Senior Electrician
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- Apr 07, 2024 Post Date
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- 240000C5 Requisition #
Senior Electrician
Salary: £42,840 per annum
Hours: Full time (37 Hours per week)
Contract Type: Open Ended
Location: Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell, Oxfordshire
We are inviting you to join us and to pursue a career in the very work that drove you to be an engineer. At STFC, you will be encouraged to stretch your technical skills while building human understanding and promoting sustainability. Your work will ensure our world-leading scientists and technologists are able to conduct the research needed to improve lives in the UK and far beyond.
Put simply, join us and discover the impact you can make when you’re equipped, encouraged and inspired to perform to your very best.
We are looking to recruit a Senior Electrician within the ISIS Electrical Maintenance Section, which is part of the ISIS Electrical Services Group. Within this role, you will be working closely with the Electrical Maintenance Section Leader, technicians, apprentices and contract staff, maintaining low voltage systems and equipment throughout ISIS.
With the support of your team, you will be responsible for lighting, uninterruptible power supplies, generators and variable speed drives. You will have a demonstrated ability to work safely, on your own or as part of a team. This role requires a logical approach to fault finding, ability to read electrical schematic drawings and be capable of co-ordinating packages of maintenance work.
We are looking for someone with:
- Level 3 electrical engineering apprenticeship or equivalent experience.
- Latest BS7671 IET wiring regulations qualification.
- City & Guilds inspection & testing 2391 or equivalent.
- Proven experience in an electrical maintenance role.
- Health & safety training.
- Strong communication and organisation skills as you will have the responsibility to liaise with scientists and other engineering disciplines.
What we offer
We are offering a permanent position with a whole host of benefits including:
- 30 days holiday (in addition to 10.5 bank holidays and privilege days)
- Flexible working hours.
- An excellent defined average salary pension scheme
- Employee shopping/travel discounts
- Plus many more benefits and wellbeing initiatives that enable our employees to have a great work life balance!
UKRI is an Equal Opportunity & Disability Confident Employer.
We ask some of the biggest questions in the universe, to answer some of the biggest challenges in the world. Together, our scientists, technologists, engineers and business-support team explore the unknown across every field you could think of. They turn what they find into work that changes the world around us.
What could you achieve with the world-leading facilities and experts of one of Europe’s largest research organisations by your side? Join us and discover what’s possible.
About The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
As one of Europe’s largest research organisations, we ask the biggest questions in the universe to find answers that change the world around us. We seek understanding. We’re proud of the impact we make. And we’re committed to helping build a globally competitive, knowledge-based UK economy. Being part of all this means contributing to work that pushes boundaries and creates possibilities. You’ll work with, and learn from, true experts. Whatever your role, you’ll be free to question, and encouraged to share ideas. And, in a positive and supportive culture, you’ll discover just what a difference you can make when you’re equipped and inspired to excel.
We’re a place where curious minds thrive. Not bound by profit, we explore ideas that others don’t, ask questions that others won’t, and discover answers that others are not equipped to find. And, alongside Mars landings and black holes, we also explore diverse, international projects in everything from science and engineering to computing and technology. Whether it’s at the cutting edge or behind the scenes, our work is intellectually challenging. It’s very often ground-breaking. And it’s endlessly, irresistibly fascinating.
For more information about STFC please visit https://stfc.ukri.org/
You can also visit our careers site https://www.stfccareers.co.uk/
About UK Research Innovation (UKRI)
UKRI is an organisation that brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England and Innovate UK. Together, we build an independent organisation with a strong voice and vision ensuring the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation.
Supporting some of the world’s most exciting and challenging research projects, we develop and operate some of the most remarkable scientific facilities in the world. We are pushing the frontiers of human knowledge through fundamental research and delivering benefits for UK society and the economy through world-class research, skills and business-led innovation.
More information can be found at www.ukri.org.
Choosing to come to work at UKRI means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits from a defined benefit pension scheme, excellent holiday entitlement, access to employee shopping/travel discounts and salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. For more details, visit benefits of working for UKRI.
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Disability Confident Employer
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
How to apply
Online applications only preferred for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role. Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered. Assessment will only be based upon the content of your submitted covering letter and CV and not the ‘experience’ section of the application.
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