Electrical Technician (Sponsorship Available) at Calderdale and Huddersfield Solutions

About Calderdale and Huddersfield Solutions

Calderdale and Huddersfield Solutions (CHS) understands the differences in delivering services in complex environments and has a flexible approach to meet the needs of customers.

The organisation’s Estates and Facilities management functions alongside Clinical Engineering, decontamination and procurement service, provide the following:

• Fully managed estate and building maintenance

• Clinical Engineering and Decontamination

• Procurement advice, guidance and governance

• Capital project management

• Transport

• Grounds maintenance

• Portering

• Catering

• Cleaning (including robot and deep cleaning)

All provided to nationally recognised standards giving you assurance that your premises and equipment will be the best they can, and your customers will have confidence in you as a provider.

Job Summary

The post holder will carry out necessary maintenance tasks to ensure the safe and continuous operation of mechanical and electrical engineering services and the building plant located in the Trust.

The post holder will undertake specific maintenance tasks and will carry out maintenance and repair across a wide range of interconnected highly complex plant and equipment. Reporting to the Maintenance Manager.

As an Electrical Technician, you will liaise with the management team on a daily basis in order to carry out work duties and report any issues.

You will also liaise with all the other members of the Estates Department on a regular basis to assist each other and share knowledge.

During your working duties you will have regular contact with all levels of staff, patients and contractors where you will be expected to explain the problems, offer solutions and be able to explain the impact of your work on their departments service delivery.

You will participate in an on-call rota system to provide a flexible out of hour’s service throughout the night for all emergency jobs, covering all possibilities including building, electrical, mechanical and plumbing trades.

Job Details

• Employer: Calderdale and Huddersfield Solutions

• Job Title: Electrical Technician

• Location: United Kingdom

• Salary: £37,778 a year

• Job Type: Full-time

• Closing Date: 25 October 2026

Main Duties of the Job

• Relevant AP duties (HTM 06-02 LV / HTM 06-03 HV)

• Assisting and supporting estate officers

• Mentoring assistants and those working towards a craftsperson’s role

• Cover the supervisor role when required

• Cover estate officer basic duty’s when off site

• Correct attitude and mindset setting an example to the rest of the team

• Problem solving complicated electrical functions leading to a resolution

• Have/Attain detailed site knowledge and understanding of the electrical plant and equipment.

• Work closely with the estate officers in key maintenance functions to achieve compliance

• Take responsibility for completing key actions from Electrical Installation Condition Reports

Job Description and Responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification below for full details about the role.

If you’re interested in applying or would like to learn more about working in the Calderdale and Huddersfield Solutions team, the organisation would be happy to hear from you.

Please contact the vacancy lead listed in the Further details / informal visits section.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential:

• Recognized time served apprenticeship

• BTEC/ONC level or any of the following

• City & Guilds Certificate :- Electrical Installation LEVEL 3

• NVQ Level 3 in an electrical structured training programme

• Good communication skills

• Knowledge of modern A/C equipment

• 18th Edition Wiring regulations

• HVAC Knowledge

• Electrical AP (

• IOSH Working Safely

Desirable:

• Multiskilling qualification

• Full clean driving license

Knowledge & Skills

Essential:

• Excellent working knowledge and understanding of the provision of maintenance services and thorough knowledge of building, engineering, particularly related to regulatory frameworks and compliance requirements in the given service functions

• Knowledge of Health & Safety/Risk Management issues

• Good organisational and managerial skills, ability to prioritise and organise own and departmental workloads

• Experienced at working to deadlines

• Ability to manage own time multi-tasking skills

• Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills along with a proven track record in professionalism, when communicating with people with strong opposing views

• Proven ability to ensure a constructive balance between empowering others to act and holding to account in order to achieve agreed targets and delivery of a high level of service

• Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and academic progression

• Able to exercise independent judgment

• Skilled at working with multi-disciplinary teams

Desirable:

– Ability to produce reports in relation to facilities services in the NHS environment.

General

Essential:

• Able to fulfil the health requirements of the post as identified in the Job Description, taking into account any reasonable adjustments recommended by Occupational Health

• Must be eligible to work in the UK

• Ability to work in various locations throughout the network of services provided by the Company/Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Experience

Essential:

• Time served tradesperson and demonstrable post apprentice experience as electrical craftsman / electrician

• Demonstrable experience and knowledge of identifying fault/flaws from complex electrical drawings

• Experience with Building Management Systems (BMS)

• Have proven supervisory experience

• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary Estates & Facilities team

• Experience of working in an acute hospital environment.

• Experience of AP Procedures.

• Prepared to undertake any training as necessary

Desirable:

– Experience working on Fire Damper Systems/Controls

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.

Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

How to Apply

If this opportunity interests you, head to the company’s official website for full details — click here to submit your application.