Maintenance Electrician in Watford

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance Electrician to join our highly regarded repairs and maintenance team in Hertfordshire. This role is based at Hertford Hospital and will provide you with the opportunity to take on some supervisory duties, whilst still maintaining an active role within your trade.

Rydon Maintenance Ltd provides a range of hard facilities management and property maintenance services to a variety of clients, predominantly domestic property and commercial buildings in the social housing, health and social care sectors. Our expertise ranges from the construction of substantial community hospitals to our current provision of maintenance services to over 300 buildings for 20 Trusts.

Job Purpose

This Maintenance Electrician role is varied and involves a mix of supervisory duties whilst still undertaking some of your own multi-skilled repairs. The role is a key part of our team and allows you to develop your career in a supervisory role, whilst still remaining actively involved in a skilled trade.

Key duties will include:

• Planned Maintenance: Emergency light testing, fire alarm checks, and scheduled PPM tasks.
• Reactive and remedial Electrical works: Fault-finding and repairs for lighting, power issues, replacing lamps, lights, pumps, motors, and conducting 2nd-fix tasks such as sockets and switches and general electrical problems.
• Assisting with other trades and completing other general building fabric repairs.
• Supervise any subcontractors coming onto site and assist with conducting sub-contractor inductions.
• Issue and manage Permits to Work where necessary.
• Participate in the call-out rota to provide out-of-hours support.
• Where requested, undertake workmanship checks and assist the Service Manager with health & safety audits.
• Managing stock of spares and consumables on site.

Our repairs team delivers a first-class repairs service in partnership with a range of NHS Trusts. We provide reactive and planned maintenance to a number of NHS buildings and we work to strict timescales and safety requirements to ensure the comfort and safety of service users using these NHS facilities.

What we can offer you:

• Competitive starting salary.
• A full time permanent position. Normal working hours are 8am to 5:00pm Monday to Friday. You will also participate in an on call rota for emergency repairs where you will receive a standby allowance and overtime rates.
• 25 days holiday with the ability to increase up to 30 days.
• Access to an employee discount scheme which includes a wide-range of special offers and discounts on insurances, lifestyle goods and services.
• Company pension, life assurance and income protection.
• Flexible benefits for you to choose from including Critical Illness, DenPlan and more.
• Health and wellness benefits such as free flu vaccinations, access to an Employee Assistance and Wellbeing Programme, BUPA Health & Wellbeing Plans, access to our Health and Wellbeing portal with an extensive range of advice and resources.
• Opportunities to progress your career across the business.
• Full training, ongoing coaching and support.

By joining Rydon, you become part of a talented, dedicated team and this is an exciting and varied role with an excellent opportunity to develop and grow within our highly regarded team.

Experience Required

• You will hold electrical qualifications and have 18th Edition certification. Testing and inspection qualification is desirable but not essential.
• You can demonstrate previous experience of working within a multi-skilled trade role.
• Your maintenance experience might have been gained working directly for the NHS, or a maintenance contractor providing services within the NHS although not essential and candidates with experience of maintaining other commercial properties (schools, prisons, supermarkets for example) will be considered.
• A full UK driving licence.
• The preferred candidate will have a good understanding of Microsoft packages such as Outlook, Word and Excel (basic), strong people skills, great attention to detail and be looking for an opportunity that combines supervisory duties whilst still maintaining an active role within a skilled trade.

If you have this experience we would strongly encourage you to apply.

Additional Information

As a well established, progressive company we are committed to attracting and retaining individuals by offering an excellent benefits package that includes a wide range of core and voluntary benefits. Rydon is an equal opportunities employer and promotes diversity in employment. Successful candidates will be selected solely on their ability to carry out the duties of the post.