Sky Engineer Satellite TV Installations Engineer

Looking for an experienced Sky TV Installations and Service Engineer to work for a Sky business partner, on calls where the Sky customer is either getting or needs service on an existing Sky Q Satellite TV system.

This is the legacy system run off as Sky's Engineer's no longer do the calls on or install the SkyQ satellite dish systems.

The service area is West of London to North of London mostly the SL / HP and LU area.

This is price pre job, offered at £35 per Service Call, £40 for completed Installation, they offer 8 jobs a day, 5 days a week so weekly invoice should be around £1400+.

The payment process takes around 2 weeks, so you get paid weekly 2 weeks in arrears.

The Sky business partner can offer a company works van initially, to help new contractors get on board, they charge you £220 per week to borrow it, preference is for contractors to have their own vehicle.

The contractors either work under CIS with your UTR number as a self-employed contractor or via a Ltd Company. There is no PAYE option, this is only available as a sub-contract relationship.

To apply for this role you must:

  • have previously worked as a Sky Satellite TV Installations Engineer previously, and need only minimal retraining to start.
  • No issues providing a clean basic DBS check
  • Live in the West of / NW of N of London SL / HP / LU area.
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