The Vacancy
🚿 Plumber / Plumber & Drainage Engineer – Crawley (Responsive Maintenance)
Join the WPS Team – Keep Homes Running Smoothly
This can be a split plumbing & drainage role, or purely plumbing, depending on your skills.
🔧 What You’ll Be Doing
1. Carrying out plumbing repairs, maintenance, and renewal works in social housing properties.
2. Supporting with drainage works if experienced (not essential).
3. Advising your Supervisor when additional trades or support are needed.
4. Working independently or alongside other operatives to complete jobs efficiently.
5. Completing daily work sheets detailing tasks completed and materials used.
6. Delivering high‑quality workmanship and completing work within set timeframes.
7. Providing excellent customer service to residents and clients.
8. Following all WPS Health & Safety and safeguarding standards.
✅ What You’ll Need
9. A full UK driving licence 🚗
10. NVQ L2 in plumbing or similar trade
11. Proven plumbing experience (drainage experience is great but not required).
12. Strong multi‑trade skills are an advantage.
13. A high standard of workmanship and attention to detail.
14. Great communication and problem‑solving abilities.
15. Ability to manage multiple tasks and work to deadlines.
16. A positive, customer‑focused approach.
17. Commitment to maintaining safety, professionalism, and quality.
💬 Why Join WPS?
At WPS, you’re not just part of a team — you’re part of a supportive community. We value your skills, invest in your growth, and provide a workplace where you can take pride in the difference you make.
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.
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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
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2022 Top 50 Employers for Women
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2022 Working Families Best Practice Awards