Group Senior Electrician
LORD
WANDSWORTH
COLLEGE
·HAMPSHIRE·
Lord Wandsworth College
Group Senior Electrician
Candidate Pack
Role Profile
Directorate:
Estates
Responsible to:
Estates Maintenance Manager
Location:
Across both sites, LWC & St Neots
Contract:
Permanent, 40 hours per week, 5 in 7 working may be required to support operational needs
Salary:
£39,398 per annum
Benefits
We offer a vast range of staff benefits including:
• Contributory pension scheme
• Fee remission for children
Enhanced family friendly policies including support for emergency time off for dependants
State of the art, restaurant quality hot and cold food available (complimentary)
• Death in service scheme - 4 times your annual salary
Friends and Family referral scheme (£250 for each referral)
• Give as you earn and staff volunteering day
Use of wide-ranging school facilities - swimming pool, tennis, walks, trails etc
• Excellent social and sporting events for staff within the school
Role outline and purpose
The Senior Electrician plays a critical role in ensuring the safety, reliability, and statutory compliance of electrical systems across both school sites. Working as part of the in-house Estates team, the role provides specialist technical expertise and supports the delivery of highquality maintenance and installation services, reducing reliance on external contractors.
• The Senior Electrician is responsible for leading electrical maintenance, compliance, and installation work across both sites.
The role provides experienced technical expertise within the in-house team, ensuring electrical systems are safe, fully operational, and meet all required standards, while delivering both routine and specialist electrical works, including remedial and statutory tasks.
Role responsibilities
Electrical Maintenance & Compliance
• Lead on electrical maintenance across the estate, including:
o Fault finding and repairs
o Planned preventative maintenance (PPM)
o Electrical installation work
• Deliver and support statutory compliance requirements, including:
o Emergency lighting testing and remedial works
o Support for EICR programmes and follow-up actions
o Fire alarm system support (in conjunction with specialist contractors)
• Diagnose faults effectively and determine appropriate repair solutions
• Ensure all electrical work is carried out in line with current regulations and best practice
Technical Oversight
• Act as the lead electrical specialist within the in-house team
• Provide technical guidance and support to maintenance staff
• Oversee and review work carried out by external contractors where required
• Support planning and delivery of electrical elements of projects and minor works
Maintenance & Estates Support
• Work collaboratively with the wider maintenance team to deliver:
o Reactive maintenance
o Planned works
o Minor projects
• Contribute to improving efficiency, standards, and working practices across the estate
Compliance & Health & Safety
• Ensure all electrical works are carried out safely and in compliance with relevant legislation
• Maintain accurate records of testing, inspections, and works undertaken
Support wider estates compliance activity where required
Operational Support
Provide support to the wider school operation where necessary, including:
o Events and function set-up (as required)
o Out-of-hours working on a rota basis
o Emergency call-out response
Person Specification
Essential
• Fully qualified electrician (NVQ Level 3 or equivalent)
• 18th Edition Wiring Regulations (BS 7671)
ECS Gold Card (Installation Electrician or equivalent)
• Part P (Domestic Electrical Installer) or working towards
• Demonstrable experience within the electrical industry (typically 5+ years post-qualification),
• Experience working in a complex or multi-building environment
Strong diagnostic and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and manage workload effectively
Desirable
• Testing and inspection qualification (2391 or equivalent)
Experience working in a school or similar environment
• Knowledge of compliance requirements (EICR, emergency lighting, fire systems)
• Experience supervising or mentoring others
Behaviours and competencies
• Demonstrate a commitment to the values of LWC schools.
Be proactive in matters relating to health and safety, child protection and safeguarding including the completion of all mandatory training modules.
• Ability to build effective relationships across the College including contractors, suppliers and advisors.
Ability to work on own initiative and problem solve.
Key Stakeholders
• Director of Estates
• Project Manager, Grounds Manager, Compliance and Minor Works Manager
• Estates and Operation teams
• Academic and Pastoral staff
• College Residents
• Senior Leadership Team
• Pupils
This role profile is not exhaustive and will be subject to review. It may be amended to meet the changing needs of the College.
Lord Wandsworth College
A different kind of school for a wonderfully open world
Uncertainty is a gift to those with a wide perspective, an open mind and the space and the safety to explore. Our job is to widen students’ worlds so nothing is beyond their grasp.
We’ve been ‘widening worlds’ since 1922, when LWC was founded by Sydney Stern (Lord Wandsworth) to support orphans. In those days, this widening of worlds was very much a response to the fact that orphans’ worlds had contracted or collapsed very suddenly. The school expanded their opportunities, connecting them - via our vast acreage and farmland - with a path into agriculture.
These days, the future is far less known; vocations harder to predict. And so the need to widen worlds is more profound. We support and inspire students, around 700 of them, to be able to forge their own futures, each one more exciting and extraordinary than any goal they could have envisaged at the start. Wonderfully, our students’ successes make our world bigger too.
Appointment process and how to apply
Please apply via our LWC website using our recruitment portal.
The closing date for applications is midnight on Sunday 7th June 2026 with interviews taking place on 16th June 2026.
Should you wish to discuss the role in strict confidence please feel free to contact Lidia Pocock, Director of Estates on pocockl@lordwandsworth.org.
We welcome people of all faiths and those that are committed to these values. We recognise that we have under-represented groups within our workforce. As part of our commitment to diversity and equality of opportunity we are actively encouraging applications from underrepresented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions and those with a lived experience of poverty as well as any other under-represented group in our workforce. We are committed ensuring the safety and protection of our employees from all forms of harm.
Appointments will be made subject to receipt of satisfactory references and enhanced DBS check. The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. The successful applicant will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check and references. We are an equal opportunities employer.
Lord Wandsworth College is a registered charity (Number: 1143359) providing outstanding caring education for boys and girls since 1922.