Trainee Radio and Rigging Engineer
British Telecommunications PLC · Inverness, IV1 1QF
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Job Req ID: 61935
Posting Date: 20/08/2026
Function: Engineering
Location: Inverness
Salary: £36,420
About the role
Our Radio Rigging Engineers are at the core of the BT Radio Access Network. Their customers include a variety of vital stakeholders from dedicated subscribers to the emergency service network and military traffic. Working at height which can be to heights of one hundred meters plus, they are required to utilise their specialist knowledge, skills and abilities in both radio and rigging to meet strict SLAs and team targets. Responsible for work on all BT Tower and radio sites, streetside installations and exchanges - they are the vital connection for our essential services, responsible for build, maintenance and installation.
What you will be doing
As a Trainee Radio & Rigging engineer in our Networks Field teams, you will enter the business at the ground level. Your traineeship will have you completing a set pathway of internal/external training. You’ll be taught how to work on our network, with a mixture of on the job and classroom training, over a period of 24 months. At the end of this period, you will be assessed, and on successful completion of your assessment will assimilate as a Radio & Rigging Engineer within Networks Field Engineering. Please note you will be required to maintain a level of physical fitness to conduct the role.
Essential Skills/Experience
- ICT Literacy: Confident user of MS Office suite, especially MS Word, Excel and Outlook (e-mail);
- Teamwork: Works well with and effectively supports wider team to understand patch and wider regional requirements and supports these effectively to meet wider CFU objectives.
- Ownership: Ability to take ownership of and effectively manage tasks, activities and resources. Works with the wider team to understand priorities across the unit;
Desirable Skills/Experience
- Self-Starting: The ability to work autonomously without supervision to proactively achieve desired outcomes, often using their own initiative to drive actions required from both themselves and wider team.
- Ownership: Ability to take ownership of and effectively manage tasks, activities and resources. Works with the wider team to understand priorities across the unit;
- Team Leadership: Ability to contribute to and support team colleagues and project leads; for the successful completion of technical activities under a project of work.
- Coaching: Proactively shares knowledge with others to improve understanding. Supervising less skilled engineers on the job.
- Communication: Able to communicate clearly and precisely through a variety of methods in any given circumstance or location;
- Problem Solving: The ability to deal with a variety of issues and effectively implement solutions as required;
Our Package
Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:
- Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
- Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
- Equalized maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
- Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
- Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
- Holiday purchase scheme
You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.
BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.
BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.
Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.
We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.
The essentials
Hours, commitment and the dates that matter.
