Apprentice Electrician
What you can expect from us
- We offer a competitive salary of £24,242.40
- 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays a total of 40 days paid holiday per annum which is equivalent to 8 weeks.
- Salary Finance - access both short and long terms loans, plus provides access to a savings facility.
- Opportunity to further increase annual leave with service or though the holiday purchase scheme.
- Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%).
- A great flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies.
- Simply Health cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family. Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more.
- Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
- Access of up to £150 annually through the ‘Learning for life’ scheme.
- Access to a wide range of discounts and cash back offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme.
- Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications.
- Onward Home has a number of colleagues forums to drive positive change and culture including our Colleague Forum, D&I and BAME Network.
Onward Repairs – Meet the Apprentice Day
We’re excited to invite you to our Meet the Apprentice Day at Accrington Stanley Football Stadium on 7th August, from 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM.
This event is a great opportunity to:
- Meet the Onward Repairs team
- Learn more about our Apprenticeship programme
- Showcase your skills and enthusiasm
Please note: You must have applied for the Apprenticeship role to attend this event.
About the role
Onward Repairs are now looking to add to their in-house maintenance trades team will an Apprentice Electrician. In this role you will assist with Electrical repairs and tests in line with all group standards and key performance targets. Ensuring high standards are consistently met together with observing all legal, statutory and regulatory requirements while undertaking repair activities within customer’s homes, voids and for other clients as required.
Key responsibilities
- General
To assist in undertaking Electrical repairs and servicing, ensuring a cost effective repair solution where value for money is delivered. Helping to organise materials communicating with customers other stakeholders and colleagues to deliver a high quality service.
- Customer Service
Provide excellent personal customer service whilst ensuring prompt work of the required standard within the set performance targets.
- Liaison and technical advice
To assist clients, customers and colleagues with applicable information in relation to the service/ assessment of repairs requirements, progress of repairs.
- Quality
Ensure all work is delivered to a high standard.
- Records
To assist in completing jobs on PDA’s and maintain other records as required including access details, materials used, job progression and completion information.
- Health and Safety
Undertake work activities in line with all health and safety requirements demonstrating a sound working knowledge of key legislative health and safety information, safe working practices ensuring risks are effectively mitigated and all instructions followed providing a safe working environment at all times.
- Work equipment
To assist in the operation of light machinery, plant and powered hand tools in accordance with recognised safety procedures. To be responsible for the safe use and daily maintenance of allocated Company vehicles.
What we required
- Have a strong interest in electrical servicing and repairs.
Desirable
- Experience of working in an customer focused position
- Experience of working in a target driven environment
- A driving licence is not needed to take up the apprenticeship but candidates will need to have obtained a driving licence by the end of the apprenticeship in order to take on a permanent position if available at the time.
Our Apprenticeship Requirements
You will be enrolled on a 48-month Level 3 Installation & Maintenance apprenticeship course with Burnley College.
To be eligible, candidates must meet the following criteria:
- Academic Requirements: A minimum of Grade 4 or above in GCSE English, Mathematics, and Science.
- Prior Qualifications: You must not already hold a trade qualification in Electrical or a similar electrical discipline.
- Residency: You must be a UK citizen or have the right to work in the UK, and have lived in the UK or EEA for the past three years.
- Right to Work: You must be able to demonstrate your legal right to work in the UK through citizenship or valid immigration documentation.
About Onward
Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the Northwest, with 35,000 properties across the region.
We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we’re committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers’ heads, we’re here to make a real difference.
In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential.
We embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables Onward to thrive and be representative of the communities that we serve. We want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of our recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you with our recruitment process via the email address below.
If candidates have any concerns / questions in relation to the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process they can contact the HR team on HumanResourcesTeam@onward.co.uk and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.
Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early prior to the closing date.
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