Electrical Technician

Aylesbury - HP19 8RT
, Banbury - OX16 4RZ
, Little Marlow - SL7 3RT
, Oxford STW - OX4 4YU

Job title Electrical Technician  Division Asset Operations & Capital Delivery Location Aylesbury - HP19 8RT
, Banbury - OX16 4RZ
, Little Marlow - SL7 3RT
, Oxford STW - OX4 4YU
Contract type Permanent Full/Part-time Full-time Hours 38 hours per week, Mon - Fri, 7:30 am - 3:36pm Salary Offering up to £42,000 per annum depending on skills and experience. plus Overtime opportunities can increase this earning potential by up to a further £8,000-£10,000 per annum upon completion of essential company training Job grade A Closing date 19/11/2026

We are seeking an experienced Electrical Technician to join our Waste Water team in the Thames Valley North area (including Aylesbury, Banbury, High Wycombe, Marlow and Oxford).

As a successful candidate, you will be 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 benefit 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.

• Ensuring the health, safety and well-being of yourself, colleagues, contractors, and visitors by always displaying the correct behaviours, 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 elevate, 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 your supervision, including the apprenticeship programme.
• Delivering excellent customer experience and positively contributing to overall customer satisfaction. Interacting with all of our customers (internal & external) in a timely, professional, efficient, respectful and polite manner.

Your base location will be one of the following based on proximity to your home address:
Aylesbury (HP19 8RT
), Banbury (OX16 4RZ
), Little Marlow STW (SL7 3SB
), Oxford (OX4 4XU
).

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.

All PPE, tools, a company van and a fuel card are provided.

To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need are:

• You should be a time-served apprentice with significant experience in 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…