Facilities Electrical Technician
Salary: £36,000 - £40,000 (dependent on experience)
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Location: Poole, Dorset, England
Interview date: w/c 6 October
Closing Date: 28-09-2025
Reference: 20218
About us
Our purpose is simple: to save lives at sea. 24 hours a day, every day, RNLI lifesavers are ready to launch to the rescue.
We’re looking for a Facilities Electrical Technician to join our facilities team. RNLI Facilities supports the RNLI through assisting with the maintenance of the built environment so that the organisation can meet its business objectives.
This position and team are based in Poole, primarily looking after our largest site of seven buildings, including the RNLI College and the Sea Survival Training Centre (a hotel and our main training facility), the All-Weather Lifeboat Centre (where we build and maintain lifeboats), and our main offices and store spaces.
Some of the benefits
- Salary of £36,000 - £40,000 (dependent on experience)
- 26 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- Outstanding pension scheme (contributions of up to 16% of basic salary)
- Life assurance
- Working for a leading lifesaving organisation on our fascinating multi-building, multi-discipline Poole site
- Health and dental cash plan
Your role
As a hands-on multi-skilled Facilities Electrical Technician, you will provide specialist technical expertise to support the Facilities team in providing an appropriate built environment for all staff, visitors and volunteers on the Poole site.
You will also:
- Be the go-to “multi-skilled” site Electrical Technician responsible for proactively carrying out routine planned preventive maintenance (PPM) and proactively addressing reactive calls via the helpdesk
- Plan new installations with either self-completion or technical supervision of specialist contractors
- Maintain the site's electrical systems’ critical spares
- Manage your own workload with reference to the reactive helpdesk and PPMs
- Manage procurement of materials
- Identify energy-saving initiatives and implement opportunities to reduce energy consumption
- Monitor and make alterations to lighting, power and plant controls via a BMS system. Ensure energy-saving BMS controls are working in accordance with best practice
About you
You’ll be someone who enjoys working in a service environment. You will need to have a pragmatic, positive approach to the job and towards customers. To be considered as the Facilities Electrical Technician, you will need:
- Essential - Commercial electrical experience, experience in commercial electrical installation, maintenance and fault finding, building management systems controls experience, Legionella compliance, HVAC, mechanical-related service, NVQ level 2 or higher in Electrical or equivalent in relevant trade/skill
- Time served as an apprentice, with post-apprenticeship work experience
- Full driving licence
- Desirable - Electrical qualification, IPAF, PASMA, Asbestos awareness, Legionella Awareness Training, Building Management Systems user training
Other organisations may call this role Electrician, Multi-Skilled Building Electrician.
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Safeguarding
The RNLI is committed to safeguarding; protecting a person’s health, wellbeing, and human rights, enabling them to live free from harm, abuse, and neglect. We expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment and have a zero-tolerance approach. The suitability of all prospective employees and volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This will include relevant criminal record checks being carried out, dependent on the eligibility of the role. (England & Wales; DBS check, Scotland; Disclosure Scotland PVG, Northern Ireland; Access NI, Republic of Ireland; Garda Vetting; International, International Child Protection Certificate process).
Diversity at the RNLI
Our staff and volunteers have been saving lives at sea without prejudice for 200 years. We respect and value diversity of background, skills and perspectives within our teams, and consider it essential to help us deliver a world-class lifesaving service. We are an inclusive organisation and welcome applications from everyone. In addition to having the skills needed for the role, we also look for applicants who share our commitment to living our RNLI values (trustworthy, courageous, selfless, and dependable), and helping us work towards Our Vision: To save Every One