Electrical Technician

Job title Electrical Technician Ref 42012 Division Asset Operations & Capital Delivery Location Abbey Mills - Stratford - E15 2RN Contract type Permanent Full/Part-time Full-time Hours 38 hours Monday- Friday 7:30am-3:36pm Salary Offering a salary up to £42,000 per annum depending on skills and experience plus a company van, tools, and PPE. Job grade A Closing date 07/04/2026

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Electrical Technician to Join our Maintenance team in our Wastewater Division to be based out of our Abbey Mills - Stratford - E15 2RN. Site

As a successful candidate, you will use your electrical knowledge as well as your experience and will be responsible for carrying out scheduled, unscheduled and emergency maintenance work on all electrical equipment in compliance with company procedures to minimise plant breakdown.

This is an excellent opportunity to make a real difference to Thames Water's environmental impact, and you will be actively helping to reduce pollution from our sites.

What you'll be doing as the Electrical Technician

• Ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of yourself, colleagues, contractors, and visitors is always my top priority by always displaying the correct behaviours by complying with the Health and Safety at work regulations and Thames Water's Health and Safety guidelines.
• Undertaking both reactive and planned maintenance, responding to alarms and fault finding to identify issues, fix these or escalating, planned maintenance of plant and equipment on a daily basis, installing new plant and equipment as required in line with current Standards and Regulations.
• Examples of equipment that you will be working on will be motors, gearboxes, screw /chain conveyors & centrifuges, various pumps, and associated control gear, 3-phase motors, starters and controls, electronic control systems such as VSD, automatic valves, flow, level and pressure measurement, programmable logic controllers, variable speed drives and controls
• Record work and asset information to improve business performance along with identifying possible future risks and recommending changes in the course of your day-to-day work and to raise these for resolution as required.
• Provide specialist technical advice where appropriate with up-to-date technical knowledge along with coaching, training and developing staff under their supervision, including the apprenticeship programme
• Delivering excellent customer experience and positively contribute to overall customer satisfaction. Interacting with all of our customers (internal & external) in a timely, professional, efficient, respectful and polite manner.

Base Location

Abbey Mills - Stratford - E15 2RN

Schedule

38 hours per week Monday-Friday. 7:30 am -3:36 pm plus Standby rota payments & Overtime opportunities can increase the earning potential by up to a further £8,000-£10,000 per annum upon completion of essential company training

Equipment and Logistics

All PPE, Tools plus the provision of a Van when on duty and on call.

What you should bring to the role

• You should be a time-served apprentice with significant experience in mechanical / electrical systems or with NVQ or C&G level 3 in electrical engineering.
• 18th Edition
• A problem solver, able to identify potential issues and implement solutions, or escalating if required.
• An excellent communicator, providing technical expertise to Internal and External staff and contractors.
• Resilient, adapting to the pressures of work and working in a constantly changing environment.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision, under own initiative to design and standards.
• Knowledge and awareness of Health and Safety issues relevant to the industry.
• Team player who can work in many different teams showing respect for others, providing helpful feedback and supporting the development of others.
• Full UK driving licence

What's in it for you?

• Offering a salary up to £42,000 per annum depending on skills and experience plus a company van, tools, and PPE.
• Contributory pension - Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution
• Annual Leave: 24 days holiday per year, increasing to 28 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
• Generous Paternity Leave, including 4 weeks paid and an optional 2 weeks unpaid
• Enhanced Maternity Leave, 26 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay!
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family's health and wellbeing, and your finances - from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance