Maintenance Technician (Electrical Bias)
// Role Summary
Join QinetiQ as a Maintenance Technician (Electrical) at our Eskmeals site, playing a vital role in maintaining critical defence infrastructure. This hands-on position offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technology and develop your skills.
// Key Responsibilities
- Perform planned preventative and reactive electrical maintenance on site facilities and infrastructure.
- Diagnose faults and repair electrical systems, lighting circuits, and power supplies.
- Undertake inspection, testing, and maintenance activities to site procedures and statutory requirements.
- Support maintenance of building services including fire alarms and HVAC.
- Requires 18th Edition Wiring Regulations qualification.
- Role is site-based, 37 hours per week, with opportunities for further training and qualification.
// Role Specification
About the Role
Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow, we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations, our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Maintenance Technician (Electrical) at our Eskmeals site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.
As a Maintenance Technician (Electrical), you'll play a key role in maintaining the operational availability, safety, and reliability of critical site infrastructure within a secure defence environment.
Day-to-day, you'll be responsible for carrying out planned preventative maintenance, fault finding, and reactive repairs across a range of electrical systems and building services equipment. This is a predominantly electrical role, supporting the maintenance of lighting, power distribution, sockets, and electrical infrastructure across the site. You'll spend much of your time out on site inspecting, testing, fault finding, and repairing equipment, while also having the opportunity to develop additional skills through training on systems such as fire alarms and air conditioning equipment.
Responsibilities:
- Carrying out planned and reactive electrical maintenance across site facilities and infrastructure.
- Diagnosing faults and completing repairs to electrical systems, lighting circuits, power supplies, and associated equipment.
- Undertaking inspection, testing, and maintenance activities in accordance with site procedures and statutory requirements.
- Supporting the maintenance of building services systems including fire alarms and HVAC equipment.
- Ensuring all work is completed safely and in compliance with health, safety, and environmental requirements.
- Working collaboratively with the wider Estates and Maintenance team to support business operations.
Essential Experience:
- Proven experience carrying out electrical maintenance, fault finding, and repairs.
- Experience within facilities management, manufacturing, industrial, defence, or building services environments.
- Strong understanding of electrical systems including lighting, power, and distribution equipment.
- Experience delivering planned preventative and reactive maintenance activities.
- Ability to work independently whilst managing competing priorities.
- Full UK driving licence.
Essential Qualifications:
- 18th Edition Wiring Regulations qualification.
Desirable Qualifications:
- Electrical Testing & Inspection qualification (2391 or equivalent).
- CompEx qualification.
We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn, then we would like to hear from you.
This role is 37 hours per week based at our Eskmeals site. Set working times are 7:30 am – 4:30 pm Monday to Thursday and 7:30 am – 12:30 pm Friday. This is a fully site-based role with no shift pattern.
Full training will be provided on site-specific systems and equipment. Opportunities to develop through Authorised Person (AP) qualifications and additional technical training. Travel to other QinetiQ and customer sites may occasionally be required.
About Eskmeals
Located on the Cumbrian coastline, the Eskmeals site supports a range of critical defence and technology programmes. The site combines specialist infrastructure, engineering expertise, and operational support services to help deliver innovative solutions for national security and defence customers.
Security Clearance
Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.
Our Benefits
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
- Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days.
- Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance.
- Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more.
- We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
- Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community.