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How do you start a career in the electricity transmission industry?

£38,267 pa including allowances + benefits package + company vehicle with fuel from home to work.

It’s a great opportunity for a Maintenance Assistant working in the West Anglia Team. Due to the nature of our work you’ll live somewhere within 30 minutes travel of Chalton, Luton, Dunstable or Leighton Buzzard.

As a Maintenance Assistant, you’ll undertake site routines and other duties on plant and equipment to a defined standard, to ensure optimum efficiency and safety. Day to day – you will drive to various sites in a company vehicle to carry out planned preventative maintenance checks, using an iPad you’ll follow instructions for the required planned checks. On job and Formal training will be available for development purposes with future opportunities for progression.

We can provide you with Job Security, substations are a crucial element of electricity supply in this country. Job satisfaction, working in the Electricity Supply Industry is a very rewarding and fulfilling career. We’ll challenge you with a diverse workload covering a wide range of asset types, age, technical complexity, and skillsets utilised. Safety Culture, HV Transmission Substations are inherently hazardous environments, National Grid has extremely high safety standards that team members generally find comfortable working to.

What are the requirements?

We would like your cv to show us you are a safe worker, can follow instructions and have practical skills for working on various types of plant and equipment. You’ll enjoy working and helping other people in the team. You can use a laptop and iPad and have a full UK driving license. Desirable – Mechanical or Electrical experienced.

Pay and Benefits

• Starting salary £31,973 pa + £1,794 pa Seasonal working allowance + £4,500 pa London Allowance.

• 37 Hours per week Mon – Fri, the weekends are yours.

• Company commercial vehicle & fuel from home to work.

• Training and Development.

• 26 days annual leave plus 8 statutory days.

• The option to buy additional or sell holiday days.

• Generous contributory pension scheme - we will double-match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. Totalling 18%.

• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave – relevant to your role.

• Access to flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

• Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days).

• Access to apps that support health, fitness and wellbeing.

Apply now.

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