Electrician

The Vacancy

🔧 Electrician Opportunity – Join the Wates Team! ⚡

Location: Walton-On-Thames & Surrounding Areas
Division: Reactive Maintenance – Social Housing Contract

We’re looking for a skilled and qualified Electrician to join our dedicated team at WPS. Based out of our Walton-On-Thames office, you’ll be working across the surrounding areas, delivering high-quality maintenance and repair services in void properties.

🔍 What You’ll Be Doing:

1. Full electrical testing and production of EICRs
2. Fault finding and rectification
3. Installation of fans, including core drilling where required
4. Replacing and cleaning accessories as needed
5. PAT testing of appliances and tools
6. Delivering a first-time fix approach with excellent customer service
7. Working safely and in line with Health & Safety and safeguarding standards
8. Collaborating with other trades to complete repairs
9. Completing job records and material usage via PDA

✅ What You’ll Need:

10. Full NVQ Level 3 in Electrical Installation
11. Inspection & Testing qualifications (2391 or equivalent)
12. 18th Edition Wiring Regulations
13. A full UK driving licence

💡 What We’re Looking For:

A confident and experienced Electrician who can manage their own workload, deliver small projects and repairs, and ideally has experience in the housing maintenance sector. You’ll be proactive, reliable, and committed to delivering top-tier workmanship.


Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.

Awards

BEST PROJECT

Inside Housing Development Awards

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2022 Construction News Awards Winner

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Investors in People 2022

GOLD AWARD

Considerate Constructors Schemes (CCS) National Site Awards

TOP 50 EMPLOYERS

2022 Top 50 Employers for Women

WINNER

2022 Working Families Best Practice Awards