Reactive Maintenance Electrician
Sub Division: Defence
Location: Bicester
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time - 40 hours - Monday to Friday
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Purpose of Role
We are seeking a skilled Reactive Maintenance Electrician to join our facilities maintenance team, delivering planned and reactive electrical maintenance across a secure defence site in Bicester.
Job Description
Working across a varied estate of operational and support buildings, you'll play a key role in ensuring all electrical systems remain safe, compliant, and fully operational. This is a diverse role where no two days are the same, with responsibilities spanning electrical maintenance, fault finding, compliance, and supporting the wider engineering team. As part of the role, you will also support the maintenance of a large on-site swimming pool. Full specialist training will be provided, with all associated course costs covered by the business.
Responsibilities
- Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive electrical repairs across the site.
- Diagnose faults and carry out testing, inspection, maintenance, and repair of electrical systems.
- Complete emergency lighting inspections, testing, and remedial works.
- Inspect, maintain, and repair distribution boards, sockets, switches, lighting circuits, and associated equipment.
- Undertake minor rewiring and electrical compliance works.
- Support with minor mechanical, plumbing, and fabric maintenance as part of a multi-skilled facilities team (approximately 20% of the role).
- Assist with the routine maintenance of the site's swimming pool following completion of specialist training.
- Accurately complete maintenance records, compliance documentation, and CAFM updates.
Essential Qualifications/Skills
- Fully qualified Electrician with NVQ Level 3, 18th Edition, and a valid ECS Gold Card (essential).
- Comfortable attending a compulsory specialist training course covering swimming pool maintenance, fully funded by the employer.
- Eligible for BPSS and Security Clearance (SC), having lived and worked in the UK for the past five years.
- Previous experience within commercial building maintenance or facilities management environments.
- Strong fault-finding, testing, inspection, and reactive maintenance skills.
- Good understanding of statutory compliance and maintenance documentation.
- Full UK Driving Licence (maximum six penalty points and no drink driving convictions).
In return for your hard work we offer additional training and development, 26 days holiday (+ bank holidays), generous pension contribution, life assurance and much more.
We are VINCI Facilities – experts in the built environment. VINCI Facilities is a Facilities Management and Building Solutions provider, delivering cost-effective and sustainable bespoke solutions to customers in the public and private sectors. We are committed to working towards a lower carbon society, focusing on sustainable and innovative methods to exceed our partners' goals and add value for all stakeholders – and we were named the top-ranked FM service provider in the Sustainable FM Index for 2020. We put our people first. Always working as a team and collaborating from start to finish. We are the trusted expert in the built environment because we listen to our team and create a workplace that maximises their potential.
Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR) at VINCI Facilities is about recognising and celebrating each other’s differences and what they bring to the team. Harnessing this diversity and applying the experiences, abilities and unique qualities of individuals will enhance our business; therefore, we commit to equity of opportunity and fair treatment of all current and potential employees and encourage job applications from all.
Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.
VINCI recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles which include working from home to enable employees to balance their working life with other priorities.
Work Location: In person
