Pat Tester

Job Title: Portable Appliance Tester - PAT Tester
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.

The role

As a PAT Tester, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will undertake Portable Appliance Testing primarily on-site, but with some travel required to sites both within the UK and overseas. You will help to enhance an existing busy team, bringing continuous professionalism to the Electrical Safety Testing service provided to customers. This post requires regular access to the most sensitive intelligence material.

Day to day, you'll;

• Use your knowledge and understanding of the requirements for electrical equipment safety testing to undertake PAT as directed, primarily but not limited to, desktop equipment and some fixed installations.
• You'll accurately record test data using industry-standard test equipment and attach appropriate labelling to tested equipment.
• There may also be the requirement to undertake simple repairs at the point of test, or quarantine equipment which fails the test process.

In this full-time role, you'll be based onsite at our Ashchurch 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 Portable Appliance Tester

• Demonstrable fundamental working knowledge of electrical installations
• A basic understanding of the hazards associated with working with electricity.
• The practical ability to rectify minor faults and undertake simple repairs at the point of test.

Qualifications for the Portable Appliance Tester

• Basic electrical understanding.
• Valid UK driving license.
• 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.

Please note that this position is subject to national security vetting. The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to satisfy Ministry of Defence security requirements. This will include holding, or having the ability to obtain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance.

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.