Open role · Newquay, Cornwall · Full time
Electrician.
Install solar and battery systems on farms, quarries and commercial sites across the UK, from a base in Newquay.
- Where
- Newquay, Cornwall
- Hours
- Full time
- Travel
- Across the UK, a few days at a time
- Pay
- Equity available
What you'll do
- Install WattBox battery containers, and solar and battery systems, on farms, quarries and commercial sites.
- DC and AC: battery strings, Victron and Alpha ESS inverters, MPPT charge controllers, distribution boards, generator changeover.
- Three-phase commercial supplies, up to 200 A a phase.
- Test, certify and commission. Then the G99 witness test with the DNO.
- Pre-wire and test containers before they go to site.
- Tell the design team when the drawing is wrong. It happens, and we want to hear it.
Who we're looking for
Gusto and beans.
You turn up, get stuck in and get it finished. Nobody here waits to be told.
Learns new tech fast.
Inverters, battery management, monitoring software: it changes every year. You pick it up and pass it on.
Wants to be early.
One of the first employees in a small business, with equity available. How you install becomes how we install.
Bonus: commercial solar or batteries.
If you have put in commercial solar or battery storage before, tell us about it. If not, we will teach you.
Happy to travel.
Installs are across the UK, a few days at a time. Home to Cornwall in between.
What you need
Must have
- Qualified electrician: NVQ Level 3 Electrotechnical, or City & Guilds 2357, with AM2.
- 18th Edition wiring regulations, BS 7671 (City & Guilds 2382).
- ECS Gold Card.
- Full UK driving licence.
Good to have
- Inspection and testing, City & Guilds 2391.
- Solar PV and battery storage (EESS) installer awards, City & Guilds or LCL Level 3.
- Working at height: IPAF or PASMA, for roof arrays.
- Victron training. It is free and online, and we will put you through it.
- Three-phase and generator changeover experience.
Short on a certificate but strong on the tools? Apply anyway and say so.
What you'll be wiring
- WattBox containers, 10 ft and 20 ft, 32 to 384 kWh, Victron inside.
- Alpha ESS Stax and Storion systems on grid-tied sites.
- Solar arrays from 50 to 300 kW, roof and ground.
- Generator changeover on off-grid sites.
Apply.
Email hello@wattbox.co.uk with a few lines about you and what you have installed. Photos of your work beat a CV.