Electrician

Vacancy: Electrician (38,220 - 40,131)

Are you a skilled and experienced electrician looking to take the next step in your career? Do you have a passion for leadership and a track record of excellence in your trade? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

Position Overview: We are seeking a skilled electrician with a minimum of two years' experience to join our team. In this role, you will start your career working towards becoming a Qualified NICEIC QS, within a leadership position supporting the existing Senior QS.

Your working week will be balanced with time both delivering repairs and installations, and time spent completing your personal training and undertaking inspections/administration tasks. You will utilise your expertise to oversee and guide the electrical team and develop your leadership skills.

Your fundamental responsibility lies with the quality and compliance of the day-to-day work of the business.

Key responsibilities:

• Attain NICIEC Qualified Supervisor (QS) status with support from the senior QS and the team.
• Ensure results of the verification process are accurately recorded on the appropriate certificates or inspection reports.
• Undertake supervisory duties of employed persons & sub-contractors to ensure they are competent and adequately supervised.
• Have adequate knowledge, experience and understanding of the design, construction, maintenance, verification and/or inspection and testing procedures for electrical work.
• Have adequate knowledge of applicable Building Regulations and Standards where relevant.
• Support QS on training and CPD activities.
• Stand in for QS when they are on annual leave (e.g., for more than a couple of days).

Qualifications: The main criteria that you need to apply for this role is Level 3 NVQ in Electrotechnical Services - Electrical Installation (Building and Structures) AM2 certificate, 18th Edition, Level 3 Award in Initial and Periodic Inspection and Testing of Electrical Installations.

If you don’t have all the desired qualifications, Metworks can provide some training assistance for the right candidate to help you attain these. Please note that salary offered will be 38,220 until the required qualifications are complete, at which point it will increase to 40,131.

Would you like to work for a company that offers 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, a healthcare cash plan, matched pension contribution scheme and cashback on purchases from some of the country’s biggest retailers? A company that can also offer you full uniform and all required PPE, the latest handheld technology, Company vehicle and fuel card plus access to regular employee forums and feedback groups? Then please read on.

About Us:

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has a vision that ‘everyone has a home and the opportunity to live well’ and has been providing affordable housing and care support in the UK for over 65 years. Metworks is the in-house repairs and maintenance team involved in delivering repairs and planned improvements where needed to approximately 60,000 homes. The role will be working across our 10,500 homes throughout the East Midlands.

What you need to do now:

We encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity. Take a look at the attached Job Description for more details and if it’s the ideal job for you, apply via our Careers.

Interviews will be on Tuesday 14th January at House Beeston Nottingham NG9 1LA.

To discuss the position in more detail please speak to our QS Simon Pounder on (phone number removed).

To meet our commitment to providing safe, high quality services to our customers, we will complete a standard background check with the Disclosure and Barring service, once an offer of employment is made. As standard, you will be added to the DBS updating service with a new check being carried out on a 3 yearly basis. The cost of a DBS will be paid for by the organisation.

Please note: we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What’s in it for you?

Our benefits include:

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year.
• 2 volunteering days per year for community support.
• An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year for an extra day off.
• Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave.
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%.
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year.
• Life assurance cover 3 x your salary.
• Cycle2work scheme.
• Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department.
• Health cash plan scheme for everyday healthcare needs which you can add family members to.
• Tenancy deposit - interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season ticket loan.
• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform.
• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages to keep up to date with organisational activity and link with colleagues.
• Career progression across the organisation with mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support.
• Employee Assistance Programme - We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation.

About us:

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document.

Our promise:

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH), we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively - 'Serving people better every day' - to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and others’ wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we’re doing well and recommend improvements. Our Network groups include:

• Gender
• Ethnicity
• LGBTQ+
• Disability

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people-focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found, so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.