Annual salary: up to £40,000.00
Electrician
Location: Birmingham
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £40,000 + company van and fuel card
with additional opportunities for overtime. There is also an optional out-of-hours call rota, providing the chance to further enhance your overall earnings.
Join us on our new, exciting contract with Birmingham City Council
Mears Group has been awarded a major new 10-year partnership with Birmingham City Council to deliver repairs, maintenance, and planned investment work across 11,500 homes in central and west Birmingham. This contract represents one of our most significant projects in the city and will create a wide range of opportunities across our operational teams.
About the Role
We are looking for skilled Electricians to join our team in Birmingham, with a primary focus on EICR testing, inspecting, and ensuring electrical compliance across occupied domestic properties.
You’ll be responsible for delivering high‑quality electrical testing as part of our planned programme, carrying out EICRs, fault finding, and safety inspections to ensure homes remain compliant, safe, and well‑maintained. Working within social housing, you’ll complete detailed reports, identify remedial actions, and uphold strict standards of safety, accuracy, and professionalism while working directly in residents’ homes.
With a strong pipeline of compliance testing and inspection work, this is an excellent opportunity to join a team committed to delivering safe, reliable services to our residents and communities.
Duties
- Conduct electrical inspections: Inspect fixed wiring, consumer units, circuits, and protective devices to assess condition, safety, and compliance
- Perform testing procedures: Complete full testing sequences including continuity, insulation resistance, polarity, RCD testing, and earth fault loop impedance
- Identify remedial actions: Diagnose issues highlighted during EICRs, assign correct C‑codes, and recommend or complete necessary remedial works to achieve compliance.
- Carry out fault finding: Investigate and resolve electrical faults discovered during inspections or reported by tenants, ensuring safe reinstatement of circuits
- Complete minor remedial repairs: Replace or repair accessories such as sockets, switches, smoke alarms, and light fittings where required to close out EICR actions
- Support compliance programmes: Deliver testing and inspection work as part of a structured compliance programme, ensuring properties meet regulatory and contractual standards
- Certify installations: Produce accurate certification and documentation using digital job management systems, ensuring all results and observations are recorded clearly
- Ensure safe working: Follow all safety procedures, safe isolation practices, and regulatory requirements throughout testing and inspection activities
- Communicate with tenants: Provide clear, professional communication to residents, explaining testing processes and keeping them informed throughout the visit
- Leave properties safe: Ensure all work areas are left clean, safe, and compliant, reinstating power safely and informing tenants of any follow‑up actions
- Deliver excellent service: Represent the company professionally, maintaining high standards of customer care while working in occupied homes.
Role Criteria:
- NVQ Level 3 in Electrical Installations - to include AM2
- City & Guilds 18th Edition (If you have 17th edition you can work through your 18th edition)
- Inspection and Testing 2391 or equivalent (2394/2395)
- Full UK driving licence with a clean driving record
- Previous domestic, social housing experience
Benefits we can offer you:
- Company Sick Pay
- Life Assurance (1x annual salary)
- Company pension scheme with Pensions people
- Commercial vehicle and fuel card
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity (14 weeks full pay, 12 weeks half pay and 13 weeks statutory pay), paternity (2 weeks full pay) and adoption leave
- Employee Assistance Programme - free confidential support and counselling available
- Mears Rewards offering discounts and cashback at leading retailers including travel, household items and shopping
- Annual Mears Fun Day - Our annual Fun Day is organised as a massive thank you from the Executive team for all the hard work!
- Volunteering leave – up to two days per year to support community initiatives
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Buy up to 5 days holiday each year depending on length of service
- Learning and development opportunities
- Career progression opportunities across Mears Group
- Be part of an inclusive workplace with access to a range of colleague networks and support groups focused on diversity, wellbeing and career development. From Disability, Pride (LGBTQ+) and Ethnic Diversity networks to Women in Leadership, the Women Operative Support Group, Women's Health, Men's Mental Health and Armed Forces communities, these groups provide opportunities for support, connection and professional development across our diverse workforce
All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.
To drive a Mears vehicle, you must be aged over 21 have held your licence over 3 months and have less than 9 points.
Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant Background, Identity & Security checks before commencement of employment.
Apply below or to discuss your application further; contact:
Francesca Swan (francesca.swan@mearsgroup.co.uk)
If you need any help with your application process, we are here to support you. We will be accessible every step of the way.
At Mears Group, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, we are a Disability Confident employer, valuing individuality and ensuring equal opportunities for all.
We proudly support the Armed Forces Covenant and are honoured to have achieved the Gold Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) to coincide with this, we hold an Endorser Award for the Career Transition Partnership, recognising our commitment to veterans transitioning into civilian careers.
In our continued effort to promote social mobility, we invite applicants to voluntarily share their background information during the application stages to help us better understand the diverse experiences of our candidates. This is to ensure we are committed to improving social mobility. We use the Social Mobility Index to assess and enhance opportunities for individuals from diverse backgrounds. These questions are optional and will not impact your ability to apply.
