Electrician in Guildford

Location: Camberley, Guildford, GB, GU17 9LP

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Compensation: From £40,383 Dependent on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76119

Power the future of defence engineering.

The role:

As an Electrician, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring the reliability, safety and performance of electrical systems that support essential military training and estate operations. This is meaningful work with real-world impact — your expertise will help keep critical infrastructure running safely, while your career grows in a dynamic engineering environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

• Providing a full programme of electrical testing, inspection and maintenance across estate-wide systems.
• Diagnosing electrical faults and coordinating effective repairs alongside maintenance colleagues.
• Supporting predictive maintenance activities in line with asset management and lifecycle plans.
• Identifying opportunities to improve electrical services and implementing cost‑effective solutions.
• Maintaining accurate inventory levels for electrical components and supplies.

Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time. This is a full-time role, totalling 40 hours per week, based at Minley. Working Monday to Thursday, 8am–4:30pm, and Friday, 8am–4pm. Participation in an on-call rota will be required after six months, with additional pay and overtime rates. On‑call allowance: £2,520 per year after completing probation, based on 12 weeks of on‑call cover. Callout payments are paid separately, with each callout paid at a minimum of 4 hours. Company van provided, including use for commuting to and from work with fuel costs covered. Overtime rates: Time and a half on weekdays and Saturdays; Double time on Sundays.

Essential experience of the Electrician:

• Experience working as an electrician within a maintenance or technical environment.
• Ability to work independently and manage your own workload.
• Strong diagnostic and problem‑solving skills.
• Comfortable collaborating with colleagues across engineering and maintenance teams.
• A proactive approach to safety, compliance and continuous improvement.

Qualifications for the Electrician:

• Electrical inspection and testing certification (2391).
• Latest wiring regulations qualification (BS7671) — 18th Edition (17th Edition accepted, with funded pathway to 18th Edition).
• Manual driving licence.

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.

What we offer:

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare.
• Employee shopping savings portal.
• Payment of Professional Fees.
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.

Babcock We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance. We call that lifetime engineering. Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.