Air Conditioning Engineer in Chatham

Are you an Experienced Air Conditioning Engineer with at least 2 years experience specifically of Installations? Are you someone who excels at your profession and wants to be rewarded in line with your capabilities & Quality output? If that’s you we want to hear from you.

The package: £80,000 (OTE) Made up of:

• Base salary: £60,000. This is the figure you can rely on. We've set it at the top of the market deliberately, because we're hiring for standards, not corner-cutting.
• Performance bonus: up to £20,000 per year, on top of base. Built entirely around quality, not volume - the more consistently you install well, the more you earn.

It breaks down as:

• Quarterly quality bonus - up to £16,000/year
• Customer reviews - 4.5+ average across your completed installs
• Commissioning quality - full checklist completed, signed off and evidenced
• Callback performance - a low ratio of return visits on your own installations
• Apprentice development bonus - £4,000 one-off paid when a supplied apprentice reaches sign-off as competent to work independently (typically 12–18 months).

Also included:

• Company van
• Fuel card
• Tools
• PPE
• Uniform
• Nest Pension
• 20 days holiday and bank holidays

About us: Urban Cooling install discreet, high-end air conditioning into people's homes, often period and heritage properties where a conventional external condenser was never an option. Our systems are fully internal and water‑cooled, and several are patented (Incognito and Discreet). The work is technically distinctive, and every job is in a customer's home carrying our name. We've deliberately moved away from per-unit subcontract installation. That model rewards speed over doing the job right, and it's the wrong fit for what we build and who we build it for. This is a permanent PAYE role built around the opposite: quality, ownership, and standards we're proud to put reviews against.

The role: You’ll install our internal water‑cooled and patented systems into occupied residential properties, commission them fully and correctly, and own the quality of your own work from first fix to sign‑off. You’ll represent Urban Cooling in the customer's home and as you establish yourself, you’ll help bring on an apprentice of your own.

What you’ll do:

• Install our internal water‑cooled and patented systems (Incognito / Discreet) to specification, in occupied heritage and residential properties
• Commission every system fully and correctly, with checklist sign‑off and evidence, no shortcuts
• Represent Urban Cooling in the customer's home: clean, courteous, tidy, on time, respectful of the property
• Own the quality of your own installations, including putting right any snags on your own work
• Secure customer reviews and feedback at handover
• Mentor and develop a supplied apprentice toward independent working
• Keep accurate, timely job records

What we need from you:

• Proven air conditioning / refrigeration installation experience
• F‑Gas certification
• A genuinely customer‑facing manner, non‑negotiable; you're working in people's homes
• High standards on finish, cleanliness and commissioning quality
• Full UK driving licence
• Comfortable working with internal water‑cooled systems, or able to learn fast & full product training provided

How we work: We back our engineers with training, good kit and a proper package, and in return we expect the work to be right first time. Because you own your own installations, doing the job well means you're rarely called back to it. Get it right, and both the quality bonus and your own time are yours to keep. If you want to join a Well‑Established Business, and be a Catalyst for their Future Growth, then this is the job for you! Come join our team and contribute to our mission of delivering exceptional air conditioning installations. Our selection process is unique in the marketplace and attracts motivated, productive team members, who we know will be successful and have a great career with us.