Maintenance Electrician
Sub Division: Defence
Location: Witney
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time - 40 hours - Monday to Friday
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Purpose of Role
We are seeking a Reactive Maintenance Electrician to provide reactive and planned electrical maintenance across RAF Brize Norton. This role is critical in ensuring the safe, reliable, and compliant operation of a wide range of facilities across the airbase.
Job Description
You will work across diverse environments including: hangars, aircraft maintenance workshops, office blocks, accommodation, control rooms, storage facilities, canteens, and perimeter/utility buildings. Your work ensures that all electrical systems operate safely and efficiently in a high-security, operationally active environment.
Responsibilities
- Carry out electrical PPM and reactive maintenance across base facilities.
- Fault-finding, testing, inspection, and repair of a wide range of electrical systems.
- Perform emergency lighting testing and remedial works.
- Inspect and repair distribution boards, sockets, switches, and lighting systems.
- Conduct PAT testing and small installation works.
- Undertake minor rewiring and general electrical compliance tasks.
- Source materials/parts to complete repairs and remedial jobs.
- Support with minor mechanical, plumbing, and fabric repairs as part of a multi-skilled FM team (accounts for 20% of work)
- Accurately complete job sheets, compliance documentation, and CAFM updates in a timely manner.
Essential Qualifications/Skills
- Fully qualified Electrician – ECS Gold Card (essential), NVQ Level 3, and 18th Edition.
- Proven experience in commercial or facilities maintenance environments (FM background preferred).
- Strong fault-finding, testing, and reactive repair capability.
- Comfortable working in a secure, operational environment around aircraft, workshops, and public/office spaces.
- Good understanding of compliance processes and accurate maintenance paperwork.
- Full UK Driver’s License (maximum 6 points, no drink driving offences).
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
