"Electrical Technician"

About us:

Kings College London is a world class university and the department of Estates and Facilities, Engineering Strand is responsible for maintaining the services across the Strand Campus allowing staff and students to make the most of their time here.

About the role:

Responsible for undertaking planned preventative and reactive maintenance throughout University buildings, whilst ensuring adherence to operational, regulatory and statutory compliance requirements. Ensuring records of planned and reactive maintenance are kept up to date and to a high standard.

The role will liaise with specialist contractors and other building dedicated engineers to maintain high quality service delivery and maximum system uptime. The Electrical Technician will ensure teams and clients (where applicable) are kept up to date on progress.

The Electrical Technician will be expected to optimise and analyse performance, whilst problem solving and offering creative solutions.

• Develop a complete familiarity with the operation and recovery of all business-critical systems within the building portfolio.
• Carry out planned preventative maintenance and report faults and ensure compliance with all relevant guidelines, statutory acts and regulations. Update site-specific work schedules and re-programme regularly.
• Maintain a Safe Systems of Work process and periodically update as may be required.
• Manage and conduct fault finding.
• Conduct statutory system and asset testing and report accordingly.
• Deal responsibly with emergencies and breakdowns.
• Deliver and comply with all statutory, client specific environmental, health, safety and quality standards applicable to the University environment.
• Minimise the risk of plant failure and breakdown and promote a reliability centred and conditioned based proactive maintenance process.
• You will be expected to deliver a high level of customer focused service and participate in training when required (Fit for King’s, etc).

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About You:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Level 3 award/certificate in electrical field or equivalent or time serviced apprenticeship (Electrical) and strong, demonstrable competencies in electrical trades
2. Good knowledge of engineering designs, installations, maintenance and repairs
3. Good understanding of health and safety processes and policies
4. Effective communication skills in order to convey information clearly
5. IT literate (Excel, Teams and Microsoft packages) and ability to work from an iPad to manage through our CAFM system
6. Excellent customer service skills with the ability to offer guidance on requests

Desirable criteria

1. Knowledge and understanding of working in critical environments
2. IOSH Managing Safety course

Full details of the role and the skills and experience required, can be found in the attached job description which provided on the next page.

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

Grade and Salary: £34,713 - £38,127 inclusive of London Weighting Allowance

Job ID: 123585

Close Date: 14-Sep-2025

Contact Person: Jeff Jackson

Contact Details: Jeffery.Jackson@kcl.ac.uk