Street Lighting Electrician - Paddington, Greater London

Street Lighting Electrician - Paddington, Greater London

FM Conway is currently seeking a Highways Electrician to join our Digital Urban Solutions division. As our Highways Electrician you will be working within a team working on electrical street lighting installation and ensuring that all site works are executed in time. You will be working across a range of high-profile projects across London. This is a permanent, full-time position based from our Paddington Office.

The duties of the role will include:

- Working within health and safety plans, method statements and risk assessments

- Working with awareness of incident reporting, SWMP and environmental plans provided

- Interpreting scaled drawings of basic electrical installations and detailed drawings of underground cabling

- Ensuring that all site works are executed in a time and cost-efficient manner whilst ensuring regular liaison with the supervisor

- Maintaining plant, vehicle and materials record sheets to support the works programme as well as ensuring that all plant is fit for purpose and maintained to required standards

What skills and experience do you need?

You will have previous experience of working in the Street Lighting industry, ideally you will have the ability to coordinate street lighting operations and you may hold a Class 2 HGV license. You will hold a G39 certification, health and safety, safe isolation and 18th edition. This role will involve travel to other FM Conway and customer locations therefore, the job holder must be able to drive and possess a full UK driving licence.

What benefits will you receive?

As our Highways Electrician we will offer you a range of fantastic benefits including career and professional development and a wide range of shopping discounts though our Rewarding Great People platform. You will receive 23 days holiday plus bank holidays, contributory pension scheme, life assurance, and a range of health and well-being benefits including a 24-hour advice line and support from our mental health first aiders.

A brief introduction to FM Conway and our Digital Urban Solutions Division

FM Conway is a business of families with over 60 years’ experience of creating sustainable and innovative transportation solutions. We pride ourselves on our core values, creating a culture around Care , Innovation , Integrity and Excellence . The heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people and we are always searching for talented individuals to join our family.

Our Digital Urban Solutions division has over 60 years of experience delivering high-profile projects across Central London. From design and installation through to refurbishment and maintenance, we understand what it takes to deliver lighting systems that combine cost and energy efficiency with optimum performance. At FM Conway, we offer comprehensive end-to-end support, helping customers from project inception and development through to implementation and final delivery. Our team works closely with clients to ensure innovative, reliable and future-ready urban infrastructure solutions. Some of our iconic projects include the Illuminated River scheme, where we installed architectural lighting across several of London’s most recognisable bridges, including London Bridge, Southwark Bridge, Cannon Street Railway Bridge and Millennium Bridge. We are also driving forward a 'smart-city infrastructure' installing, cameras, 4G units, EV chargers and air sensors in our columns. This is an exciting time to be joining the business as we are at the forefront of deploying new technologies, asset management and small cell technology practices into the lighting sector.

So if you would like to Join our Family as our Highways Electrician then please click ‘apply’ today .

Closing Date: 06/04/2026

FM Conway is an award-winning equal opportunities employer. We recognise that our workforce should reflect our diverse communities and we are proudly committed to creating an inclusive culture in which we celebrate and value individuals from all walks of life. EDI-Strategy

At our heart we are a business that recognises and embraces individuality, so if you are excited about this role but you are unsure if you meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may still be the right candidate for this or another role we are recruiting for.

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We look forward to receiving your application!