Gas Engineer

Babcock Canada Inc.; Guildford; On-site; GBP 41,000 - GBP 49,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering company in Guildford is searching for a Gas Engineer to maintain crucial mechanical and heating systems at RSME Minley. Your role involves repairing commercial boilers, conducting inspections, and managing supplies. Candidates must have experience in mechanical maintenance and hold relevant qualifications, including a commercial gas safety certification. This full-time position offers competitive compensation, benefits, and a supportive work culture.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health consultations

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading benefit

One day’s paid leave for volunteering

Qualifications

• Experience with mechanical systems and equipment maintenance.
• Capable of conducting effective repairs and inspections.
• Comfortable handling manual work on large sites.

Responsibilities

• Carry out maintenance across mechanical systems.
• Conduct site checks and diagnose faults.
• Repair and service commercial boilers.

Skills

Strong mechanical maintenance and repair background

Experience working with commercial boilers

Fault diagnosis

Independent work

Education

CCN1 or COCN1 – Core Commercial Natural Gas Safety

Full UK manual driving licence

Job description

Compensation: From £41,960 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

The role

As a Gas Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will play a key role in maintaining the essential mechanical and heating systems that keep the RSME Minley estate running safely, efficiently and reliably. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact in defence, aerospace and engineering by ensuring critical facilities remain operational for those who rely on them every day.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:

• Carry out planned, reactive and remedial maintenance across mechanical systems and equipment
• Conduct site checks, weekly inspections and diagnose faults to deliver effective repairs
• Repair and service commercial boilers and support mechanical system upgrades or replacements
• Manage mechanical system supplies, ensuring correct inventory levels
• Complete occasional plumbing tasks as required

Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time.

The role is based onsite at RSME Minley, and the set working times are Monday to Thursday 8am to 4.30pm and Friday 8am to 4pm, totalling 40 hours per week.

Essential experience of the Gas Engineer:

• Strong mechanical maintenance and repair background
• Experience working with commercial boilers and associated systems
• Confidence carrying out fault diagnosis
• Comfortable working independently on a large site

Qualifications for the Gas Engineer:

• CCN1 or COCN1 – Core Commercial Natural Gas Safety
• Full UK manual driving licence

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.