King's College London

About us:

Responsible for undertaking planned preventative and reactive maintenance throughout College buildings, whilst ensuring adherence to operational, regulatory and statutory compliance requirements. Ensuring records of planned and reactive maintenance are kept up to date and to a high standard.

The role will liaise with specialist contractors and other building dedicated engineers to maintain high quality service delivery and maximum system uptime. The Electrical Technician will ensure teams and clients (where applicable) are kept up to date on progress.

The Electrical Technician will be expected to optimise and analyse performance, whilst problem solving and offering creative solutions.

This role comes with excellent benefits, including but not limited to:

• Generous annual leave allowance
• Range of opportunities for professional learning and development
• Excellent pension scheme

About the role:

• Develop a complete familiarity with the operation and recovery of all business-critical systems within the building portfolio.  
• Carry out planned preventative maintenance and report faults and ensure compliance with all relevant guidelines, statutory acts and regulations. Update site-specific work schedules and re-programme regularly. 
• Maintain a Safe Systems of Work process and periodically update as may be required. 
• Manage and conduct fault finding. 
• Conduct statutory system and asset testing and report accordingly. 
• Deal responsibly with emergencies and breakdowns.  
• Deliver and comply with all statutory, client specific environmental, health, safety and quality standards applicable to the College environment. 
• Minimise the risk of plant failure and breakdown and promote a reliability centred and conditioned based proactive maintenance process. 
• Required to participate in a rostered 24 hour on-call system providing emergency service during non-working hours, at weekends and bank holidays. 
• To undertake training and qualify as Authorised / Responsible / Competent Person as required. 
• To undertake such other duties appropriate to the level and character of work as may reasonably be required within the Department.  
• You will be expected to deliver a high level of customer focused service and participate in training when required (Fit for King’s, etc). 

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post. 

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract

This is a full-time post

About you: 

Essential criteria

1. Level 3 award/certificate in electrical field or equivalent or time serviced apprenticeship (Electrical) and strong, demonstrable competencies in electrical trades
2. Good knowledge of engineering designs, installations, maintenance and repairs
3. Good understanding and experience of meeting health and safety obligations regarding maintenance activities
4. Good communicator including good verbal communication
5. Ability to work from an iPad to manage work through our CAFM system
6. IT literate (Excel, Teams and other Microsoft packages)
7. Team player and flexible attitude
8. Excellent customer service skills with the ability to offer guidance on requests
9. Ability to use, repair and maintain tools
10. Pay attention to detail and strong problem solving skills

Desirable criteria

1. IOSH Managing Safely
2. First Aid course
3. Knowledge and understanding of working in critical environments
4. City and Guilds 2391 Inspection and Testing

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.