Maintenance Fitter

**Maintenance Fitter - Ninfield TN33**:

- Location: Battle, GB, TN33 9BJ GB- Division: SE Sussex & Romney- Job Type:
- Requisition Number: 41720- Department: Electricity Transmission - Operations- Job Function: Electric Maintenance and Construction**How do you start a career in the electricity transmission industry?**

£33,209 to £36,933 pa including allowance + Benefits package, training and development.
It’s a great opportunity for a Maintenance Fitter working in the Sussex Team.

We provide job security; substations are a crucial element of electricity supply in this country. Job satisfaction, working in the Electricity Supply Industry is a very rewarding and fulfilling career, we’ll also challenge you with a diverse workload covering a wide range of asset types, age, technical complexity, and skillsets utilised. Safety Culture, HV Transmission Substations are inherently hazardous environments, National Grid has extremely high safety standards that team members generally find comfortable working to.

You’ll generally be working in a team of 2 to 10 people and be involved with maintenance, refurbishment or replacement work on electricity substations covering BN, TN, RH, ME postcodes. This could be from single asset replacements such as circuit breakers and transformers to maintaining/repairing aging high speed on load tap changers or complex 400kV circuit breakers. We also work on all kinds of ancillary equipment, DC battery systems, air compressors, diesels etc.

**What you’ll need**
A minimum Level 3 Apprenticeship in Electrical or Mechanical engineering is required.
- A competitive salary from £31,654 to £35,378 per annum + Benefits Package.
- + Seasonal working allowance £1,555 per annum.
- 37 hours per week, Mon - Fri 8am - 4pm
- 25 days annual leave (increasing to 26 after two years’ service) plus eight statutory days
- The option to buy additional or sell holiday days.
- Generous contributory pension scheme - we will double-match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. Overall 18%.
- Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave - so long as it’s relevant to your role.
- Access to flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.
- Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days).
- Access to apps that support health, fitness and wellbeing.

**Overseas relocation is not offered for this position**

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