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For informal enquiries, please contact Neil Williams (Electrical Services Manager) Neil.Williams.1@warwick.ac.uk
This role includes installing and maintaining electrical equipment, planned maintenance and remedial works within residential, commercial, and industrial premise. As one of our apprentices you will be fully supported throughout.
We are seeking an ideal candidate with prior experience in the electrical industry, preferably as a trainee. The ideal candidate should have successfully achieved a Level 2 technical certificate and commenced or completed the Level 3 certificate, with a pending requirement to complete the AM2 assessment.
For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.
The Estates Office looks after the Warwick University campus - the land it’s built on and the buildings it’s made up of. It’s mission is to “make and care for places and spaces where people are continually inspired, and our services valued”.
Here is your chance to be part of the team that makes Warwick University’s Estates Department one of the most enjoyable places to work in the Coventry area. Our mission is to deliver excellent customer service by creating, operating, and sustaining safe, high-quality environments.
The Electrical Maintenance team provides the University of Warwick with all services relating to the operation and maintenance of building structures and associated building engineering services. We are responsible for the operations and maintenance of a wide variety of complex equipment throughout the University Estate such as High Voltage /Low Voltage power distribution systems, critical power supplies, localised small power, lighting, security, life safety systems and building energy management systems.
Born in the 60s with a mindset of boldness, imagination and collaboration, the University of Warwick is a world-leading research-intensive university with the highest academic and research standards. We’re one of the world’s top universities, ranked 67th in the world and 10th in the UK*, with 92% of our research assessed to be ‘world leading or internationally excellent’**.
You'll be joining a diverse, innovative and globally connected community committed to igniting real world progress. Here at Warwick, we offer you opportunities to follow your ambitions as long as you bring the energy and determination to succeed.
*QS World University Rankings 2024
** Research Excellence Framework 2021
To find out more about us visit our website.
CLOSING DATE: Sunday 1st June 2025 at 23:55 (BST)
To apply please click here, see the how to apply section to download a short application form and send it with your CV and covering letter clearly demonstrating how you meet the essential criteria on the person specification to EstatesApprentices@warwick.ac.uk.
We will provide you with a great range of benefits, which include an attractive pension scheme, 26 days holiday plus Christmas closure, excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. We offer a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities.
We recognise the importance of a healthy work/life balance and offer you access to flexible working, for more information click here.
We are proud to say that we are a Living Wage employer.
Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social, and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.
We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpages here.
The University currently holds a Race Equality Charter Bronze Award, Athena Swan Sliver Award and a Disability Smart Bronze Award. Further information on all of the University's Awards and Accreditations can be found here. The University of Warwick is also one of the six founder institutions of the EUTOPIA European University Alliance.
Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS)
The University of Warwick is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all those we work with.
In line with the DBS Code of Practice, the successful candidates for any roles involving regulated activity, will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. The University will take all necessary measures to ensure that any individual subject to a barring order does not undertake any work with the barred group specified (i.e. children and/or adults).
We expect all employees, volunteers, and partners to share our commitment to safeguarding.
Rehabilitation of Ex-Offenders
The University undertakes not to discriminate against anyone who makes a disclosure relating to a conviction. The information disclosed at application stage is only visible to the central DBS team (i.e. not recruiting managers) to ensure there is no bias during the shortlisting process.
We wish to advise applicants that this role is not eligible for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker visa. If you do not yet have the right to work in the UK you will need to check the UK Government Website to see if you are eligible to obtain the right to work in the UK through one of the other UK immigration routes before you make your application.
This opportunity is closed to applications.
