Electronics Technician

Why This Role Matters

Our entry-level technician traineeship is ideal for those new to the field or considering a career change. You’ll help maintain and repair our network infrastructure, ensuring communities stay connected. Electronics Engineering: Work on building, maintaining, and repairing network sites, impacting local businesses and residential customers. Radio Engineering: Maintain and repair radio equipment, often in challenging locations, ensuring access to mobile and broadband services everywhere. Varied Work Locations: Tasks and skills vary by location, discussed during the interview. Flexible Schedule: Workdays are set by your manager, including some Saturdays, but no Sundays. Join us to make a real difference in keeping people connected.

The role can be based in either Peterborough or Northampton

What You'll Be Doing

Take ownership of your designated patch and sites, contributing to area, regional, and unit objectives. Execute prioritised tasks, ensuring alignment with team and unit priorities through coordination with patch managers and senior colleagues. Conduct health and safety risk assessments. Raise issues or risks to senior colleagues to facilitate change. Proactively seek opportunities to enhance your skills to support the team.

Skills & Experience Required

Requirements:

Must be able to fulfil the physical requirements of the role, including bending, stretching, kneeling, crouching, climbing, and working at floor and ceiling levels inside buildings, tower structures, and roadside infrastructure. Must also be able to lift heavy drums/cables and recognise coloured wiring. Must hold a Full UK Driving Licence. Must have a safety mindset: Ability to identify hazards and help grow the safety 1st culture within the team

Skills and experience

Self-Starting: Use your initiative to drive actions for yourself and the wider team. Ownership: Support in owning and delivering tasks, activities, and resources, understanding priorities across the unit. Communication: Communicate clearly and precisely through various methods in any circumstance or location. Problem Solving: Deal with a variety of issues and implement effective solutions as required. ICT Literacy: Confidently use MS Office suite, especially MS Word, Excel, and Outlook. Teamwork: Work well with and support the wider team to understand patch and regional requirements, meeting wider CFU objectives.

Benefits

BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10% From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up. Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more. 22 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues 2 weeks carer’s leave World-class training and development opportunities Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.