Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
Play a key role in delivering work projects which aid the climate emergency and carbon reduction within our estate.
Our Estates and Building Service is a professional, multi-disciplinary service, offering a varied workload and an array of opportunities to develop a rewarding career. We have a large and diverse portfolio of property including listed buildings & scheduled monuments, educational buildings and leisure facilities to name a few.
Join us to bring innovative solutions to enable the delivery of sustainable high-quality projects and maintenance across the estate and manage budgets and programmes. You’ll be key to achieving our goal of providing well maintained, compliant buildings across the estate.
This is a full-time, permanent post working 37 hours per week from Monday to Friday. On occasion you may be required to work evenings to attend meetings or site visits. Based at City Hall, you’ll have the flexibility to work from home or on-site. However, you’ll be required to travel to construction locations in and around Leicestershire.
What you’ll be doing
Working as part of the Hard FM Maintenance team, you’ll provide technical advice, support and management of electrical systems across the property portfolio. Identifying opportunities for innovation in relation to sustainability, you’ll be designing and implementing systems of maintenance, monitoring and testing for the management of electrical services across the property asset list. You’ll lead on electrical construction projects that differ in size and complexity for our internal and external clients. Liaising with stakeholders including internal colleagues, clients, contractors as well as regulatory bodies, you’ll oversee projects from inception through to completion, handover and associated ongoing maintenance, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.
What you’ll need
You’ll have substantial experience in both the installation and maintenance of Commercial Electrical systems, Life safety systems, security systems, Door entry and Intercom systems. You’ll have substantial experience of managing maintenance programmes that deliver the highest standards in terms of time, cost, and quality. With excellent people skills, you’ll be able to present to and engage with a variety of audiences, persuading and motivating others to meet objectives including having the confidence to challenge performance when needed. You’ll have the drive and ambition to research modern technologies within your specialist area. You’ll be able to monitor outcome and input-based specifications including KPI data validation. Using strong analytical skills, you’ll be able to review costings, and together with your detailed technical knowledge of Hard FM legislation, deliver best practice.
Ideally, you’ll have completed both a full electrical apprenticeship and hold C&G 236 Parts 1 & 2 or equivalent and C&G 2391 or equivalent advanced inspection and testing.
It is essential that you hold a full UK driving licence and are willing and able to travel frequently between locations transporting necessary equipment.
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
Join us
We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
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