Consilium Recruit are supporting the UK National Nuclear Laboratory to recruit an Electrician. You will support maintenance, engineering works, testing and inspection of electrical system and general support for the site operations. You will be attached to the Preston facility with some travel requited to other UK NNL sites.


Commutable from:  Preston, Manchester, Lancaster, Kendal, Barrow-in-Furness

Salary:   £40,991 - £49,419 p.a. plus an exceptional suite of benefits including:

• Paid overtime.
• Sector leading Family-Focused Policies: celebrate life events, including enhanced maternity and paternity leave and a week off for your marriage.
• NNL offers attractive pension plans. If you contribute 5%, NNL contributes 15%. Alternatively, if you choose not to contribute (0%), NNL will still contribute 10%.
• Annual Leave: Benefit from 25.5 days of leave, plus 4 extra days to be taken during Christmas shutdown, plus Bank Holidays.
• Reduced price gym membership with discounts of up to 25% from 3,700 gym and leisure providers across the UK
• Company Bonus
• Learning Opportunities: Enhance your skills through excellent development programmes.
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life Assurance.
• Enhanced Sick Pay Benefits
• Access to ‘Mydiscounts’ which has a range of exclusive offers and discounts from more than 200 suppliers, including medical insurance and dental insurance. 
• Health Care: Health savings plan which allows you to claim money back on visits to the dentist, optician, and/or physiotherapist (limits apply).

The Role

Main Responsibilities for Electrician:

• Perform routine Engineering, Inspection, Maintenance & Testing on industrial plant and equipment.
• Responsible for carrying out safe, effective, and controlled isolations of Electrical Plant.
• Comply with company/site standards and expectations of behaviour and performance at all times.
• Responsible for completing job cards in accordance with site standards to ensure that good quality maintenance history is recorded.
• Perform breakdown and recovery maintenance on plant and equipment.
• Provide support to project and improvement work.
• Provide support to the facility in the installation, modification, and commissioning of electrical equipment.
• Responsible for checking and fully understanding the Maintenance Instructions/Proof Tests that they are working to.

The Person

Essential Criteria:

• Time served recognised apprenticeship in an electrical engineering discipline.
• Demonstrable experience in maintenance of process plant and equipment.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings and work with maintenance documentation.
• Team player with effective communication skills.
• Flexible approach to learning new skills and self-development.
• BS7671 18th Edition.
• Able to travel to other UKNNL sites in the UK, typically North West region.
• Ability to obtain SC level security clearance.

To apply, please contact James Colley with a current CV via email.