Electrical Technician

Job title Electrical Technician Ref 42392 Division Asset Operations & Capital Delivery Location Reading – Fobney – RG2 0SF Contract type Permanent Full/Part-time Full-time Hours 38 hours Salary Offering a salary up to £42,000 per annum depending on skills and experience. Job grade A Closing date 06/02/2026

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Electrical Technician to join our Maintenance team in our Clean Water Division to be based out of our Fobney Water Treatment Site.

As a successful candidate, you will using your electrical knowledge as well as your experience to inspect, maintain, fault diagnose, test, install, modify or repair as appropriate, mechanical plant and associated electrical equipment, in a safe efficient timely and effective manner with minimum supervision allowing us to ensure that all of our sites remain operational for the benefits of our customers.

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 well-being 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 escalate, planned maintenance of plant and equipment daily, installing new plant and equipment as required in line with current Standards and Regulations.
• 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 contributing to overall customer satisfaction. Interacting with all our customers (internal & external) in a timely, professional, efficient, respectful and polite manner.

Base Location Reading – Fobney – RG2 0SF

38 hours per week, Monday – Friday. 7:30 am – 3:36 pm

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.
• 18 th Edition preferred, but training can be given.
• A problem solver, able to identify potential issues and implement solutions, or elevate 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.
• 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)
• Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
• 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.

Disclaimer: Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.