Industries / Electrical Utilities
Utilities labour, with cards and authorisations tracked separately.
Book the work, hold each person’s card and authorisation, record the hours, and pay and bill from them.
Authorisation is held per site and per voltage, with its own expiry date, separately from the trade card.
Cards and authorisations tracked separately.
A trade card says what somebody is qualified to do. It does not say what they are authorised to do on your network, and our system keeps the two apart so you can check both.
Authorisation held per site and per voltage
Our system holds authorised and senior authorised status as its own credential with its own expiry date, alongside the trade card. That catches somebody with a live card and a lapsed authorisation, which is not something you can spot by looking.
Both checks on every booking
Site access and trade competence are separate requirements, and our software checks both on every booking. Neither is ever assumed from the other.
A work record you can go back to
Which person, which permit, which day, against which cost code. It is recorded as the work happens, so there is nothing to piece together when somebody asks later.
A framework filled by more than one supplier.
Our system gives you one view of who is authorised across every gang on the contract, including gangs you do not employ.
Subcontract without losing track of authorisationIn build
Authorisation does not transfer with a subcontract, so you can see who holds what, on which network, at what voltage. It saves assuming a gang is cleared for work it is not.
One application, every supplierIn build
Hours from all your gangs come in against the same cost codes and go to your client once. You are not normalising three formats before you can submit.
Suppliers billed from signed hoursIn build
Your suppliers are self-billed from the hours your client approved, so both sides of the contract come from one set of numbers.
Rate cards by skill, not by day.
Utilities work is skilled and paid accordingly. Our system lets you price by skill and applies it for you, so the admin is not where that margin goes.
A different rate for each skill
You can have an HV jointer, an LV jointer and a mate on the same job on three rates from one rate card, applied to the hours without anybody working it out. The payslip and the invoice both come from it.
Four expiry dates, one warning list
Trade card, safety passport, authorisation and medical all renew separately, and our system tracks each of them. You hear about it while there is still time to book the course.
Standby, call-out and travel
Paid as they were worked and billed as they were agreed, out of the same hours, so you are not reconciling two versions of the same week.
What we check in electrical utilities
Site access and trade competence
The safety passport and the trade card are separate credentials. Both are held and both are checked.
Authorisation renews on its own date
It expires independently of the trade card, so it is tracked and warned about separately.
The schemes, and how each card gets checked
Set up already, with the awarding body and the way each card is checked.
- Checked against the scheme
JIB / ECS
The electrotechnical card. Grade follows qualification and assessed competence, not job title.
- Checked automatically
EUSR
Utilities registration — National Water Hygiene, and the SHEA passports for site access across water, power and gas.
- Checked and recorded
GWO
Global Wind Organisation basic safety training, for work on turbines onshore and offshore.
- Checked and recorded
City & Guilds
The qualification route behind the card — inspection and testing, the wiring regulations, and the security clearances a licensed site gates on.
And these, added as data
Added during setup, and checked the same way as the ones above.
- AP / SAP authorisation — Issued by the network operator or site owner, for a stated voltage and scope.
Roles we set up most often
Requirements attach to the role, so the check runs on every booking. Your own list is set up during onboarding.
- Electrician
- An ECS card at the grade the qualification supports, and the current wiring regulations.
- Approved electrician
- The higher ECS grade, on assessed competence.
- Cable jointer (LV)
- ECS plus jointing competence for the type of joint and cable.
- Cable jointer (HV)
- The HV jointing competence, and the site authorisation.
- Overhead linesperson
- Linesworker competence, pole-top rescue, and the site access passport.
- Authorised Person (LV or HV)
- Authorisation from the operator for that voltage and that site, on top of the trade card.
- Senior Authorised Person
- The senior authorisation, for switching schedules and oversight of other APs.
- Wind turbine technician
- GWO basic safety modules, plus working at height and rescue.
What we can show you today
Electrical Utilities is set up during onboarding with your own roles and cards. We will show you the same system running for construction, rail or warehousing first.
Send us your requirements
Send us the cards and checks your electrical utilities sites ask for. We will set them up in Bonim and show you the checks running.