HVAC Engineer

Roundhouse recruitment; England; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading university is seeking an HVAC Engineer to maintain and improve HVAC systems across a large estate. Enjoy over 40 days paid leave, generous overtime, and university-funded courses that can enhance your salary. This role offers a chance to work in a beautiful environment with clear pathways for career advancement and extensive professional development opportunities.

Benefits

40+ days paid leave

Generous overtime

University-funded courses

Qualifications

• Proven commercial experience with boilers, pumps, AHUs.
• Comfortable producing compliance paperwork.
• Experience with BMS fault-finding.

Responsibilities

• Deliver planned & reactive HVAC maintenance.
• Produce quotations, permits, and RAMS.
• Mentor apprentices and supervise contractors.

Skills

Fault-finding

Plumbing

HVAC Maintenance

Mentoring

Education

NVQ/C&G Level 3 or higher in Mechanical HVAC / Plumbing & Heating

Job description

HVAC Engineer (University Campus)

• 40+ days paid leave
• 36–hour week, 4pm finish
• 3.8 k on–call retainer
• Generous overtime (time–and–a–half Mon–Sat, double time Sun/after midnight).
• University–funded courses (Gas Safe, Unvented, Oil, BMS, Cat & Genny, etc.) add 600– 1,200 to salary per qualification.
• Work across a "university–within–a–park" estate
• Clear path into Authorised–Person duties, section lead roles and University–wide projects, all within a well–resourced in–house team

Are you an HVAC engineer craving better work–life balance and bigger earnings through generous overtime? Join a picturesque university estate where you enjoy 40 + days' holiday as well as substantial salary enhancements and funded qualifications that lift your salary every year.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a large, multi–building campus renowned for its beauty, outstanding benefits and great work environment. You'll shape the HVAC service and maintain, fault–find and improve commercial heating and ventilation while enjoying stability, career pathways and a work–life balance rarely found.

In this position you will maintain, fault–find and improve commercial heating and ventilation plant across a 300–building estate. From daily PPMs and reactive repairs to producing RAMS, mentoring apprentices and supervising contractors, your remit spans day–to–day engineering and long–term asset planning–all with the tools, budget and processes of a major public–sector employer.

This role entitles you to 40 days annual leave (including Christmas & Easter closures), free training that triggers 600– 1,200 allowances per ticket, an on call rota which pays 4000 extra on your salary.

The Role:

• Deliver planned & reactive HVAC maintenance, ensuring statutory compliance
• Produce quotations, permits and RAMS; keep CAFM/PPM systems fully updated
• Mentor apprentices, supervise specialist contractors and support energy–saving projects

The Person:

• Holds NVQ/C&G Level 3 (or higher) in Mechanical HVAC / Plumbing & Heating
• Has proven commercial experience with boilers, pumps, AHUs and BMS fault–finding
• Is comfortable producing compliance paperwork and joining the on–call rota

Extra–Earning Allowances (Grade 5 Trades)

Earn up to 1,200 extra per year – the University funds the training, you bank the allowance.

• Apprentice Mentor – coaching new apprentices 600
• BMS / Controls Triage (Schneider, Trend, etc.) 600
• Thermography (ITC Level 1) – thermal–camera inspections 600
• Cat & Genny Utility Scanning – safe digs 600
• Electric Steam–Boiler Operator 600
• OFTEC (Oil–Boiler) Engineer 600
• Unvented Hot–Water Systems (BPEC) 600
• Pressure Systems & Air Compressors 1,200
• GasSafe – Core Domestic 600
• GasSafe – Core Commercial & Boilers 1,200
• Steel / Cast–Iron Pipework Welding 600

Apply Now – step into a role where your skills, overtime and paid qualifications all add up.