Job Details:

Salary range: £56,436 - £59,574 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience.
Work location: 135 - 137 Lupus Street, London, SW1V 3HE
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 9 February 2026

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM

Housing and Commercial Partnerships in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where people use their vision and commitment to open doors for the next generations.

Nothing beats the feeling of helping someone find their passion. At Westminster City Council, our City Lions team helps young local people engage with culture, creativity and dreams. When they came across a lonely, isolated 16-year-old who called himself a failure, they knew what to do. They worked 1-2-1 to find the thing this boy really loved. YouTube, it turned out. But it's impossible to turn that into a career, right? Wrong. A week later, he was enrolled on the British Film Institute film-making programme. It was the ultimate light-bulb moment. And it turned him into what he is today - a budding Spielberg with a world of opportunity at his feet.

Please view the extraordinary story of the Impossible Dream here.

The Role:

As a Senior Electrical Engineer and Project Manager, you can make your own powerful contribution to maintaining safety in homes across Westminster's housing portfolio. This is a technically critical role at the heart of Housing Services, where your expertise directly supports the council's duty to repair, maintain and upgrade electrical installations across its stock.

You will act as the council's senior electrical contact, providing authoritative technical advice and guidance to a wide range of teams, including Major Works, Regeneration, Asset Strategy and the wider Housing Services network. Working primarily within the M&E team, you will lead the project management of major responsive electrical repairs, ensuring that urgent issues are managed swiftly and safely. As part of this, you will work closely with residents, councillors, colleagues and external partners such as UK Power Networks to resolve complex situations and maintain essential services.

You will take responsibility for developing, defining and managing projects delivered through the M&E capital programme, ensuring that scopes are technically accurate, compliant with regulations and delivered to the highest standards. For planned works and day-to-day repairs, you will ensure all electrical activity complies with contractual obligations, and you will manage the full programme of planned preventative maintenance assigned to you, ensuring works are correctly programmed, delivered on time and followed by appropriate remedial actions.

A key part of your role will be to develop a detailed understanding of PPM programmes undertaken by the M&E team, including electrical testing, fire detection and suppression systems. Using this knowledge, you will review and agree on the scopes and costs for remedial works, verify all submitted certifications, and take corrective action where certificates are missing, incorrect, or late. You will design and document audits of PPM programmes to ensure systems, reporting, and contractor performance remain robust, accurate and compliant.

Your role will see you regularly on site, confirming that major repairs and PPM works meet regulatory, contractual and technical standards. You will visit residents whose outstanding faults have not been resolved, investigate the root causes and coordinate the response to ensure issues are rectified quickly, documented thoroughly and communicated clearly. Where access is required to carry out essential works, you will liaise with residents and contractors, resolving barriers and escalating urgent issues when necessary.

Your responsibilities will also include raising and cancelling orders on internal systems, supporting the onboarding of new properties and ensuring all new assets are incorporated into relevant testing programmes. You will collaborate closely with colleagues across Housing Services to improve quality, ensure consistent service delivery and enhance resident satisfaction. A flexible approach will be required, including occasional attendance at out-of-hours activities and Residents' Association meetings.

Undertaking the associated duties as directed by the Electrical Contract Manager, you will maintain your professional development through self-study and approved training, working towards relevant qualifications where appropriate. Throughout the role, you will work closely with managers and officers across housing services, residents, internal council teams, external consultants and contractors, ensuring strong professional relationships that support the safe and effective management of a portfolio of around 5,000 homes.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

You are an experienced electrical professional with a strong background in repair and maintenance services for residential buildings, bringing the confidence and technical capability to manage complex issues across a large and varied housing portfolio. With a proven ability to work directly with residents, colleagues and wider stakeholder groups, you can resolve issues sensitively, effectively and with a commitment to delivering a high-quality customer experience. You communicate clearly in writing and verbally, and you can translate technical information into language that is accessible to non-technical audiences, ensuring that people understand the situation, the risks and the actions required.

Your experience includes managing information, setting up monitoring systems and using spreadsheets, databases and other IT tools to analyse performance data and produce accurate reports. You are methodical and analytical, with strong numeracy skills and great attention to detail. Adept at investigating complaints, you can prepare written responses and use data to monitor performance and support improvements.

You bring a strong ability to plan, organise and prioritise work, producing high-quality output and managing competing demands effectively. You are confident working both independently and within a team, showing initiative, self-drive and a positive, collaborative approach. Understanding customer needs, you can engage with a wide range of people professionally, whether face to face, over the phone or in writing. You are also comfortable dealing with multiple stakeholders, managing expectations and building constructive relationships across teams.

The principles of budget and resource management are something you understand well. Experienced in supporting project and programme delivery, you use a range of communication skills to help coordinate activities and ensure progress. You are also committed to continuous professional development, invest in your own learning and maintain a strong grasp of the technical and regulatory requirements that underpin effective housing maintenance.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme will automatically be invited to interview, should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' (formally known as B.A.M.E, Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background, you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council's strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city's future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this, visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

As a forward-thinking Council, we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for an interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning, subject to the volume of suitable applicants.