Electrician (Response)

**Electrician (Response)**

**£34,620 per annum**

**Melksham and surrounding areas**

**Flexible working opportunities**

**Full time (40 hrs)**

**Permanent**

**Closing Date: 9th January 23**

**The role**

The Electrician will carry out repairs and maintenance to our housing stock. There will be a necessity to be available for out of hours cover on a rota system.

**It has the following main responsibilities;**
- Ensuring that work has been carried out effectively and efficiently.
- Developing and maintaining good levels of communication with all contract team members and operatives.
- Ensuring strict compliance with company and legislative requirements.
- Ensuring customer satisfaction by having a fixed first-time approach to all jobs.
- Being available for the out of hours rota.

**What we need**

For this role you’ll need to have the following skills and experience;
- Qualified within the trade below at a minimum of 18th edition NVQ Level 3 Part P.
- Desirable qualifications are 2391 and 2394/5
- Detecting faults in electrical appliances and systems, and correctly diagnosing their causes.
- Installing, repairing and maintaining domestic fixtures and systems
- Test and inspect.
- Awareness of legal regulations and safety issues.
- Previous experience of carrying out programmed works, maintenance and servicing in domestic or commercial premises together with the provision of accurate records in relation to the work undertaken.
- A full UK driving licence.

Please note due to health and safety reasons, all operatives wear RPE and so we operate under a clean-shaven policy.

**Who we are**

Selwood Housing Group is a not-for-profit housing association committed to providing affordable local homes for our customers. We have over 6,500 homes for affordable rent and shared ownership in Wiltshire, Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset and employnearly 300 staff from our offices in Trowbridge and Melksham. Silcoa is our repairs and maintenance company.