Plant Technician

Job Description

Place – Housing and Homelessness

Plant Technician – fixed term until 02/05/2025
Waverley Court

Salary: £28,046 - £32,010
Hours: 36 per week

The City of Edinburgh Council has declared a Housing Emergency and wants to ensure everyone has a secure, safe, warm place to call home, with access to services and a culture that supports individuals and communities to thrive.

Following a review of our delivery structure we have a secondment opportunity to join our team in the plant workshop to assist with the control and maintenance of all plant and hired plant with the Housing and Homelessness service.

We are looking for an individual who will support the delivery of a high-quality, service to our operatives ensuring the health and safety of users and the allocation, maintenance and repair of plant including servicing and calibration.

You should have the following:

• City and Guilds (or equivalent) in an engineering/electrical engineering subject.

• Working knowledge of Health and Safety procedures.

• Knowledge of Microsoft packages – Word, Excel, Access, etc.

This secondment role is expected to last 6 months and will provide a great opportunity to understand the role and responsibilities of a Plant Technician, develop your knowledge of management, repair and purchasing of plant as well as health and safety in relation to plant use.

If you are someone how enjoys new opportunities and can demonstrate our behaviours – respect, integrity, and flexibility, we would love to hear from you. If you have any questions or want to know more about the role, please contact gary.graham@edinburgh.gov.uk.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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