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About the role

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We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a qualified Electrician to join our forward-thinking Housing Property Services team.

Essential Qualifications:

• City & Guilds 2360 Parts 1 & 2 (or equivalent)
• City & Guilds 2382 – 18th Edition
• City & Guilds 2391 Test & Inspection (or equivalent)

About the Role:

This is a varied and rewarding position where you will play a vital role in ensuring our homes and corporate buildings remain safe, compliant, and operating efficiently.

Working closely with a dedicated Repairs Officer, you will undertake a wide range of electrical work—from responsive maintenance to improvement and upgrade projects—delivering a high-quality and reliable service to our residents.

Your expertise will directly contribute to improving our housing stock and supporting our commitment to service excellence.

What will you be doing?

The purpose of the post is to provide operational housing maintenance services to enable the continuing improvement of the service to the Council’s housing stock and corporate properties. Under the direction of designated Repairs Officer, the post holder will undertake variety of electrical work as required in accordance with works orders.

Duties will include:

To carry out maintenance and repair works as per works order specification

To undertake individual or joint electrical installation and maintenance tasks within the allocated area of work. All to be carried out in accordance with the current RAMS/SSOW.

To complete reports/certification, order materials and or request follow on work on mobile devices.

To work either individually or as part of the team on the following types as required at any given time:

• Responsive/Emergency Service
• Routine Service/Maintenance/Testing and Inspection
• Planned Installation and Remedial Work
• Void Works 5.

To complete works orders regarding schedule of rates.

To comply with requirements relating to vehicle maintenance (e.g. vehicle cleaning and maintaining fluid levels) and completion of associated paperwork.

To comply with the Council’s asbestos related responsibilities, including commitment to training, maintaining competency.

Attend team briefings and training as required.

To comply with safe working practices and adhere to the council’s Health and Safety policy. To ensure that all essential PPE and tools are maintained and used in an appropriate manner.

Special features of the post

• It is essential that the post holder participate in a call out rota for out of hours’ work when required.
• The post holder must hold a full current driving licence.

About you

For this role you will need:

City and Guilds 2360 Parts 1&2 or equivalent

City and Guilds 2382 18th Edition.

City and Guilds 2391 Test & Inspection or equivalent

Willing to undertake CAT B asbestos training

Practical experience of electrical inspection and testing Willing to undertake training as and when required to cover changes in regulation and legislation.

Spoken English fluency and numerate

Good interpersonal skills

Health and safety aware

Willing to undertake training

Ability to use electronic devices

Ability to demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behaviour, physical, social and welfare needs.

Be willing to participate in out of hours call out. Hold a valid driving licence

Our Benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

a competitive salary

a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.

lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council

generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days

hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused

Respectful

Efficient

Supportive

Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

Armed Forces Community

The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)