Electrical Engineer

Specific Role Purpose

To provide general professional engineering support for the Force’s estate, with specific responsibility for providing electrical engineering support, ensuring that all electrically based building services are safe, of good quality and work well within budget and time constraints

Key Responsibilities

• To oversee maintenance and improvement work in buildings, including identifying and proposing opportunities for upgrading and replacing equipment and installations


• To contract manage multiple maintenance contracts across different disciplines, ensuring contracts are properly specified, tendered, procured and managed during the life of the contract, dealing with all quality, safety, programme and financial matters that arise.


• To prepare contract documents, drawings and specifications for projects and to prepare budget costs. To support the development of stock condition budgeting, including identification of equipment replacement needs and costs.


• To project manage the installation or modification of plant, equipment and building related systems and the delegated budgets assigned.


• To assist the Force Engineer in developing and maintaining building standards for the Force and keep up to date with legislation, technical innovations and operational requirements.


• To assist in developing health and safety information relating to services to ensure safety standards are maintained.


• To recruit and manage the consultants and contractors needed to assist with discharging the responsibilities of the post, including resolving any performance or payment problems.


• To assist the Force Engineer in ensuring that all statutory inspections, testing and certification is carried out correctly.


• As assigned, to lead investigations of equipment and system faults, failures and poor performance; to find solutions within cost limits and to implement effective corrective and preventative actions.


• To maintain accurate, secure, accessible and up-to-date records, including overseeing the records produced by others.


• To provide technical advice to colleagues within Property Services and to non-technical building users.


• To assist the Force Engineer in promoting good energy efficiency and to undertake engineering activities to improve energy efficiency.


• To monitor and adjust the operation of buildings and equipment, both directly and through remote control systems.


• To ensure that the Force’s policy and plans for diversity are properly realised in all aspects of the role, including contractor behaviour.


• To engage in continuous professional development and to keep skills and knowledge relevant and up-to-date, including being the team’s expert and Force lead on a portfolio of building services.


• To carry out any other duties commensurate with the purpose and grading of the post that may from time-to-time be determined

Essential Competencies:

• Degree in an electrical engineering related subject or an HNC with professional membership of an engineering institute, both with five years building services experience working at a professional level.


• A good general knowledge of building services, with more detailed knowledge sufficient to act as the force internal expert for at least five disciplines (e.g. high voltage, low voltage, lightning protection, PAT, generators, Intruder and fire alarm systems; this list is not exhaustive).


• Familiarity with Building Regulations and the legislation and common standards relating to building services, especially the IET Wiring Regulations.


• Proficient in the use of common IT tools such as MS Office.


• Ability to work with minimum supervision and to prioritise workloads

Desirable:

• Working understanding of police contract and procurement procedures.

Essential Skills

• Comprehensive understanding of the application of Health and Safety legislation in the workplace and construction industry. 


• Excellent interpersonal and negotiating skills.


• Proven ability to manage multiple activities concurrently in a multi-site working environment.


• Ability to effectively manage multiple service contracts with values >£100K pa, including commercial arrangements and supplier performance.


• Good problem-solving skills, including the ability to create and use statistics and structured experimentation.


• Project management skills, especially planning and risk management.


• Ability to work under pressure with competing demands

Desirable

• The ability to innovate.

Hours of Work

36.5, flexi scheme

Work Style

Agile worker. Travel around the estate is required.

Prospective officers and staff must be held to a higher standard of behaviour and accountability than members of the public, and that therefore their right to privacy can be fettered in certain circumstances. This is to ensure that members of the police are fully aware and accountable for the unique powers entrusted to them and the standards of professional behaviour they swear to uphold. 

Benefit Statement

By choosing to join West Midlands Police you will receive an enhanced benefits package including:

• Fair remuneration with progression opportunities and access to a very competitive pension scheme.


• Enhanced annual leave in addition to public holiday entitlements.


• Discounts across travel, parking, daily costs of living and leisure activities.


• A comprehensive wellbeing package including 24/7 support, free eye tests and flu jabs.

Vetting

Successful applicants will be required to pass Management Vetting and Security Clearance scrutiny prior to commencing their role, this will include a full background & financial disclosure as part of the vetting process.

Medical

Appointment to this role will be dependent upon successfully medical checks, which may include a drugs test and if required a fitness test.

Probationary Policy:

Under the Probation Policy, if you are currently in your probation period, “during your probationary period you will not be permitted to apply for alternative police staff roles within the Force unless there are exceptional circumstances. In such cases, you would require the support of your line manager prior to applying for alternative roles, and if successful, your probationary period will start over.”-Policies - Probation Period (Police Staff) (wmpad.local)

West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions.  As part of our commitment we operate a ‘Disability Confident Interview Scheme’ - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview.  

It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example: in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job, as they would do for non-disabled applicants.

"Diversity and Inclusion Vision:  Maximise the potential of people from all backgrounds through a culture of fairness and inclusion to deliver the best service for our communities"