other products and services.

Find more information about what we offer in our benefits brochure (pdf) .

The majority of our teams are working in an agile way, with a mixture of home and office working, depending on individual preferences and service requirements. If you wish to discuss how that might impact your working arrangements if you were the successful candidate, please contact the recruiting manager listed at the bottom of this advert.

For more information

Should you wish to discuss this post further please contact [email protected]

Closing date: 11.30am, 22 March 2024.
Interview date: week commencing 8 April 2024.

How to apply

Step 1 - Read the advert and the Job Description and Person Specification .

Step 2 - Complete the Supporting Statement template (docx) . Your statement needs to indicate how you meet each of the criteria contained within the Person Specification. Please use the template provided (other formats will not be accepted).

Step 3 - Complete the online application and upload your statement. Please note, CVs are not accepted.

Job tags

Salary

£33.02k - £35.75k per annum