Mobile Engineer

The Vacancy

Mobile Engineer (Electrical Bias)

📍 Covering Southampton & Hampshire
🚗 Mobile Role – Company Vehicle Provided

The Role

WPS are seeking an experienced Mobile Engineer to join our team supporting the Hampshire Blue Light contract, covering Southampton and surrounding areas.

This is a mobile role delivering planned and reactive electrical maintenance across critical service environments including emergency service buildings. The successful engineer will play a key role in ensuring sites remain compliant, safe and operational at all times.

Key Responsibilities

• Carrying out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive electrical works
• Diagnosing and rectifying electrical faults efficiently
• Working on lighting systems, small power, emergency lighting and general electrical services
• Completing compliance checks and statutory testing where required
• Supporting minor multi-skilled / fabric tasks as needed
• Ensuring all works are completed in line with health & safety, statutory and contract requirements
• Accurately completing job reports via PDA / CAFM system
• Representing WPS professionally while working in client‑facing, high‑security environments

About You

• Recognised electrical qualification (e.g. NVQ Level 3 / City & Guilds or equivalent)
• 18th Edition (BS7671) – essential
• Proven experience in a mobile building services or FM environment
• Ability to work calmly and professionally in Blue Light / critical environments
• Full UK driving licence
• Strong fault‑finding and problem‑solving skills
• Comfortable working independently while supporting a wider team

Desirable

• 2391 or equivalent testing & inspection qualification
• Multi-skilled maintenance experience

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on a high-profile Blue Light contract
• Company vehicle, tools and uniform provided
• Monday to Friday working pattern
• Stable, long-term role with a leading UK property services provider
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Ongoing training and development opportunities

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.