Ricardo
Site Electrician
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Overview
Role: Site Electrician
Location: Shoreham Technical Centre
Role ID: 2025-3440
Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.
Ricardo, member of WSP, is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.
The Role
We are looking to recruit a Contractor Site Electrician to work as part of an established team of site maintenance electricians, delivering safe, compliant, and reliable electrical support across a busy engineering site. The role involves carrying out planned and reactive maintenance, fault finding, inspection, testing, and minor installations on a wide range of safety-critical, compliance-driven, and operational electrical and control systems.
This is a varied position requiring work in both office and industrial environments. The Site Electrician will be competent in working on single-phase and three-phase electrical systems, including associated control systems, and will support site operations by maintaining critical infrastructure and responding effectively to electrical issues as they arise.
Key Responsibilities
Reporting to the Electrical Supervisor, the Site Electrician will be responsible for carrying out electrical installations, inspection, testing, maintenance, and fault rectification across both office and industrial environments.
Key responsibilities include:
- Electrical installations in office and industrial settings, including testing and inspection of own work.
- Planned and reactive electrical maintenance activities.
- Fault finding, diagnostics, and response to electrical breakdowns.
- Working on single-phase and three-phase electrical systems, including associated control systems.
- Working at height in accordance with approved safe systems of work.
- Management and coordination of electrical contractors on site.
- Adherence to Ricardo Health & Safety policies, procedures, and safe working practices.
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The role covers responsibility for a wide range of site electrical and control systems, including:
- Electric gates and access systems.
- Transformers and substations.
- Backup generator and standby power systems.
- Control panels and associated control systems.
- Thermal imaging surveys and reporting.
- Intruder alarm power supplies and system interfaces.
- Fuel farm electrical inspections and compliance checks.
- Emergency lighting systems.
- Electrical Equipment Testing (EET)
- Electrical Installation Condition Reports (EICRs)
- Electrical support to test operations.
- Electrical faults and issues arising from building infrastructure.
These responsibilities include safety-critical, compliance-driven, and operational systems and require regular inspection, testing, certification, and preventative maintenance, alongside reactive fault response.
Essential Requirements
- City & Guilds 18th Edition Wiring Regulations (BS 7671) qualified.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience working as a maintenance electrician within an industrial environment.
- Proven experience in planned and reactive maintenance, fault finding, and electrical repairs.
- Strong understanding of health & safety procedures and safe systems of work.
- Competent in using digital systems for reporting, documentation, and compliance records.
Desirable Skills & Qualifications
- City & Guilds 2391 (or equivalent) in Inspection and Testing.
- Experience with three-phase motors and control systems.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word & Excel)
- Experience within a Facilities Management or multi-disciplinary environment.
- IPAF (Cherry Picker), PASMA, and relevant safety training (manual handling, working at height, asbestos awareness)
Personal Attributes
- Hands-on, practical approach with strong fault-finding and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and manage workload effectively on site.
- Flexible and reliable, with willingness to support out-of-hours work when required.
- Strong team player with effective communication skills across all levels.
- Committed to maintaining high safety standards and actively promoting a safe working environment.
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Working here
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.
We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.
Work life balance
We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.
Benefits
We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.
Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
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