Field Engineering Technician Job Req ID: 41237 Posting Date: 18 Dec 2024 Function: Engineering Unit: Networks Location: Reffley Estate, Kings Lynn, United Kingdom Salary: . **Location: Kings Lynn** **Internal Closing Date: 06.01.2025** **Why This Job 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. **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. **The Skills and Experience You'll Need** 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. 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** + 22 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) + BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10% + Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes. + Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages BT TV, including TNT Sports and NOW entertainment With over 175 years of heritage, BT is now the flagship business brand of BT Group. We’ve brought together our best people and capabilities into a B2B powerhouse serving 1.2 million business customers internationally. We’re a global leader for secure connectivity and collaboration platforms for businesses of all shapes and sizes, from big household names and government departments, right through to sole traders and new start-ups. But it’s not just the technology that matters, it’s what it can do to help them build stronger, smarter, more secure businesses. We value diversity and inclusion and believe in making a positive impact. We connect for good by championing digital inclusion and equipping people, businesses, and communities with digital skills to thrive. As a member of our team, you will be part of an organisation that celebrates difference, fosters innovation and provides you with opportunities to be your best. With millions of businesses relying on us daily, joining BT means you can be part of a diverse and multi-skilled team that makes a significant impact to society. **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.