Electrical Technician

Company: Veolia | Water Tech
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Location: Peterborough
Job Description:

Veolia Group is a global leader in environmental services, operating across all five continents with nearly 218,000 employees. Specializing in water, energy, and waste management, Veolia Group designs and implements innovative solutions for decarbonization, depollution, and resource regeneration, supporting communities and industries in their ecological transformation.

Job Description

Electrical Assembly Technician – Peterborough – up to £45,000

Full‑time, permanent, 37.5 hours per week. 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, comprehensive pension scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance, and more.

As water technologies experts, we build careers with purpose. We are on a mission of ecological transformation and need a dedicated Electrical Assembly Technician to lead the charge.

Full training on our products is included in the induction. This position is based 100% at our site in Peterborough Service Centre, which is home to a large‑scale regeneration facility and the base for a fleet of over 100 mobile water treatment units, primarily fixed within trailers and containers.

What you’ll be doing

  • Fabrication, installation, and documentation of electrical systems
  • Working with single‑phase, three‑phase, low‑voltage and extra low voltage electrical circuits
  • Preparation and termination of electrical circuits
  • Reading and interpreting technical drawings
  • Troubleshooting electrical instrumentation and mechanical equipment and presenting technical solutions to address these issues
  • Configuration of instrumentation
  • Testing electrical systems incorporating PLCs, HMIs, VFDs and relays
  • Commissioning of special build equipment, electrically and mechanically
  • Maintaining the quality of all products, performing incoming and outgoing quality control tests, inspections, and repair of all plant and field equipment
  • Electrical inspection and testing (EIC, EICR and PAT)

Qualifications – Mandatory

  • City and Guilds Level 3 in electrical installations or equivalent
  • Knowledge of 18th Edition Wiring Regulations
  • Experience in industrial electrical works
  • Experience wiring and fault‑finding PLC controlled equipment

Desirable

  • City and Guilds 2391 – Electrical testing and inspection
  • Passport to Safety or equivalent

Personal Attributes

  • Strong commitment to safety and quality standards
  • A proactive and solutions‑focused approach to problem solving
  • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
  • Keen eye for detail and technical accuracy

Additional Information – Benefits

Health & Welfare

  • Holiday allowance 26 days plus bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell additional days off
  • Private healthcare (currently BUPA), with the option to add family members
  • Dental plan with cover or monetary cash back on appointments and treatments
  • Enhanced maternity/primary care pay of 13 weeks full pay from day 1
  • Enhanced paternity/secondary care pay of 2 weeks full pay from day 1
  • Adoption leave of 13 weeks full pay for parental and 2 weeks co‑parental pay from day 1
  • Support for carers offering flexibility for longer‑term caring needs such as considering options of remote work, flexible work hours, adjusted schedules, and paid or unpaid leave
  • Lifestyle account: £60 start‑up, matched by company up to £360, discounted gym memberships
  • One day of paid volunteering leave per year

Monetary Benefits

  • Leading pension contribution of 10% of earnings from the company, doubling your own contribution of 5%
  • Option to buy shares at preferential rates
  • Salary sacrifice schemes
  • Industry‑leading life insurance: 10x salary as a benefit paid to your nominated person(s)
  • Income protection covering up to 60% of your salary for 5 years, with a lump sum of 2x salary if you are unable to return to work

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.

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Posted: July 10th, 2026