Why Power Testing
Power Testing prides itself on being a well-established and family-run business. They value and take care of their people.
Having a strong set of core values is essential to this, and Power Testing use these values to shape their everyday behaviour & decision making and affect how they work as a team.
- Safety First: Making sure everyone is safe, physically & psychologically.
- TEAM work: Together everyone achieves more.
- Development: Continuously learning & growing.
- Setting the Standards: Offering expertise, professionalism, and respect.
- Striving to be the Best: Never accepting 2nd best.
Hear from Steve Gatward, Head of Operations at Power Testing:
"We have seen major growth in recent years and progress is impossible without change - and when I say change, I mean improvement. A strengths-based culture has been successfully implemented, whereby focus is put on our people's strengths and how to effectively maximise them to improve their performance - individually and collectively as a team.
Power Testing Ltd belongs to everyone that contributes to its success, and we promote a 'Speak Up' culture, with an open and transparent environment. With an average length of service of 11+ years, people tend to stay with us for large parts of their career due to both personal and professional development, the support we offer and the safe environment we provide - from both a psychological and physical aspect.
Development plays a huge part at Power Testing, with bespoke development plans for our operational people to learn new skills and hone old ones that may have not been done for a while. Additionally, we encourage further education and sponsor our people's extracurricular activities.
We have a pay structure and a skills matrix for each position, ensuring that all our people know how to progress and what they can expect as they develop.
Oh and there is the small matter of recruitment too - with expansion comes lots of opportunity and roles in the business to fill. We are always on the lookout for good people that share our values and want to make a positive difference and keep us improving."
If that's still not enough to answer the question "why Power Testing?" you can read testimonials from employees below:
“Power Testing Ltd have helped me grow massively over the past 5 years since joining the business in 2018. A family run business with a family run attitude, job security and the opportunity to really make a difference. I joined Power Testing Ltd as an SAP in 2018 and through their development, training, exposure, and support I have been promoted to a Contract Engineer; responsible for 6 members of staff and managing Power Testing's largest clients from Investment Banks to Data Centres in and around London including iconic buildings and electrical infrastructure.
Over the past 5 years I have had the opportunity to upskill in many areas, including but not limited to; HV & LV protection testing, PFC maintenance, switchgear and transformer maintenance, cable fault location, fault finding, HV & LV switching, power quality analysis, partial discharge testing, harmonic filter testing and installation projects for switchgear, battery chargers, transformers and PFC units including commissioning.
To assist with my continued development as a Middle Manager, Power Testing provides Middle Management Training which focuses on your natural leadership strengths.
These strengths are then utilised and developed to support myself and my team in the best way possible. This training also puts a focus on giving and receiving feedback, which gives me support when managing performance and development.”
Michael Westley - Contract Engineer and Structured Training Programme Assessor
“Since I’ve worked for Power Testing, the support and training has exceeded my expectations. Always looking to progress their staff and train them the best they can, offering external courses to attend as well as internal training with the staff that have been in the industry a long time, so its great to have knowledge passed on to the newer staff.
As employees we have a clear vision of what skills we need to gain to progress through the ranks with the use of the skills matrix, which also allows Power Testing to allocate us jobs that suit our needs to develop. Overall, a great company to work for, with great support and training.”
Dan Stone - Grade 2 Technician
