Apprentice Electrical Fitter - Level 4 - Sheffield
OCU Group
Sheffield (S9 3WD)
Closes on Friday 27 March 2026
Posted on 30 January 2026
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Summary
You’ll assist with the installation, maintenance, and repair of electrical equipment while learning to work safely with tools, machinery, and electrical components. You’ll support testing, inspections, and fault‑finding, as well as help assemble, and refurbish electrical fittings and apparatus.
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
- Training course
- Electrical power networks engineer (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 8.00am - 5.00pm.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 7 September 2026
- Duration
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2 years 6 months
- Positions available
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3
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Assist with the installation, maintenance, and repair of electrical equipment
- Learn to work safely with tools, machinery, and electrical components
- Support testing, inspections, and fault‑finding activities
- Help assemble, and refurbish electrical fittings and apparatus
Where you'll work
Five Weirs Walk
Sheffield
S9 3WD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
EA TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Training course
Electrical power networks engineer (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Comply with company and Industry health, safety and environmental standards, regulations, company operating procedures and working practices
- Ensure that all safety considerations are incorporated and evident in all working practices
- Apply asset management, design, planning, control, electrical project or operational engineering principles, as appropriate to their role, to maintain and improve the integrity, safety and longevity of the transmission/distribution electrical network
- Produce timely communications providing information to stakeholders both in writing and verbally in relation to their role activities
- Read, understand and interpret technical information relative to their role, identified in company strategies and policies and work in compliance with technical specifications
- Produce clear and precise reports in relation to their activities to line management, other business departments and to external stakeholders
- Develop and agree project plans to undertake their activities. These plans will contain clear objectives, budgets, desired outcomes and timescales. Also included will be implementation criteria, monitoring process controls and evaluation records
- Use company IT systems to provide accurate and reliable data to support business decisions
- Demonstrate that their work activities supports the business to achieve its regulatory incentive mechanisms
- Provide information to support business planning processes in relation to their role activities
- Uses company risk tools and techniques to evaluate and predict the reliability of engineering systems and equipment
- support the development of innovative policy solutions to best serve the needs of customers and stakeholders
- plan, develop and produce long term network reinforcement plans taking into account emerging technologies and projected future load requirements
- assimilate complex external information to inform company decisions
- evaluate plant and equipment proposals and recommend company approaches
- instigate, as appropriate, investigations into asset, systems or process failures as well as undertaking network performance analysis
- support the identification of new and existing innovation projects
- identify the implications of the next generation of low carbon energy and how it influences the way the network is operated
- build and be accountable for a rolling and dynamic plan, including managing conflicts and changes, for all operational and capital works
- prioritise all works to be delivered taking into account capital delivery and contractor resources ensuring that all outcome targets are considered
- ensure area plans are built optimally, utilising resource skill sets and plan the appropriate outages, negotiating and confirming these by utilising the switching matrix
- ensure all risk assessments are initiated in a timely manner, that any constraints are assessed and managed and any mitigating actions are determined
- ensure all planning decisions are documented in the relevant systems and are communicated with reasoning to all relevant stakeholders
- ensure assets are compliant with statutory requirements, company policy obligations and optimal/limit dates and assess asset condition data against maintenance policy risk & criticality criteria
- be accountable for both resource and outage planning ownership and authority of work to be included or removed from the plan
- taking the long term network plan into consideration, translate company strategies into specific designs
- make proposals regarding appropriate plant & equipment to be used and the benefits of the proposals
- undertake all aspects of design from outlines to detailed plans. This involves approvals, wayleaves, consents, appropriate regulations and costing information
- take into account the implications of safety and environmental requirements, statutory and industry standards, technical system requirements and commercial constraints on design plans
- demonstrate the application of appropriate methods to identify correct load calculations and produce network diagrams
- ensure that proposed designs meet commercial, investment requirements and take into account innovation developments
- remotely control the electrical network, in accordance with operating procedures and safety rules to ensure the safe and efficient operation of the power system.
- control all outages and network access requests ensuring risks to the network and system security are minimised
- manage planned and fault operations and activities on the network to provide a safe and secure electricity supply
- undertake work in complex, dynamic and reactive environments and provide technical and operational guidance to the rest of the business.
- agree and co-ordinate the work of others to maximise network availability and minimise network risks
- escalate significant network incidents throughout the business as appropriate and monitoring of real time impacts on the system
- ensure interface arrangements and impact of embedded generation are considered where appropriate
- gain appropriate Control Engineer Authorisation in-line with company requirements
- project manage activities to ensure projects are delivered on time, meet stakeholder and budget requirements
- manage stakeholder relations and produce final construction plans.
- undertake contractor management of external parties, agreeing work specifications, variations and acceptance of work completion in-line with company processes and procedures
- be authorised to work on the electricity network in-line with company/asset owner requirements
- issue, review and communicate to all site personnel the agreed safe systems of works associated with the activities being carried out.
- ensure the completion of final hand back documentation to the agreed specifications and timescales.
- plan, manage and undertake a range of engineering activities and operations to the electricity network, to meet design, safety, time and commercial requirements
- be Authorised to work on the electricity network in-line with company/asset owner requirements
- take responsibility for and control others who may be working on the network
- issue, review and communicate to all site personnel the agreed safe systems of works associated with the activities being carried out
- ensure the completion of final hand back documentation to the agreed specifications and timescales
Training schedule
Requirements
Essential qualifications
A Level in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Team working
- Physical fitness
About this employer
OCU Group is one of the UK’s fastest-growing companies, delivering complex projects across power, utilities, water, and digital infrastructure. With sales growing five-fold to £1.1bn over the last five years, we are expanding both organically and through acquisitions, including recent growth in Australia and New Zealand.
For experienced professionals, OCU offers meaningful responsibility, the chance to influence delivery, and career progression in a business that invests in capability, autonomy, and high performance.
For those starting their careers, we provide structured routes through apprenticeships, graduate programmes, and training academies, with hands-on experience on real projects and supportive mentors to help you learn and progress.
We value safety, integrity, collaboration, and doing things properly and we support people who want to make a tangible impact.
https://www.ocugroup.com/ (opens in new tab)
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Anyone looking to build a long‑term future in electrical engineering, power systems, or infrastructure networks.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
EA TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000011964.
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Closes on Friday 27 March 2026
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