Electrical Services Engineer in Cheltenham

As an Engineer within the Property Services Data Centre team, you’ll be required to complete planned and reactive maintenance tasks and will be expected to complete regular scenario testing to ensure you’re trained and able to respond to site technical issues should they occur. You will be expected to accept on-call duties, alongside High Voltage authorised person duties, which we provide training for. Our Data Centre maintenance team work alongside other Nationwide colleagues and suppliers, including IT stakeholders, within the Data Centre.

This role is primarily based within our Data Centre in Swindon, at Hillmead Drive, Swindon, Wiltshire SN5 5NZ, with travel expenses paid for any work-related travel outside Swindon. This position will include you joining an on-call rota which is 1 week in 4. Whilst on call, you will need to be able to get to Swindon Technology Data Centre within 30 minutes to meet critical SLAs.

The extras you’ll get include:

• 25 days holiday, pro rata
• Access to private medical insurance
• A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement
• Access to an annual performance-related bonus
• Training and development to help you progress your career
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the event of your death
• Wellhub – access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year

A typical day within this job role would involve proactive maintenance duties and reactive maintenance tasks. You’ll work closely with your fellow maintenance team members and specialist maintenance supply partners and will help with basic maintenance administration (working with and contributing to health and safety documentation, site escorting of visitors, etc). Within the first 6 months of your employment, you will be supported to become technically familiarised with our Swindon Data Centre. Once this understanding has been assessed and validated, on-call duties will be incorporated into the job role.

As a minimum, you will have:

• A level 3 (or better) qualification in a relevant engineering maintenance and/or installation discipline (or equivalent)
• Relevant Building Services Engineering experience e.g. apprentice qualified and a solid background of practical experience as a qualified engineer
• Demonstrable knowledge of Microsoft Operating systems and Building Management Systems
• Experience in the maintenance of ‘environmental’ equipment, including HVAC, UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply), generators, fire alarm systems
• Experience in Critical Engineering activity and working well within a team
• The ability to provide advice as a technical specialist

Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display, in every role:

• Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers’ shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind
• Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think – we’re honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand
• Push for better - We don’t settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development
• Get it done - We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.