Street Lighting Electrician at Omni RMS, Congleton, Cheshire East

Street Lighting Electrician

Contract: Cheshire East Highways

Location: Congleton

Contract Type: Permanent

Our client, Ringway Jacobs, a leading provider of integrated highways management, maintenance, and civil engineering services is looking for a skilled and safety-conscious Street Lighting Electrician to join our Cheshire East Highways contract based from Brunswick Wharf Depot, Congleton. You'll play a key role in maintaining and improving the highway lighting network, helping to ensure roads, footways and public spaces remain safe for all users.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced electrician with street lighting or highways experience who enjoys working outdoors, delivering high-quality workmanship and making a visible difference to the local community.

The Role

As a Street Lighting Electrician, you will be responsible for carrying out maintenance, repair and installation works across the Cheshire East highway network while ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently and to the required standards.

Key responsibilities include:

• Installing, maintaining and repairing street lighting assets, illuminated traffic bollards and illuminated road signs.
• Carrying out planned and reactive maintenance activities across the highway electrical network.
• Operating light goods vehicles and MEWPs to support works delivery.
• Undertaking traffic management activities to ensure safe working practices on the network.
• Ensuring all electrical installations comply with current standards and regulations.
• Driving and operating vehicles and plant equipment where authorised and trained to do so.
• Supporting and mentoring apprentices and trainees within the team.
• Participating in the out-of-hours call-out and standby rota to respond to emergency situations.
• Promoting a positive health and safety culture at all times.

About You

We're looking for someone who takes pride in delivering quality work, works well as part of a team and has a strong commitment to safety.

You'll ideally have:

• NVQ Level 3 in Highway Electrical Work – Public Lighting, or an equivalent recognised qualification.
• Previous experience within street lighting, highways electrical maintenance or related infrastructure environments.
• A full UK driving licence.
• A strong understanding of electrical safety and compliance standards.
• The ability to work independently and make sound decisions in the field.
• Good communication skills and the ability to build positive working relationships with colleagues, clients and members of the public.
• A proactive and dependable approach to work.
• A commitment to maintaining high standards of health, safety and customer service.
• Desirable qualifications include ECS Card, IPAF 1B MEWP, G39 and 18th Edition or 714 HERS certification.

If you're looking to develop your career with a leading highways services provider and be part of a team that keeps Cheshire East moving safely, we'd love to hear from you.

Benefits

At Ringway Jacobs we recognise that our people make the difference, and in order to do what we do well, particular care is taken in nurturing and investing in our people. That’s why you will always be given the opportunity to utilise your expertise and develop your career.

Ringway Jacobs recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles. We therefore welcome applications from people looking for an alternative working pattern e.g. part-time hours, job share etc. Please let us know on your CV or cover letter if this is what you are looking for.

In return for your hard work you will receive:

• Sick Pay
• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to purchase up to 5 days extra leave
• A variety of discounts through our “RJ Rewards” app, including restaurants, holidays, days out etc
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Pension scheme

The Company

We are Ringway Jacobs, a leading highways service provider working with local authorities across the UK. Formed in 2005, specifically to provide road network management solutions to local government, our unique blend of engineering capability, innovation and customer care make us the best in class. We support over 10,000 miles of highways, 10,000 miles of footway, almost 7,800 miles of public rights of way and 242,000 street lights. We excel in delivering safe, sustainable service excellence, through our passion, integrity and collaborative culture.

Ringway Jacobs is an equal opportunities employer. We wish to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and the fair treatment of all our employees. As part of this commitment, we proudly support the Armed Forces Community by identifying roles for which we can offer a guaranteed interview to service leavers, veterans, reservists, cadet force adult volunteers, and military spouses/partners who meet the essential criteria for the position.

If you require further details, please contact our Recruitment Team on (phone number removed), e-mail them, or click on the “Apply Now” button. This will take you to a login page, where you will need to create an account to continue your application. Once you have created an account you will be able to see where your application is up to and apply for other opportunities within Ringway Jacobs.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.

We have a dedicated recruitment team and politely request that agencies refrain from contacting anyone across our businesses with regards to speculative CV’s or offering to assist with our vacancies, thank you.