Maintenance Electrician

We now have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Maintenance Electrician to join our NHS Maintenance team at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup. Rydon is a successful construction, development, maintenance, investment and management group operating throughout England, predominantly in London and the southern counties.

Rydon Maintenance is an expanding division of the Rydon Group and is successfully providing facilities management services to a variety of clients, predominantly within the healthcare and housing association sectors.

The Rydon group operates throughout England, predominantly in London and the southern counties. We are a dynamic, multi-talented organisation, working across a wide range of construction market sectors within the built environment. Rydon has established a strong reputation for the quality within our new-build and maintenance sectors, creating and improving communities for the benefit of current and future generations. For over 40 years, we've recruited talented and innovative people to build and maintain homes, schools, hospitals, student accommodation and more. We combine a personal touch with outstanding technical expertise to deliver award-winning, quality facilities for local communities with a commitment from people who are passionate about what they do.

Job Purpose

We now have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Maintenance Electrician to join our NHS Maintenance team at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup. This team which delivers a first-class repairs service in partnership with this large Acute NHS Trust.

This is a mobile position where you will be working as part of a highly skilled maintenance team (consisting of mechanical, electrical and multi skilled maintenance operatives). This team are responsible for ensuring that jobs completed meet the desired quality and customer service standards. You will be responsible for planned, preventative and responsive maintenance to ensure that this busy hospital environment is operational at all times.

The types of work involve commercial electrical repairs, maintenance and installation. This could involve work with circuit breakers, controls, fuses, lights, motors and more. You will also be involved with completing PPM's (planned preventative maintenance) such as emergency lighting testing. 

Normal working hours are 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday. You will also participate in an on-call rota system (which offers the opportunity to increase your earnings and be involved in additional urgent repairs).

What we can offer you;

A competitive starting salary

Company van + Fuel card

Holiday Entitlement: 25 days per annum

Holiday Purchase Scheme: Buy up to an additional 5 days holiday

Pension Scheme: 4% contributory.

On call allowance and overtime rates paid per call out.

Health Cash Plan: helping you spread the cost of essential healthcare

24/7 EAP Service: free advice, counselling and support for you and your family whenever you need it.

Wellbeing and mental health champions readily available at work.

Access to an employee discount scheme which includes a wide-range of special offers and discounts on insurances, lifestyle goods and services.

Flexible benefits for you to choose from including Critical Illness, DenPlan and Cycle to work schemes.

Employee Referral Scheme: recommend a personal connection to us and claim a cash reward for their successful hire.

Eye Care Vouchers

Opportunities for you to progress your career across the business

Experience Required

The successful candidate will have previous experience gained as a maintenance electrician. This experience will ideally have been gained in an NHS hospital environment, though candidates with strong commercial electrical experience will also be considered (ie experience gained in commercial offices, hotels, education etc). The ideal candidate will hold an NVQ or City and Guilds qualification Level 3 for electrical installations, 18th edition and 2391 or 2394 & 2395 for inspection & testing would be desirable.

If you are a qualified electrician, have great people skills and are passionate about delivering excellent quality electrical planned, preventative and responsive maintenance then 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.

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