Commercial Gas Catering Engineer – London / Leeds / Birmingham

Miller’s Recruitment; Ovingdean; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training via City & Guilds academy

Company Pension

32 days holiday including bank

Uniform & tooling

Staff events

Job summary

Miller's Vanguard is hiring a Commercial Gas Catering Engineer to install, service, and maintain gas-fired catering equipment across restaurants, hotels, schools, and other commercial kitchens. You will ensure safe, efficient operation and compliance with current gas regulations.

Key responsibilities include installation, fault diagnosis, routine maintenance, safety inspections, and clear reporting. On-call duties may apply to ensure prompt service delivery to clients.

Qualifications

• Valid Gas Safe registration with relevant commercial catering qualifications (e.g., CCCN1, COMCAT 1, 3 and 5).
• Proven experience working with commercial catering equipment in a service or installation role.
• Strong understanding of gas safety, ventilation requirements, and combustion analysis.
• Electrical competency (e.g., 17th/18th Edition or equivalent) is desirable.
• Full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Install, commission, and test commercial gas catering appliances such as ovens, grills, fryers, combi ovens, and water boilers.
• Diagnose faults and carry out repairs on a wide range of gas and electrical catering equipment.
• Perform routine preventative maintenance and safety inspections in line with manufacturer guidelines and industry standards.
• Ensure all work complies with Gas Safe regulations and relevant health and safety legislation.
• Provide clear service reports, documentation, and recommendations for further work.
• Communicate effectively with customers, site managers, and internal teams to ensure smooth service delivery.
• Maintain company tools, equipment, and vehicle to a high standard.
• Participate in an on-call rota for emergency breakdowns where required.

Skills

Gas Safe registration

Electrical competency

UK driving licence

Education

COMCAT 1, 3 and 5

CCCN1

Job description

We're looking for aCommercial Gas Catering Engineer responsible for installing, servicing, and maintaining commercial gas-fired catering equipment across restaurants, hotels, schools, hospitals, and other commercial kitchens. Ensuring all appliances for our customers operate safely, efficiently, and in compliance with current gas regulations.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, commission, and test commercial gas catering appliances such as ovens, grills, fryers, combi ovens, and water boilers.
• Diagnose faults and carry out repairs on a wide range of gas and electrical catering equipment.
• Perform routine preventative maintenance and safety inspections in line with manufacturer guidelines and industry standards.
• Ensure all work complies with Gas Safe regulations and relevant health and safety legislation.
• Provide clear service reports, documentation, and recommendations for further work.
• Communicate effectively with customers, site managers, and internal teams to ensure smooth service delivery.
• Maintain company tools, equipment, and vehicle to a high standard.
• Participate in an on-call rota for emergency breakdowns where required.

Ideal Candidate

• Valid Gas Safe registration with relevant commercial catering qualifications (e.g., CCCN1, COMCAT 1, 3 and 5).
• Proven experience working with commercial catering equipment in a service or installation role.
• Strong understanding of gas safety, ventilation requirements, and combustion analysis.
• Electrical competency (e.g., 17th/18th Edition or equivalent) is desirable.
• Full UK driving licence.

Company Information

Who are we?

Miller's Vanguard are proud to have been supporting all the UK's Supermarket chains for over 40 years, in brief, we are the people in the background ensuring that supermarkets keep the Nation fed! Maintaining a wide and varied range of assets from food production equipment through to loading bay lifts.

Our services are as follows

• Nationwide reactive maintenance
• Hygienic Deep cleaning & Planned maintenance services
• Refurbishment, logistics and installation of equipment

We do all of this with the firm foundations of being owned by the global Ali Group, whose turnover is in excess of £4 billion p.a.

Our people

Despite being a large operation here at Miller's Vanguard we still firmly believe in running the business like we have done for the last 40 years, by valuing our biggest asset we have YOU…the employee.

Career Development

Training is also a huge part of our culture here at Miller's Vanguard and our City and Guilds accredited training centre is where we coach and develop our employees regardless of your position or your length of service, we want to make sure that our staff can progress and keep pace with ever changing equipment technologies.

Why Join Us

• Training in our City & Guilds accredited academy
• Job Specific Uniform & tooling for all roles
• Company wide fun days and charity events
• Company Pension
• 32 days holiday allowance including bank holidays.
• Regular staff 'treats' for employees and their families