Gas Service Engineer

Meridian Business Support Ltd; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary £37,850 + overtime

27 days holidays + bank holidays

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Job summary

Meridian Business Support Ltd is recruiting a Gas Service Engineer to service and maintain a range of domestic heating appliances across the Midlands, including Birmingham and Coventry. The role is mobile, with overnight stays 2–4 nights per week, and a fully equipped van provided.

You will perform warranty and annual service work on Gas, Electric and Solid Fuel heating systems, ensuring safety and first-time resolution. The position is full-time and permanent with company benefits.

Qualifications

• Proven experience servicing domestic heating appliances
• Gas Safe qualifications and related accreditations
• Clean UK driving licence
• Knowledge of safety regulations for gas/electric/solid fuel appliances
• Willingness to travel across the Midlands (Birmingham, Coventry)

Responsibilities

• Carry out service and warranty calls in a professional, timely and accurate manner
• Identify causes and determine fault responsibility for on-site charges
• Ensure user safety in line with installation/use regulations
• issue safety notices when required and complete paperwork after visits
• record tests and work performed and upload data to company database

Tools

Email

Word

Job description

Gas Service Engineer

The Company:

Are you somebody who loves variety in your workload, and can travel throughout a geographical area, covering the Midlands (to include areas such as Birmingham and Coventry)? You will be servicing and maintaining abroad range of heating products including Gas, Electric and Solid fuel domestic heating appliances? As a mobile Gas Service Engineer you will need to be happy to sometimes stay away from home for 2-4 nights per week. Your primary responsibility will be the completion of warranty and annual service work for Gas, Electric and Solid Fuel heating appliances. There's no messy installation work, and you get paid every day for the work you do: it's a full time, permanent job, with benefits and no self employed admin headache! You'll be provided with a fully equipped van and all of your overnight accommodation will be paid for up front.

Job Responsibilities:

• To ensure all service and warranty calls are carried out in a professional, timely and accurate manner, ensuring that the issues are properly and fully resolved during the first visit.
• To correctly identify the reason for the reported issue and determine whether that issue falls within a company manufacturing fault or an installation/user fault, which will then be charged on site to the customer.
• To ensure the end user's safety in accordance with all the relevant regulations for installation and use.
• To issue any safety notices if required and to inform the relevant personnel and complete the company's required paperwork after each client visit.
• The service engineer is responsible for recording all of the tests and work carried out as well as the faults found. This recording will need to be completed on the laptop/iPad and uploaded regularly to the company's database.

Required Skills and Certifications:

• Proven experience of working with heating appliances or servicing comparable equipment in the field.
• CCN1 (Domestic Core Gas Safety), HTR1 (Gas Fires & Wall Heaters), CONGLP1 (LPG Changeover)
• CPA1 - Combustion Analysis
• GAS SAFE requirements (OFTEC also an advantage) OR RGI/II
• The following qualifications whilst not essential, would be an advantage:
• Part P Electrical Safety
• HETAS Certification
• Valid, clean UK driving licence
• Knowledge of software programmes including email and Word.

Associated Benefits:

• Basic salary of £37850 plus overtime, expenses, fully equipped van, mobile and laptop.
• 24 days holiday, increasing to 27 days based on yearly service, plus bank holidays.
• Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance

Working Hours:

8.30-5pm Mon-Fri with overnight stays required

Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.