At a Glance
- Tasks: Install, service, and repair heating systems for homes and businesses.
- Company: Join a reputable company focused on quality and customer satisfaction.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, training opportunities, and a supportive team environment.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for growth and skill development.
- Why this job: Make a difference by ensuring comfort and safety in people's homes.
- Qualifications: Gas Safe Registered with relevant plumbing and heating qualifications.
Reports to: Contracts Manager / Operations Manager
Job Overview
We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced
Heating Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the installation, servicing, maintenance, fault-finding and repair of domestic and commercial heating systems.
The ideal candidate will have comprehensive heating, gas and plumbing qualifications, strong technical knowledge, excellent workmanship and a professional approach to customer service.
Key Responsibilities
- Install, service, maintain and repair domestic and commercial heating systems.
- Diagnose and rectify heating system faults efficiently and safely.
- Install, commission and maintain boilers, central-heating systems, hot-water systems and associated equipment.
- Carry out boiler servicing, repairs and replacements.
- Install and maintain radiators, pumps, valves, cylinders, expansion vessels and heating controls.
- Install and maintain gas appliances where appropriately qualified.
- Carry out gas safety checks and relevant testing.
- Complete system upgrades, replacements and energy-efficiency improvements.
- Undertake plumbing works associated with heating installations.
- Carry out system flushing, cleaning and water-treatment procedures.
- Complete installation and service documentation accurately.
- Ensure all work complies with current UK legislation, manufacturer instructions and industry standards.
- Maintain excellent health and safety standards.
- Provide professional advice to customers and explain work carried out.
- Work independently and as part of a wider engineering team.
- Participate in emergency call-outs and out-of-hours work where required.
Essential Qualifications
Candidates should hold relevant qualifications appropriate to the work undertaken, including as applicable:
Gas Safe Registered with relevant domestic/commercial categories.
CCN1 - Core Domestic Gas Safety
CENWAT - Central Heating and Water Heating Appliances
CKR1 - Domestic Cookers
CPA1 - Combustion Performance Analysis
HTR1 - Domestic Open/Live Flued Gas Fires
DAH1 - Domestic Air Heating
- Relevant
commercial gas qualifications, where required.
Unvented Hot Water Systems (G3)
Energy Efficiency / Domestic Energy Efficiency
WRAS Water Regulations qualification/certification where applicable.
Level 2 or Level 3 Plumbing and Heating qualification or equivalent.
NVQ Level 2/3 in Plumbing and Heating, or equivalent industry experience.
ACS Gas qualifications appropriate to the engineer's scope of work.
- Relevant manufacturer training and accreditation for boilers and heating appliances.
Desirable Additional Qualifications
Heat Pump / Low Carbon Heating qualifications
MCS-related training/accreditation where applicable.
- Air-source and ground-source heat pump installation experience.
FGAS qualification where refrigeration/heat-pump work requires it.
- Solar thermal experience.
- Smart heating controls and system commissioning.
- Oil boiler qualifications, where applicable.
- Commercial heating and boiler qualifications.
- Unvented cylinders and hot-water systems.
- Working at Height.
- First Aid.
- Full UK Driving Licence.
Skills and Experience
- Proven experience as a Heating Engineer, Gas Engineer or Plumbing & Heating Engineer.
- Strong fault-finding and diagnostic ability.
- Excellent knowledge of central-heating and hot-water systems.
- Ability to read technical drawings and manufacturer instructions.
- Good understanding of heating controls and electrical components.
- High standard of workmanship and attention to detail.
- Ability to work safely and independently.
- Good customer-service and communication skills.
- Ability to complete paperwork, digital job sheets and compliance records.
- Commercial awareness and the ability to manage time effectively.
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