Mobile Engineer

The Vacancy

🔧 Mobile Engineer
📍 Location: Southampton and surrounding Hampshire area
📅 Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

About the Role:
Wates Property Services is looking for a skilled and reliable Mobile Engineer to join our team supporting the Hampshire Blue Light contract. This role involves delivering planned and reactive maintenance across multiple sites, ensuring critical infrastructure remains safe, operational, and compliant.

Key Responsibilities:

• Carry out a wide range of building services maintenance tasks, including electrical, mechanical, and general fabric repairs
• Respond promptly to reactive maintenance requests across designated sites
• Conduct routine inspections and preventative maintenance to ensure optimal performance of building systems
• Maintain accurate records of work completed and materials used
• Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations and site-specific procedures
• Provide excellent customer service and represent Wates professionally at all times

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience in a mobile engineering or multi-skilled maintenance role
• Relevant trade qualifications (e.g., electrical, mechanical, or building fabric)
• Full UK driving licence (essential)
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to maintenance
• Ability to work independently and manage a varied workload across multiple locations
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Company vehicle and fuel card
• Opportunities for training and career development
• Supportive and collaborative working environment
• A chance to work on a meaningful contract supporting emergency services infrastructure

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic 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.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

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.