Job Title: Portable Appliance Tester (PAT)
Vacancies: Multiple Positions Available
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Compensation: £28,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF53863
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a PAT Tester at our Cheltenham site. We have multiple opportunities for candidates with a strong work ethic and a willingness to learn. Previous PAT experience is a plus, but we value your unique skills and drive.
The role
As a PAT Tester, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll conduct PAT Testing primarily on-site, with opportunities for travel within the UK and overseas. You'll become an integral part of a dynamic team, upholding Babcock's high standards for electrical safety testing, bringing continuous professionalism to the service provided to customers. This post requires regular access to the most sensitive intelligence material.
Day to day, you’ll:
- Apply your understanding of electrical safety regulations to conduct thorough PAT testing.
- Utilise your knowledge and expertise to test various equipment, primarily but not limited to, desktop equipment and some fixed installations.
- Accurately record test data using industry-standard equipment and ensure proper labeling of tested appliances.
- Identify and potentially rectify minor faults during testing, ensuring equipment safety.
- Maintain a professional demeanor while representing the company at client sites
In this full-time role, you’ll be based at our Cheltenham site. There will be occasional travel to other locations within the UK and overseas and at times, you may be required to work outside of our core working hours (0800-1600, Monday - Friday).
Essential experience of the PAT Tester
- Demonstrable understanding of electrical installations
- Basic knowledge of electrical safety hazards.
- Ability to perform minor repairs at the point of testing.
- Valid UK driving license.
Qualifications for the PAT Tester
We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who holds, or is able to achieve DV security clearance for this role.
National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Our Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave.
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities, and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
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