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About The Role
The Electrician position in Manchester involves delivering high-quality electrical services across Onward’s housing stock. This full-time role offers a salary of £39,900 per annum, based on a 37-hour working week. Duties will likely include fault finding, planned maintenance, and responsive repairs within domestic properties. Candidates should possess recognised electrical qualifications and relevant experience. The role provides 40 days of annual leave, a pension with matched contributions, and access to a Simply Health cash plan. Additional perks include a savings facility and flexible working policies. This permanent contract suits a skilled professional seeking stability and a comprehensive benefits package within a housing association setting.
What you can expect from us
- Competitive salary of £39,900 per annum.
- 37 hours per week.
- 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a total of 40 days paid holiday per annum which is equivalent to 8 weeks.
- Stream - access both short and long-term loans, plus provides access to a savings facility.
- Opportunity to further increase annual leave with service or through the holiday purchase scheme.
- Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%).
- A great flexible working environment, with a range of family-friendly policies.
- Simply Health cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family. Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more.
- Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
- Access of up to £150 annually through the ‘Learning for life’ scheme.
- Access to a wide range of discounts and cashback offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme.
- Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications.
- 2 paid half days volunteering per year.
About the role
We're growing our Onward Repairs team and investing in our in-house service to deliver excellent repairs and maintenance across the Greater Manchester. As an Electrician, you'll play an important role in maintaining and improving our customers’ homes, carrying out a wide range of repairs and maintenance work to a high standard. This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive, skilled, and expanding team, helping to provide safe, secure, and well-maintained homes while delivering an excellent customer experience. You'll be part of a team that takes pride in delivering quality workmanship, achieving first-time fixes wherever possible, and making a positive difference to our customers and communities every day.
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The purpose of the role is to deliver electrical repairs and tests in line with all group standards and key performance indicators. Ensuring high standards are consistently met together with observing all legal, statutory, and regulatory requirements while undertaking repair activities within customer’s homes, empty properties, and for other clients as required.
Please note that a full UK driving license is required for this role.
Key Responsibilities
Delivery
- In line with Onward Repairs specification or approved best practice, assess, coordinate, and undertake the most cost-effective repair solution ensuring value for money.
- Organising materials, providing detailed information, effectively communicating with customers, other stakeholders, and colleagues to deliver a high-quality service.
- Ensure adequate stores of materials are available and maintained, including van-based stock, in order to undertake the required repair.
Customer Service
- To provide excellent customer service whilst ensuring prompt work of the required standard.
Liaison and technical advice
- Liaise with clients, customers, and colleagues regarding access, safe working practices, and assessment of repairs requirements and progress of repairs.
Quality
- Ensure all work is delivered to a high standard.
Records
- To complete jobs on PDA’s and maintain other records as required including access details, materials used, job progression, and follow-on information.
Health and Safety
- Undertake work activities in line with all health and safety requirements demonstrating a sound working knowledge of key legislative health and safety information and safe working practices. Assisting the promotion of Health & Safety.
Work equipment
- Operation of light machinery, plant, and powered hand tools in accordance with recognised safety procedures.
- To be responsible for the safe use and daily maintenance of allocated Company vehicles.
Skills/Experience
Essential
- Sound knowledge of Electrical components and fittings.
- Experience of carrying out Electrical servicing and repairs.
- Experience of working in a customer-focused service.
- Proven ability to deliver a quality customer-centred repairs service.
- Experience of working in a target-driven environment.
- Sound knowledge of health and safety regulations, regulation, and ACOPS relevant to the post and associated tasks undertaken within it, in line with HASAWA 1974.
Desirable
- Experience of PV and ASHP systems and working within a commercial and domestic property maintenance environment.
- Experience of delivering services within the social housing sector.
- Experience of using PDA technology (handheld/mobile working technology).
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Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified to City & Guilds / NVQ Level 3 (recognised Electrical trade qualification).
- Code of Practice for Electrical Safety or similar electrical qualification for Fixed Electrical Equipment and Portable Appliance Testing regimes.
- Appropriate CSCS card.
- Qualified to 2391 (Testing & Inspection) or equivalent qualification.
Desirable
- Hold relevant health & safety qualifications which relate to the sector.
- Asbestos awareness training.
- Relevant power tool, manual handling training.
- Appropriate and current training in COSHH & PPE.
- Access equipment and working at height training e.g. mobile work platforms.
About The Organisation
About Onward
Onward Repairs is the in-house repairs and maintenance service for Onward Homes, keeping customers’ homes safe, secure, and well maintained. Our skilled teams deliver responsive repairs, planned works, and voids services, combining high standards, strong teamwork, and a customer-first approach. We invest in our people and take pride in making a real difference to our communities.
Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the Northwest, with 35,000 properties across the region.
We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we’re committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers’ heads, we’re here to make a real difference.
In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers, we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential.
We embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables Onward to thrive and be representative of the communities that we serve. We want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of our recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you with our recruitment process via the email address below.
At Onward Homes, your application will be reviewed by a human who carefully considers your CV, skills, knowledge, and experience as part of our recruitment process. We do not use AI to make hiring decisions.
If candidates have any concerns / questions in relation to the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process, they can contact the HR team on HumanResourcesTeam@onward.co.uk, and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.
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