John Wright Electrical & Mechanical Services
A note from Identify Digital

John Wright Electrical & Mechanical Services

Hi Jon,

Straight up — this is outreach. I came across JWEMS while looking at M&E contractors in Yorkshire, and the scale of your operation stood out.

I put this page together so you can see what we actually looked at before getting in touch.

What we found — The business

A 28-year-old national M&E contractor with 70+ engineers — serious scale for a privately-run operation

You've built a substantial M&E contracting business out of York. 70+ engineers working nationally across utility, infrastructure, industrial and renewable energy sectors. That's the kind of business where coordinating people, jobs, compliance and equipment across multiple sites every day is genuinely complex.

Founded in 1997, still privately run — which means the systems you use have probably evolved alongside the business rather than being designed for it.

Est. 1997
York, North Yorkshire
70+ Engineers
National Contractor
M&E Installation & Maintenance
What caught our attention — The gap

Managing 70+ field engineers nationally without a proper job platform is where things tend to get complicated

From looking at your setup, there's no visible client portal, online job booking, or field engineer app. That's not unusual — most M&E contractors at your size are running on some combination of spreadsheets, shared drives and phone calls. It works until it doesn't.

At 70+ engineers across multiple sectors and sites, the overhead in coordination, compliance tracking, job progress, plant and equipment management adds up. The bigger the team, the more that overhead costs you in time and lost visibility.

Positive signal

28 years and a national footprint shows the operational capability is already there

You clearly know how to deliver at scale. A proper operations platform wouldn't change how you work — it would give your team better tools to do what they already do well: less time chasing paperwork, more visibility on every job, and compliance that doesn't require someone to manually chase it.

What we'd typically build for an operation like yours

  • Job booking and scheduling — allocate engineers to jobs, track progress, flag issues in real time
  • Site app for engineers — job details, risk assessments, sign-off, photos, timesheets on their phone
  • Compliance tracking — RAMS, certifications, plant inspection records, all in one place
  • Quoting and invoicing — from enquiry to payment without double-keying
  • Reporting dashboard — job costs, engineer utilisation, WIP, client reporting
Our approach

We start with an on-site Operations Audit

Before we build anything, we come to you. Half a day on-site to map how your jobs flow from first contact to final invoice, where the friction is, and what a platform built around your processes would actually look like. You get a visual process map, gap analysis and ballpark costs — useful regardless of whether we go further.

If any of this sounds familiar, it's worth a quick conversation.

Book a call with Liam Or reply to the email that brought you here.