Electrician (Permanent)

Job Title: Electrician

Location: Head Office in Romford

Salary: Competitive + Company Van

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 08:00 am to 17:00 pm, and flexibility with working hours is essential as overtime will be required from time to time

Aston Group is a leading Building Services and Facilities Management company for commercial and residential clients. We are an established, family run, privately owned business that has been setting standards for efficiency, innovation, and quality since 1964. Celebrating 60 years of service excellence.

The Role:

As our Electrician, you will be responsible for undertaking electrical installations and maintain electronic and electrical systems. As well as install, inspect and test equipment, making sure that electrotechnical systems are functioning correctly and according to regulations.

You will be expected to:

• Diagnose malfunctioning systems, apparatus, and components, using test equipment and hand tools, to locate the cause of a breakdown and correct the problem.
• To assemble, install, test, and maintain electrical wiring, equipment, appliances, apparatus, and fixtures using hand tools, power tools and other specialist equipment.
• Training apprentice electricians.
• Ensuring that a high standard of safe working practices is always maintained.
• Connect wires to circuit breakers, transformers, or other components.
• Inspect electrical systems, equipment, and components to identify hazards, defects, and the need for adjustment or repair, and to ensure compliance with codes.
• Advise management on whether continued operation of equipment could be hazardous.
• Test electrical systems and continuity of circuits in electrical wiring, equipment, and fixtures, using testing devices such as ohmmeters, voltmeters, and oscilloscopes, to ensure compatibility and safety of system.
• Liaise with all stakeholders and contractors as required to ensure a high-quality service is delivered and a high level of customer satisfaction is achieved.
• Responsible for the delivery of planned commitments to the client, ensuring agreed KPI's and service levels are being met.
• To undertake tasks as necessary to ensure the achievement of the project.

The Candidate:

To be considered for our Electrician role, you will have the following skills and experience:

Qualifications:

• Level Three Electrical Qualification
• 18th Edition Regulations
• IT literate
• Must hold ECS or CSCS card
• Full clean driving licence
• Desirable - 2391 Testing Certificate
• Desirable - Asbestos awareness
• Desirable - IPAF & PASMA

Experience:

• Minimum three years' experience working as an electrician
• Minimum one-year experience of working within the social housing sector

Skills/Knowledge:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, negotiation, and persuasion skills, including the ability to weigh up and articulate the risk and benefit of various scenarios and propose effective resolutions
• The ability to follow technical drawings, building plans and wiring diagrams
• Strong analytical, numeracy and literacy skills
• The ability to work carefully, methodically, and safely
• A head for heights and willingness to work in all sorts of weather
• A willingness to work in confined spaces excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Personal Attributes and Behaviours:

• A flexible approach
• The ability to establish and maintain effective, professional working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• To be able to prioritise workload to meet deadlines
• To be able to work as part of a team
• The ability to demonstrate a high degree of integrity, discretion, diplomacy commensurate with the nature of the post

Benefits:

• Company van, fuel card, PDA, uniform, and PPE
• 22 days holiday per year in addition to holidays and birthday off after one year of service
• Pension with 4% salary sacrifice scheme and employer contribution
• Death In Service benefit of 4x salary

If you feel you have the skills for this role, please click APPLY now!

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