Locations: Inverness, Forres, Nairn
Closing Date: 19.12.2024
Why This Job Matters
* Start Your Career: This technician role is ideal for those new to the field or considering a career change. It offers a valuable entry-level traineeship in electronics and/or radio engineering.
* Varied Experience: You’ll engage in diverse tasks, from installing fibre cabling to maintaining 2G to 5G radio equipment. This ensures a broad range of experiences and skills, making each day unique.
* Make an Impact: As a technician, you’ll play a crucial role in ensuring reliable connectivity for businesses and residential customers, significantly impacting people’s daily lives.
* Inclusive Workplace: We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. We value diversity and strive to make our team an amazing place for all.
* Grow with Us: The role offers continuous learning and development opportunities. With support from senior engineers, you’ll focus on personal growth and upskilling, driving your own performance and career progression.
What You'll Be Doing
* Leading by Example: Uphold and embody the Field Engineering and BT values, coaching and supporting new team members, and setting a positive example throughout your career.
* Ownership and Support: Take responsibility for designated patches and sites, contributing to area, regional, and unit objectives, and working efficiently with the support of senior colleagues.
* Prioritising Work: Execute prioritised tasks in alignment with team and unit priorities, coordinating with patch managers and senior colleagues to ensure effective workflow.
* Health and Safety: Conduct thorough risk assessments for health and safety, ensuring all work is carried out with full regard for safety protocols.
* Proactive Development: Understand expectations, proactively seek opportunities to enhance your skills, and support the team’s work by continuously improving processes.
* Compliance and Presentation: Monitor and meet all compliance requirements, including health surveillance if needed, and maintain a professional appearance by wearing provided corporate clothing.
The Skills and Experience You'll Need
* Physical Requirements: You must be able to fulfil the physical demands of the role, including bending, stretching, kneeling, crouching, climbing, and working at various heights and levels. This includes lifting heavy drums/cables and recognising coloured wiring.
* Full UK Driving Licence: A full UK driving licence is essential for this role.
* Self-Starter: You should be proactive, using your initiative to drive actions for yourself and the wider team.
* Ownership: Demonstrate the ability to take responsibility for tasks, activities, and resources, working collaboratively with the team to understand and meet unit priorities.
* Communication Skills: Communicate clearly and precisely through various methods in any situation or location.
* Problem-Solving Skills: Effectively address and resolve a variety of issues, implementing solutions as needed.
Benefits
* 22 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
* BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
* Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.
* Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages BT TV, including TNT Sports and NOW entertainment
About us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.
A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.
DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?
Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.