About the company
Leicester City Football Club, also known as the Foxes, is a top-flight English football club, in their sixth consecutive season in the Premier League. In 2015/16, ranked as 5000-1 outsiders, Leicester City were crowned Premier League champions.
In 2010, the Club was bought by Asian Football Investments, a Thai-led consortium fronted by King Power’s founder and Chairman, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha. The stadium was named King Power Stadium in 2011 and one year later in 2012, King Power International became sole owners of the Club.
Leicester City Football Club is an ambitious and forward-thinking club. It is deeply committed to the local community and its supporters and continually strives to ensure that every point of engagement with fans is truly world class including the experience on matchdays.
The Club is now continuing to make significant strategic investments across the whole organisation and major expansion plans are in hand. It is an extremely exciting time for the Club with plans for a new state-of-the-art 180-acre training ground soon to open.
About The Role
Based at the Leicester City’s new world-class training ground, the role will cover all aspects of electrical and mechanical building services. The successful candidate will be responsible for installs, electrical inspection, maintenance and repairs work across all of the structures on the training ground estate.
Reporting to the Club’s Facilities Manager, the post holder will undertake all PPMs and reactive tasks as required to onsite electrical plant and specialist equipment, minimising down times by the effective management of personal time and supporting contracts. The successful candidate will join a small multi-skilled on-site maintenance team and will act as a member of the on-call rota for the training ground.
Who we’re looking for
The ideal candidate will have significant experience of commercial installation works, maintenance and record-keeping skills. Moreover, we’re looking for somebody able to problem solve and apply an analytical approach to their decision making.
The Club is looking for somebody who is organised, calm and adaptable in order to deal with a variety of situations or tasks. They will be comfortable in dealing with difficult situations while maintaining a professional, customer-oriented attitude at all times.
Benefits package
Leicester City Football Club offers a competitive salary and pension scheme with life assurance to all its permanent employees. Employees are able to benefit from free onsite parking as well as an onsite staff restaurant. Employees also benefit from up to 33 days annual leave including bank holidays.
Contract Type – Permanent
Hours Per Week – 37.5
Leicester City Football Club is an equal opportunities employer and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
Leicester City Football Club is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. As such, you may be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure & Barring Service and prior to taking up any role.
A shortlist of suitable applicants will be compiled shortly after the closing date and successful candidates will be contacted about the interview process.
If you feel you have the qualities and experience we are looking for please apply by sending your CV, along with a covering letter, by email to recruitment@lcfc.co.uk.
A detailed job description can be found here.
Closing Date – 10 April 2020