Commercial Gas Engineer

London sites in care, education, hospitality, retail and the public sector depend on safe, reliable gas, heating and hot water. You will be the engineer clients see when plant fails, planned work is due, or a plant room needs a clear call: repair, upgrade or replace. This role exists to keep people warm, kitchens running and buildings compliant — and to do it with integrity, expertise and speed.

Performance Objectives

• Restore commercial gas appliances, boilers and plant-room equipment to safe, reliable operation on first visit wherever parts and access allow.
• Complete planned inspections and servicing so contracted assets stay compliant, documented and free of avoidable breakdowns.
• Attend emergency call-outs on a 1-in-6 rota, diagnose faults and keep clients informed until the job is closed.
• Install or support installation of gas appliances and heating plant to specification, Gas Safe requirements and agreed programme.
• Advise site teams when repair is no longer the right call, and supply accurate parts, labour and lead-time data for quotations.
• Hit health and safety, workmanship and profit-after-controllable-expenses targets, and follow core workflows without rework.
• Act as the regional subject-matter expert in one key gas competency, raising standards across the team.

Environment & Resources

You will work in a regional team of up to 20 directly employed commercial engineers, backed by a central technical support desk, parts and supplier contacts, and a van stock suited to reactive and planned gas work. You report to your regional engineering lead, cover a portfolio of key sites, and use the business job, quoting and compliance systems. Salary is negotiable with experience. Flexibility to cover colleagues and work outside core hours is part of the role.

Essential Qualifications

• Current commercial Gas Safe registration and ACS qualifications covering the appliances and plant you will service; catering and LPG categories a bonus but not essential.
• Proven commercial mechanical, heating and hot-water experience, including fault-finding on plant-room equipment.
• Clean, current UK driving licence and the right to work in the UK.
• Able to pass a DBS check; client sites include vulnerable people. A disclosure is not an automatic bar — discuss it with HR.
• Clear written and verbal updates for clients, colleagues and quotations, plus basic digital job recording.
• Independent judgement on site, with the discipline to work to safe systems and team standards.

Role Selling Points

• Basic salary to £55k, £140 Standby, OT (typically essential and key customer rather than loaded - but if you want the extra work it is there, Bonus (paid monthly)
• Directly employed, not subcontracted — regional hubs, uniformed engineers and a real technical back-up when a job gets difficult.
• Varied commercial portfolio across care, education, leisure, hospitality, retail and public sector, not a single-site routine.
• Van, Medical cover, employee assistance, critical illness, insured health (up to two years' sickness, subject to criteria), death in service, Cycle to Work, company pension and an extra day's holiday after three years.
• Room to be the expert your region relies on, and a voice in upgrade decisions, not just call-out labour.

Call to Action

If you hold the tickets, own the outcome and want clients to trust you with their plant rooms, apply online. Bring your qualifications, commercial gas experience and examples of jobs you closed safely and first time.