Service & Maintenance Engineer
Location: Thurso / Caithness area
Salary: £40,000-£48,000 depending on experience
Hours: Monday to Thursday 7:00am-5:00pm, half day Friday
Contract: Permanent
We are recruiting for an experienced Service & Maintenance Engineer to join a growing renewables and heating business covering the Thurso and wider Caithness area.
This is a field-based role focused on diagnosing faults, carrying out maintenance, servicing and repairs across domestic heating and renewable energy systems.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in heating, service engineering or renewables and will be confident working independently in customers' homes.
The Role
As Service & Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Carrying out planned and reactive servicing
- Fault finding and diagnosing heating system issues
- Repairing and maintaining heat pump systems
- Supporting air source and ground source heat pump installations
- Working across oil and gas heating systems where required
- Attending customer properties across the local area
- Identifying faults quickly and completing first-time fixes where possible
- Carrying out routine inspections and preventative maintenance
- Completing service reports and job documentation
- Ordering or identifying required parts
- Ensuring work is completed safely and to required standards
- Providing a professional service to domestic customers
- Working independently while keeping the wider team updated
What We're Looking For
We are looking for someone with strong practical engineering ability and good fault-finding skills.
Ideally, you will have experience across some of the following:
- Heat pumps
- Air source heat pumps
- Ground source heat pumps
- Domestic heating
- Oil heating systems
- Gas heating systems
- HVAC
- Mechanical servicing
- Electrical fault finding
- Pumps, valves and controls
- Renewable heating systems
You do not necessarily need experience across every area. The key requirement is strong diagnostic ability and confidence maintaining heating or mechanical systems.
Experience
Ideally, candidates will have:
- 5+ years' experience within heating, service engineering, HVAC, renewables or a related field
- Strong fault-finding and diagnostic experience
- Experience working independently
- Good customer-facing skills
- Ability to manage service calls efficiently
- Experience working within domestic environments
- Full UK driving licence
Location
Candidates should ideally live within approximately one hour of Thurso, due to the field-based nature of the role.
Package
- £40,000-£48,000 depending on experience
- Permanent position
- Local territory
- Monday to Thursday 7:00am-5:00pm
- Half day Friday
- Long-term opportunity within a growing renewables business
Recruitment Process
The process is expected to be straightforward, with a direct interview with the Managing Director.
If you have a strong background in heating, maintenance, HVAC or renewable energy systems and are looking for a long-term role in the Caithness area, we would be keen to hear from you.
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