Gas Engineer

Full Time, Permanent Role

Salary up to £36,986.95 per annum, plus company van & fuel card.

Celtic Horizons is a forward-thinking organisation committed to enhancing the lives of our communities and customers. We take pride in delivering an outstanding service to our customers, ensuring their homes are safe, comfortable and well-maintained. We deliver over 35,000 annual repairs, void refurbishments and planned upgrades. Celtic Horizons also delivers estate services for United Welsh, including gas servicing, grounds maintenance, cleaning and facility management.

About The Role

We are looking for a fully qualified Gas Engineer with plumbing experience to join our expanding team to work within a busy environment. You will be responsible for carrying out a range of gas and plumbing work to our clients' housing stock to ensure that appliances and installations which are worked on are safe for continued use. This position is a field-based role, central in and around Caerphilly but with travel to such areas as Cardiff, Newport, The Valleys and Swansea. A company van and fuel card are provided for the travel and your work would be grouped for the day, so you’d cover one area at a time.

Principle Accountabilities

• To ensure that ALL gas work is carried in accordance with The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 as amended and in line with the requirements of Mears Gas Procedures and Policies.
• To carry out gas repair work as per works orders and in accordance with standard operating procedures to ensure commercial requirements for the number of visits, quality and workmanship, service user satisfaction and costs are met.
• To provide a comprehensive gas maintenance and installation service within domestic premises, the work must be carried out in accordance with the relevant regulations, standards, and departmental procedures. The applicant must be gas qualified and hold current Domestic ACS certification or equivalent in the categories of work required and complete and to maintain all paperwork and electronic data records relevant to the work carried out to ensure completion of the job is confirmed and a comprehensive and accurate history is available for audit purposes, which includes quality, H&S issues and for invoicing purposes.
• To seek authorisation from relevant office-based approver before proceeding if work required differs from works order, and document in full any additional works carried out to ensure correct invoicing can be applied.
• To utilise existing stock or collect materials as and when required to meet works orders, in accordance with standard operating procedures for purchasing and van stock control compliance.
• To highlight any safeguarding concerns to the relevant customer and Community officer within branch as early as possible to ensure they liaise with the client in accordance with the safeguarding policy.
• To participate in call out cover if and when required to ensure contract compliance & service user satisfaction for emergency repairs.

Role Criteria

• Qualified to City and Guilds/ Gas Service Engineer standard and hold appropriate ACS certification CCN1, CENWAT, HTR1, CKR1 and CPA1 minimum.
• Good understanding of current legislation, building control requirements and governing body requirements.
• Hands on plumbing experience and skills.
• Hold a full, UK driving license.
• Ideally previous domestic, social housing experience.

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.

Benefits We Can Offer You

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Annual Mears Fun Day - Our annual Fun Day is organised as a massive thank you from the Executive team for all the hard work!
• Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake paid volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment.
• Staff perks with Mears Rewards - discounts of up to 10% weekly groceries, holidays, eye test vouchers, Share save scheme, plus much more.
• Family friendly policies.
• Company Van, Fuel Card and Uniform.

If you need any help with your application process, we are here to support you. We will be accessible every step of the way.

At Mears Group, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, we are a Disability Confident employer, valuing individuality and ensuring equal opportunities for all.

We proudly support the Armed Forces Covenant and are honoured to have achieved the Gold Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) to coincide with this, we hold an Endorser Award for the Career Transition Partnership, recognising our commitment to veterans transitioning into civilian careers.

In our continued effort to promote social mobility, we invite applicants to voluntarily share their background information during the application stages to help us better understand the diverse experiences of our candidates. This is to ensure we are committed to improving social mobility.