Electrician - Maintenance/Installer

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

Salary: £43,000 - £46,500 per annum (based on qualifications & experience)

Grade: DM Tech 05

Working Location: North East - Waltham Forest, Redbridge and Havering

Mobile Based Worker: contractual hours to be worked from various locations such as resident home, estates etc, with ad hoc office attendance as required

Closing Date: Friday 12th at 9am

Interviews - TBC

Benefits include: 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.

We are looking for an experienced Electrician to join our in-house Maintenance team covering our North East neighbourhood. 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. As an L&Q employee you will ensure that you demonstrate our values consistently.

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. 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 able to actively contribute to ensuring that the Direct Maintenance team’s KPIs are met.

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, candidates 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, candidates must hold recognised qualifications in the following areas:

• Core Technical Competence – All Electrical Works (EAS Table 4C)

Applicants must meet one of the following routes:

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

Wiring Regulations (EAS Table 4D):

• Level 3 Award in the Requirements for Electrical Installations (BS 7671:2018)

Desirable Qualifications:

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

What you'll bring:

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.

Candidates are required to have own hand tools (larger tools and specialist equipment will be arranged if needed).

About L&Q: We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness and security. Everyone deserves a quality home that gives them the chance to live a better life. 250,000 people call our properties ‘home’, and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East and North West of England. People are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate Values and Strategy Behaviours, which outlines our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and all levels, when representing L&Q. At L&Q, we know that diversity and inclusion make us stronger – and they’re at the heart of everything we do. When we recruit, we look at what really matters: your skills, experience, and potential. We’re proud to be recognised for creating an inclusive workplace. We’re a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3) and we’ve introduced our own Recruitment Advocate scheme to make sure every step of our hiring process is fair, transparent, and consistent. It’s all part of our commitment to ending discrimination and making L&Q a place where everyone feels welcome. Sustainability is also at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK’s largest housing associations.