Electrician

Serco: Forth Valley Royal Hospital, FK5 4WR

Permanent, Full Time (6 Week shift pattern)

Up to £43,039 per annum + Excellent Benefits

Ready to impact a better future?

Serco are seeking a skilled and dedicated Electrician to join our Estates and Facilities team at Forth Valley Royal Hospital. You will play a vital role in maintaining and ensuring the reliability, safety, and efficiency of the hospital’s electrical systems and services.

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary engineering team, you will carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM), fault diagnosis, repair, installation, and testing of a wide range of electrical systems in a healthcare environment, ensuring full compliance with Healthcare SHTM (Scottish Health Technical Memoranda) standards and guidance.

You’ll play a key role in maintaining, repairing, and improving critical electrical systems that support a healthier, safer future for the community.

Participation in a 6-week shift rota will be required to ensure round-the-clock cover for the hospital’s essential services.

What you’ll do as a Electrician

You’ll be entrusted to:

• Provide specialist electrical advice and support to estates colleagues and contractors
• Carry out planned and reactive electrical maintenance on plant, equipment, and building infrastructure
• Undertake fault-finding, testing, inspection, and diagnosis across complex electrical systems and equipment
• Complete installation, repair, calibration, and validation tasks in line with relevant regulations and guidance
• Use calibrated test equipment to ensure safe operation of wiring systems, emergency generators, and critical systems
• Participate in the on-call rota to provide emergency out‑of‑hours response
• Maintain accurate documentation including work orders, test certificates, and reports
• Support and guide apprentices and maintenance assistants when required

Does this sound like you?

You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have…

• A recognised electrical trade qualification and experience working as an Electrician in a complex building environment
• Strong fault‑finding skills with the ability to work autonomously and prioritise competing demands
• Knowledge of electrical regulations including BS7671 (Wiring Regulations) and safe systems of work
• Experience working with Building Management Systems, medical gases, HVAC systems, or similar (training provided where needed)
• The ability to use your initiative, solve problems, and deliver safe, high‑quality work in a fast-paced environment

Vetting and checks
This role requires membership of the PVG Scheme, which involves a detailed check of spent and unspent convictions and other relevant information to ensure safeguarding compliance. You will also complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire so we can provide any necessary support to help you carry out your responsibilities.

Discover all you need to keep growing
We’re one of the top 1% of international employers, so you can have confidence you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with leaders you can count on to help you achieve your goals. From mentoring and training to our focus on internal progression, we’re proud to offer clear development opportunities – and the support and tools to help you seize them.

What we offer

• 27 days plus 8 bank holidays – Increasing with service.
• Contributory pension scheme
• Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships (including L3 Team Leader and L5 Operations Manager apprenticeships), mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression
• Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service
• Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel
• Paid volunteering day, tax-free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity
• Our networks support inclusion and connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging. They represent and empower all our colleagues including LGBTQIA+ employees, women, parents and carers, people with disabilities, veterans, and people from all cultural backgrounds.

Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today.

About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services.  We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging. 

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At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.  For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.
 

At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.