Current Vacancies
Mobile Electrician (Gold Card)
£42,000 – £48,000 Basic | Up to £60,000 OTE
📍 London & South East (with occasional UK travel)
Join a brilliant team doing quality work, properly.
We’re looking for a Gold Card Electrician who takes real pride in their work, loves solving problems, and wants to be part of a driven, friendly, high-performing team. This is a mobile role with a great mix of work — from fault finding and maintenance to projects and small works, mainly across commercial sites in London and the South East. Every now and then, you’ll travel further afield for larger projects (with paid accommodation + bonuses).
If you’re the kind of electrician who spots problems before they become issues, works to a high standard without cutting corners, and enjoys being trusted to crack on — you’ll fit right in.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll work both independently and alongside a strong team, supported remotely by our Chelmsford office, delivering excellent service to our commercial clients.
- Electrical maintenance, installation, repairs & testing
- Project work
- Fault finding and reactive callouts
- Planned works & small projects
- EICRs
- Emergency Lighting
- Inspection & testing
- Keeping clear, accurate paperwork and records
- Advising clients and colleagues on safety and compliance
- Working to high standards in line with regulations and best practice
- Maintaining excellent H&S standards (RAMS, DRAs and site paperwork)
What we’re looking for
We want someone who genuinely cares about doing the job right — someone who brings skill, calm confidence, and a solution-focused mindset. You’ll need:
- Approved Electrician Gold Card
- NVQ Level 3 Electrotechnical Qualification
- AM2 + Testing & Inspection
- 18th Edition
- 10+ years’ time-served electrical experience
- Strong fault-finding ability and technical confidence
You’ll be someone who is:
- Detail-focused and quality-driven
- Professional, friendly, and customer-minded
- A self-starter who’s proactive and organised
- Happy travelling across London and surrounding counties (lots of driving!)
- Comfortable with occasional UK travel & staying away (bonuses + accommodation paid)
- Open to working nights/weekends on a rota (overtime paid)
- Willing to join a callout rota when required
- Keen to learn, upskill and progress
The kind of environment you’ll thrive in
We’re a small, close-knit team — all hands on deck, everyone pulls their weight, and good work gets noticed. We welcome people who bring ideas, speak up, and want to contribute to a growing business.
If you want a role where you’re not just a number — where you can genuinely make a difference — this one’s for you.
What you’ll get:
- Competitive salary + strong earning potential
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Paid overtime and rota work
- Bike2Work scheme
- Training & development
- Company social days
- Workplace pension
- Discounts
- The chance to have real impact in a growing company
About Drake Electrical
We’ve been delivering high-quality electrical services to commercial clients across London and the South East for 10 years. We’re proud to be a family-run, tight-knit business known for professionalism, quality workmanship, and excellent service.
Our clients include main contractors, retail chains, offices, local authorities and hospitals, and we’re trusted because we do things properly, every time.
To apply, please email your CV and covering letter to recruitment@drakeelectrical.com
Electrical Contracts Manager/Estimator
Monday to Friday 8am-4.30pm
£52,000 – £58,000
Role Overview
Due to continued growth, we’re looking for an experienced Electrical Contracts Manager/Estimator with a drive to deliver high-quality electrical work and an expertise in problem solving to become an integral part of our driven and successful team. You will be working closely with our directors and service coordinator to take over the small works and maintenance department for the company.
The Electrical Contracts Manager/Estimator will take ownership of both estimating and contract delivery, ensuring works are accurately and competitively priced, delivered safely, within budget and SLAs. They will oversee smaller electrical projects and maintenance works, managing the entire lifecycle from estimating and contract negotiation to project delivery, ensuring quality, compliance, budgeting, and client satisfaction, leading a team of electricians. This is a key role requiring strong technical knowledge, commercial awareness and excellent leadership skills.
Key Responsibilities
Estimating
- Prepare accurate quotations for small electrical works and maintenance contracts (£1k – £100k)
- Liaise with suppliers to obtain competitive pricing
- Interpret specifications, drawings, site survey notes, and client requirements
- Build priced quotations for minor installation works, remedial works, planned maintenance, call-outs, and reactive works, ensuring profitability.
- Attend site surveys
Contracts Management & Delivery
- Manage small electrical works and maintenance from award to completion
- Coordinate materials and plant to ensure smooth project delivery
- Conduct site visits, attend client meetings, ensuring quality standards are met
- Monitor the progress of works and identify potential delays
- Ensure compliance with all relevant standards and regulations (BS7671, H&S)
- Oversee completion paperwork
Commercial & Client Management
- Maintain strong working relationships with clients, consultants and main contractors
- Negotiate contract terms where required and support dispute avoidance/resolution
Health, Safety & Compliance
- Prepare RAMS
- Ensure works comply with H&S legislation and company procedures
- Ensure engineers are supported to work safely
Essential Skills & Experience
The ideal candidate will be comfortable in an all-hands-on-deck environment, where everyone carries the ball and is a solid part of the team. You will want to grow as a person, and contribute ideas and solutions to the business and help contribute to our growth plan. You are a team player who thinks ahead and isn’t afraid to challenge things and speak up.
You will be a perfect fit for this job if you have a passion for delivering the best quality electrical work, ensuring compliance and best practice. You are an expert problem solver with excellent technical skills. You are friendly and personable and can communicate clearly and professionally with a wide range of people. You love to be challenged and thrive in a fast based, success driven environment. You are a self-starter who sees problems coming, figures things out, connects the dots and acts accordingly to provide solutions.
- Strong experience in commercial and industrial electrical estimating and/or contracts management.
- Experience managing small works and maintenance alongside project delivery.
- Ability to price work from drawings and from site surveys / brief client descriptions.
- Strong technical background in commercial installations
- Knowledge of containment systems, distribution, power, lighting, and commercial/industrial environments.
- Organised and capable of managing multiple jobs across multiple sites.
- Can-do attitude
- Attention to detail and detail focused
- Self-starter and pro-active
- Confident communicating with end clients, site teams, facilities managers, and main contractors.
- Solid IT skills with strong attention to detail.
- Commercial awareness
Qualifications
- Time served as an electrician with NVQ level 3 in electrical installation, 18th edition and 2391 inspection & testing (essential)
- Design (C&G 2396) (desirable)
- IOSH Managing Safely (desirable)
- SMSTS (desirable)
Benefits:
- Company vehicle
- Laptop & phone
- Company pension
- Bike to work scheme
- Employee discounts
- Free on-site parking
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
About Us
Drake Electrical is an established electrical contractor delivering high-quality commercial and industrial installations, along with a strong and ever-growing pipeline of small works, reactive repairs, and planned maintenance. We work with a mix of end clients, facilities teams and main contractors, providing a reliable, professional service with a focus on quality and building long term client partnerships.
We have been providing high quality electrical services to commercial clients across London and the Southeast for over 10 years. We are a small-knit, family run business, with a friendly team who strive to provide the best service possible to our high-end clients. We are proud of our reputation for expertise and service in the industry, our commitment to quality work, and our dedicated team of electricians.