Join Smart Heat Experts as our next Plumbing & Heating Engineer
Package opportunities from £40,000 to £52,000 plus, matched to your experience and ability, with no standard weekend working, company van, fuel card and a clear route into future skills.
This is not just another job in a van. We're building a team that takes pride in doing things properly, looking after customers, and developing skills for the future of heating, air conditioning and renewables.
- Staged salary from £40,000, rising to £52,000 and beyond as you progress
- Company van, fuel card and a quarterly quality bonus
- No standard weekend working and protected weekends
- Training pathway into air conditioning, heat pumps and renewables
- Local work around Haywards Heath and Mid Sussex
Gas Safe registered
Work done safely and to standard
Accredited and trusted
A company that takes qualifications seriously
You'll be joining a properly accredited local business, working with the manufacturers and standards bodies that customers know and trust.
A proper role with room to grow
Smart Heat Experts Ltd is growing, and we're looking for the right person to join the team long term. The ideal engineer will already be confident with plumbing and heating work, hold the right gas qualifications, and care about doing a clean, safe and professional job.
You'll be working across boiler servicing, heating repairs, general plumbing, breakdowns, installations and everyday customer work. Over time, there will also be opportunities to develop further into air conditioning, heat pumps and renewables.
We care about qualifications, but we also care about attitude. We want someone who turns up properly, communicates well, respects customers' homes and wants to keep improving.
Local work across Haywards Heath and Mid Sussex, in customers' homes every day.
Pay matched to your experience, ability and ambition
We know not every good engineer is at the same stage.
Some engineers are already strong across servicing, repairs and fault-finding. Others have the right qualifications, a great attitude and want the chance to grow into higher-value work.
That is why we do not want to box the role into one flat salary. The package will be matched to your current ability, experience, customer care and long-term potential.
Growth Engineer
£40,000 to £44,000
For a qualified gas engineer with solid plumbing and heating experience who wants to keep developing.
This level could suit someone who has the right gas qualifications, can handle general plumbing and heating work, communicates well with customers and wants support to grow into stronger fault-finding, controls, air conditioning and renewables work.
Best fit for
- Qualified domestic gas engineer
- Good general plumbing and heating experience
- Tidy and reliable
- Good with customers
- Open to training and progression
- Wants to build confidence in higher-value technical work
A strong starting package with a clear route to grow.
Experienced Engineer
£44,000 to £48,000
For a confident engineer who can manage a varied workload and represent the business well.
This level is for someone who is comfortable with day-to-day plumbing and heating work, boiler servicing, repairs, heating issues, customer conversations and working independently in customers' homes.
Best fit for
- Confident domestic gas engineer
- Strong plumbing and heating background
- Boiler servicing and repair experience
- Good customer communication
- Able to manage jobs cleanly and professionally
- Interested in future training
For engineers who can hit the ground running.
Senior Fault-Finding Engineer
£48,000 to £52,000 plus
For a highly capable engineer with strong diagnostic skill, customer care and leadership potential.
This level is for someone who brings serious value from day one. You may be strong on boiler breakdowns, heating fault-finding, system design, controls, customer explanation, mentoring or renewables and air conditioning experience.
Best fit for
- Strong boiler breakdown and fault-finding ability
- Excellent customer care
- High standards of workmanship
- Confident working independently
- Able to support other engineers as the business grows
- Experience with controls, air conditioning, heat pumps or renewables would be a bonus
A higher package is available for the right person.
Future Progression
Route beyond £52,000
For engineers who grow with the company and take on more responsibility.
As Smart Heat Experts grows, there may be future opportunities to move into senior engineer, lead engineer, survey, design, training or technical support roles.
Progression will be based on skill, reliability, customer feedback, job quality, communication, training completed and the value you bring to the team.
This is a role with room to build a future, not just fill a seat.
The figures above are guide ranges. Final package will depend on qualifications, experience, attitude, capability and the level of responsibility agreed. We are happy to have a proper conversation with the right person.
Package highlights
Why join us?
We are not looking for one fixed type of engineer. We are looking for the right person.
If you are qualified, reliable, good with customers and want to keep improving, there is room to grow here.
If you are already highly experienced in boiler breakdowns, fault-finding, controls or renewables, there is room for a stronger package and more responsibility.
How the working year fits together
Our work follows the seasons. Winter is our busiest and most structured time, when customers rely on us most, so you put in some extra weekday hours through the colder months.
Those extra winter hours are banked and given straight back to you in the summer. There is no standard weekend working, your weekends stay protected, and from July to October you get earned Friday finishes, giving you more of the summer to yourself.
It is a simple, fair trade. You work a little more when we are busiest, and take more time back when things are quieter, with predictable weekday hours and a genuine focus on work life balance.
This role could be right for you if…
This probably is not the right fit if…
We want to be honest from the start. This role needs someone who cares about standards, customers and the way they represent the company.
What we need from you
- Qualified gas installer
- Minimum domestic natural gas qualification
- Gas Safe registered or able to prove current valid ACS qualifications
- Experience in general plumbing and heating
- Full clean UK driving licence
- Good customer communication
- Tidy and respectful in customers' homes
- Able to work safely and follow company processes
- Willingness to keep learning
Note: We will verify qualifications, right to work and driving documents at the correct stage of the recruitment process.
Useful extras, but not deal breakers
- Boiler breakdown and fault-finding experience
- Smart controls experience
- Unvented G3
- LPG
- OFTEC oil
- F-Gas or air conditioning experience
- Heat pump or renewables training
- Powerflushing experience
- Experience using job management software
- Experience mentoring apprentices or less experienced engineers
The future of the trade
Heating is changing. Gas work is still important, but air conditioning, heat pumps and renewables are becoming a bigger part of what customers ask for. We want someone who is open to that future.
You do not need to know everything already. But you do need the right attitude, the right base skills and the willingness to keep learning.
Sound like the kind of team you'd like to join?
Whether you are a qualified engineer ready to grow, or a senior engineer looking for a better long-term opportunity, we would like to hear from you.
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