Careers

We believe our people are our greatest asset so we became an employee owned company. It is their talent, expertise, motivation and commitment which drives and enhances our continued success. We value each individual within our workforce.

Everyone has the opportunity to make the most of their skills and abilities and our people are supported in this through a mentoring scheme and full on the job coaching and training.

In essence, we encourage excellence and high personal integrity from all our staff, in all their activities. Ongoing training and personal development is at the core of this ethos. In return we offer a competitive salary, a contributory company pension scheme and a range of other industry-leading fringe benefits. If you are interested in working for us, please view the list of current vacancies.

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Current vacancies

Mechanical Estimator

Living

Birmingham

Full Time

Mechanical Project Manager

Special Projects

Northampton

Full Time

Mechanical Pipe Fitter

Special Projects

Northampton

Full Time

Electrical Estimator

Engineering Services

Northampton

Full Time

Invoicing & Mobilisation Team Apprentice

Building Services Maintenance

Alfreton, South Normanton

Full Time

Aftercare Coordinator

Living

Northampton

Full Time

Senior Mechanical Estimator

Engineering Services

Northampton

Full Time

Housing 1st, 2nd Fixing Plumbers

Living

Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Milton Keynes

Full Time

Gas Safe Plumbers

Living

Northamptonshire and Surrounding areas

Full Time

Mechanical Design Engineer

Engineering Services

Northampton office - possible consideration for Cambridge or London office for the right candidate

Full Time

Mechanical Design Engineer

Engineering Services

Northampton office - possible consideration for Cambridge or London office for the right candidate

Full Time

Gas Safe Plumbers

Living

Northamptonshire and Surrounding areas

Full Time

Housing 1st, 2nd Fixing Plumbers

Living

Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Milton Keynes

Full Time

Senior Mechanical Estimator

Engineering Services

Northampton

Full Time

Aftercare Coordinator

Living

Northampton

Full Time

Invoicing & Mobilisation Team Apprentice

Building Services Maintenance

Alfreton, South Normanton

Full Time

Electrical Estimator

Engineering Services

Northampton

Full Time

Mechanical Pipe Fitter

Special Projects

Northampton

Full Time

Mechanical Project Manager

Special Projects

Northampton

Full Time

Mechanical Estimator

Living

Birmingham

Full Time

Technical apprenticeships

As a company that is renowned as one of the leading players in the building services industry, we feel a strong responsibility to shine a light on future talents and provide opportunities to help develop their skills.

Briggs & Forrester offer a variety of apprenticeships that will put you on the right track for your future career. Whether you’re interested in estimating, operations, design, procurement, planning, or commercial, you’ll find something in our programme that will suit you.

We’re proud of our apprenticeship programme and work hard to open the door to those who are ready to make serious progress in their career. The programme has produced some of the best and brightest, who have been recognised with awards from World Skills, H&V News, BESA and The Worship Company of Plumbers.

Our apprenticeship scheme is open for applications from April to August, to apply please see our vacancies above.

Work experience placements

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The Briggs & Forrester apprenticeship programme is great. The fact that you can gain experience in each department and then decide which one you would like to specialise in makes it a great learning experience with a wide range of routes you can take within the company. I haven’t seen many opportunities like that elsewhere.

Josh Daley, Apprentice
Briggs & Forrester Engineering Services

Briggs & Forrester put a lot of time, money and effort into training young people to help them progress in their careers to get them where they want to be. The Briggs & Forrester Apprenticeship is a really supportive learning environment providing loads of opportunity for apprentices to achieve their career goals.

Henry Starky, Apprentice
Briggs & Forrester Engineering Services

Perks of the job

Here at Briggs & Forrester, we value our employees and want them to have a significant and meaningful stake in the business. Our employee ownership trust panel allows employees to have a voice.

We invest in our staff’s well-being. We offer mental health first aiders across all regions and companies. We choose to educate our staff with well-being information in order to better understand the experiences many of us go through.

Here at Briggs & Forrester we recognise the benefit of giving individuals more autonomy when it comes to their holidays. That’s why we have a scheme where you can buy and sell additional holidays throughout the year.

If you’re looking to be more environmentally conscious or just enjoy the benefits of riding a bike to work then we can support you through the cycle-to-work scheme where we can support you in a bike purchase.

To further support you at work and your mental health we have a program that you’ll have access to, where you can get advice, counselling and signposting.

We offer access to a discounted exercise and wellbeing app. We value the importance of both being physically fit and its benefits on an individual’s mental health too.

Why work with us?

Our Values

Excellence – We strive to provide excellence at every level – it’s the Briggs & Forrester way

Integrity and honesty – Our teams pride themselves on providing an honest and open approach that benefits our clients, supply chain, and us.

Reliable and secure – With four companies and a combined turnover of over £230m you can be safe in the knowledge that our teams will be there for the duration of the project and beyond

Customer service – We believe that offering excellent customer service is integral to a successful business, our business has grown thanks to our strong client and supply chain relationships

Working culture

People are our greatest asset – we believe that our success is because of our people. In 2020 we became an employee-owned company – giving our employees long term security and a voice. In addition we run an annual apprenticeship scheme and provide regular training for our existing employees.

Health and safety is our number 1 priority – we are highly accredited including ISO 9001, 45000 and 14000 and run our own behavioral safety initiative called OUR highlighting the importance of safety in how we act.

Excellence at every level – this is our motto and is embedded in our day-to-day operations ensuring we deliver not only to our customers on quality and service but also to our people who bring our business to life and ensure its growth and success.

Career progression

As part of The 5% Club we are committed to achieving 5% of our employees in earn while you learn positions. We are currently exceeding this thanks to our commitment not only to our apprenticeship scheme but to providing further training or apprentice opportunities to our existing employees including support of additional recognised qualifications and chartered schemes such as RICS, CIM and CIBSE.

In addition, we provide regular and mandatory health and safety training which is monitored by our in-house health and safety department, this includes training such as SMSTS, SSSTS, CSCS and task-specific training.

I think the best thing about Briggs & Forrester is the people, it is what a business is, it’s based on its people and I think a lot goes into finding the right characters, it’s great having them on board and witnessing their development.

Ian Lawrence, Board Director & Managing Director for Engineering Services

Meet the team

75 years exceeding expectations

Briggs & Forrester has established itself as a leading player in the industry. We have been at the forefront of the building service industry for 75 years and are totally committed to quality, service and innovation.

£230m+ annual turnover

Our group has surpassed turnover targets and improve on performance year after year. We currently have a turnover in excess of £230m.

Employee owned company

Briggs & Forrester is an employee owned company with both the breadth of experience and skilled staff to undertake projects in virtually all market sectors. We currently have over 900 team members and continue to grow each year.

15+ accreditations & certifications

The Briggs & Forrester Group is renowned for excellence and innovation within the building service industry. We have over 15 industry accreditations and certifications across the group.