Street Lighting Electrician

Street Lighting Electrician

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• Company: inploi


• Salary: Competitive


• Hours: Full-time


• Location: Tameside, SK15 1ST


• Job type: Permanent


• Posting date: 3 Sept 2026


• Closing date: 3 Oct 2026

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Summary

• Contract Type: Permanent


• Salary: Grade F. Scale 17 - £32,046 to Scale 22 - £34,811


• Hours Per Week: 36


• Base Location: Tame Street Depot, Tame Street, Stalybridge, SK15 1ST


• Assessment Date: To be arranged

The Role

We have an excellent opportunity for a Street Lighting Electrician. You must be a time served Electrician and hold an NVQ 2330 level 3 (or equivalent) and 18th edition. The post is a full term contract where you will be carrying out street lighting, public realm lighting and festive lighting installations, maintenance, inspections and testing.

About You

You must have the physical ability to lift heavy materials and have experience in all aspects of repairing and maintaining street lighting infrastructure including CCTV systems on the Boroughs highway network. Experience and industry accreditation in the use of MEWP's associated with street lighting operations is desirable.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and well organised person to join our hard working and committed team.

You should possess a driving licence along with good communication and interpersonal skills and have the ability to work within a team environment.

About Us

Come shape the future of Tameside with us!

Message from Julian Jackson, Director of Place at Tameside Council.

"Since joining Team Tameside in September 2022, I've been proud to work alongside a hardworking and passionate team that's making a real difference to our borough.

Our Place Directorate is at the heart of shaping Tameside, covering everything from planning and highways to parks, culture, arts, environmental services, and facilities management. Whether it's keeping our streets clean, improving green spaces, or driving forward exciting regeneration projects, our work makes a direct impact on the lives of residents and businesses every day.

We've already delivered some amazing projects, like Ashton Old Baths, and are currently working on master plans for our town centres in Stalybridge, Hyde, with projects like Ashton Mayoral Development Zone, and Godley Green Garden Village also set to create new homes, jobs and commercial spaces. But it's not just about developments, day to day it's about making sure our core services are modern, efficient, and able to support thriving communities and safeguard our heritage buildings and assets for the future.

To do that, we need passionate people to join us. If you want to be part of a team that's driving real change, improving local services, and shaping the future of Tameside, we'd love to have you on board.

Come and be part of something great. Let's build the future of Tameside together!"

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value D iversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees' skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English.

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

We have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please click here for more information on our guaranteed assessment scheme.

For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager, Iain Swallow, on or iain.swallow@tameside.gov.uk

Previous applicants need not apply.

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We have an excellent opportunity for a Street Lighting Electrician. You must be a time served Electrician and hold an NVQ 2330 level 3 (or equivalent) and 18th edition. The post is a full term contract where you will be carrying out street lighting, public realm lighting and festive lighting installations, maintenance, inspections and testing.

About You

You must have the physical ability to lift heavy materials and have experience in all aspects of repairing and maintaining street lighting infrastructure including CCTV systems on the Boroughs highway network. Experience and industry accreditation in the use of MEWP's associated with street lighting operations is desirable.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and well organised person to join our hard working and committed team.

You should possess a driving licence along with good communication and interpersonal skills and have the ability to work within a team environment., Our employees' skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English.

Come shape the future of Tameside with us!

Message from Julian Jackson, Director of Place at Tameside Council.

"Since joining Team Tameside in September 2022, I've been proud to work alongside a hardworking and passionate team that's making a real difference to our borough.

"Our Place Directorate is at the heart of shaping Tameside, covering everything from planning and highways to parks, culture, arts, environmental services, and facilities management. Whether it's keeping our streets clean, improving green spaces, or driving forward exciting regeneration projects, our work makes a direct impact on the lives of residents and businesses every day.

''We've already delivered some amazing projects, like Ashton Old Baths, and are currently working on master plans for our town centres in Stalybridge, Hyde, with projects like Ashton Mayoral Development Zone, and Godley Green Garden Village also set to create new homes, jobs and commercial spaces. But it's not just about developments, day to day it's about making sure our core services are modern, efficient, and able to support thriving communities and safeguard our heritage buildings and assets for the future.

To do that, we need passionate people to join us. If you want to be part of a team that's driving real change, improving local services, and shaping the future of Tameside, we'd love to have you on board.

Come and be part of something great. Let's build the future of Tameside together!''

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.