As a PAT Tester at RNAS Yeovilton, you'll help ensure electrical equipment remains safe, compliant, and ready to support critical Royal Navy operations. Your work will directly contribute to operational readiness, safety, and the effective delivery of essential support services across RNAS Yeovilton and associated sites.
From engineering workshops and operational facilities to offices and accommodation blocks, your expertise will help create a safer environment for colleagues and customers alike. By maintaining high standards of compliance and supporting continuous improvement, you'll play an important role in delivering services that have a positive impact and support a trusted future for Defence operations.
What you'll do as a PAT Tester
- Carry out formal visual inspections and Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) of electrical equipment across designated operational, engineering, office, and accommodation environments.
- Maintain accurate asset registers, testing records, certification documentation, and audit evidence.
- Identify defective or unsafe equipment and ensure appropriate quarantine, reporting, disposal, or repair actions are taken.
- Undertake authorised minor repairs to portable appliances, plugs, cables, and electrical connections where competent to do so.
- Coordinate testing schedules with customer units and support the management of PAT booking requests.
- Support audits, assurance activities, compliance inspections, and safety reporting processes while maintaining high standards of health, safety, quality, and environmental compliance.
Hold a recognised PAT Testing qualification, such as City and Guilds 2377 or equivalent.
- Have experience carrying out PAT inspections and testing within a regulated engineering, defence, aviation, or industrial environment.
- Understand electrical safety legislation, safe systems of work, and risk assessment processes.
- Can maintain accurate electronic records and confidently use computer-based asset management systems and Microsoft Office applications.
- Have strong communication skills and can build trusted relationships with customers, colleagues, and stakeholders while delivering work to agreed timescales.
28 days' holiday plus bank holidays
- Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
- Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships (we currently offer over 60 different apprenticeships), mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression.
- Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service
- Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel
- Paid volunteering day, tax-free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity
- Our employee networks support connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging. They represent and empower all our colleagues including veterans, LGBTQIA+ employees, women, parents and carers, people with disabilities, and people from all cultural backgrounds.
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PAT Tester employer: Serco Group Plc
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