Electrical Maintenance Tradesperson

City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution.

The combined university is one of the largest suppliers of the health workforce in the capital, as well as one of the largest higher education destinations for London students.

Combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, law, creativity, communications, science and technology, we are creating a ‘health powerhouse’ for students, researchers, the NHS and partners in uniting a world-leading specialist health university. We are now one of the UK’s largest health educators, where staff and students have access to an expanded team of brilliant academic and professional services colleagues, combined resources and facilities and more interdisciplinary opportunities.

The merger creates opportunities to generate significant change in the world of healthcare including changes to treatment, population health monitoring, workforce development and leadership, policy, and advocacy.

Background

The Maintenance Team operate within the Department to maintain M&E equipment & services. The team is tasked with Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) and Reactive Maintenance of all systems on the University Estate.

Responsibilities

You will carry out electrical maintenance both reactive and planned on a range of equipment, including AHU’s, piped and ducted systems, pumps, pressurisation units, lighting, emergency lighting, controls, and power distribution systems.

Person Specification

You will hold an appropriate City and Guilds Part 2 Certificate or equivalent and/or Craft Apprenticeship as an electrician. You must be able to demonstrate a range of M&E skills and experience.

You will have considerable experience as an electrician or equivalent, working on the electrical services installations within buildings on a large estate.

The post holder shall have familiarity with BS 7671 requirements, both theoretical and practical.

All team members are expected to work a basic working week based on a shift system which is generally 07:00 to 15:00 Monday to Friday with a cyclic late shift of 12:00 to 20:00 and a cyclic Saturday shift of 08:00 to 16:00.

Additional Information

Closing date for application: 23 November 2025 at 11:59pm

Interview dates scheduled 03/04 December 2025

The selection process will involve an interview. Further details will be confirmed at the interview stage.

City St George’s offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

Regardless of where colleagues are working, City St George’s, University of London’s premises will be their primary and contractual place of work.

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