Portable Appliance Tester

About the job

Job Title: Portable Appliance Tester
Location: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
Compensation: Competitive Salary + 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 Portable Appliance Tester - PAT Tester at our Ashchurch site.

The role
As a PAT Tester, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will undertake PAT 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)

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

• City and Guilds 2377-22 Certification, for the In-Service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment (either you must already hold this or be willing and able to attain)
• Basic familiarity with the latest edition of the IET Approved Code of Practice (ACoP) In-Service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment (either you must already possess this or be willing and able to attain)

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who 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.

Closing date: 23/10/2023