Experienced Heating Engineer Wanted
Heating experience essential | Plumbing work included | Renewables pathway available
Smart Heat Experts is recruiting a qualified, experienced Heating Engineer to join our growing local team across Haywards Heath, Mid Sussex and surrounding areas.
This is not a trainee or improver heating role.
The £40,000 to £52,000+ package reflects the level we need: someone who already understands domestic heating, can work confidently in customers' homes and can independently handle boiler servicing, repairs, heating faults and general plumbing work.
We can support the right engineer with progression into air conditioning, heat pumps, advanced controls and renewables, but strong domestic heating experience is required from day one.
- £40,000 to £52,000+ package, matched to experience and capability
- Company van and fuel card
- Local work across Haywards Heath and Mid Sussex
- No standard weekend working
- Progression into air conditioning, heat pumps and renewables
Gas Safe registered
Work done safely and to standard
Accredited and trusted
A company that takes qualifications seriously
You will be joining a properly accredited local business, working with the manufacturers and standards bodies that customers know and trust.
The minimum standard for this role
To be considered, you must already have:
Air-conditioning, heat-pump and renewables experience is an advantage, but it is not essential.
Heating experience is essential.
This is not a trainee or improver heating role
What the role looks like day to day
This is a heating-led position with plumbing variety. Most work is carried out in customers' homes across Haywards Heath, Mid Sussex and surrounding areas.
Typical work includes:
As the business grows, there will be opportunities to develop further into air conditioning, heat pumps, controls and renewable heating.
The core position remains heating-led.
Local work across Haywards Heath and Mid Sussex, in customers' homes every day.
Package matched to your experience and capability
The £40,000 to £52,000+ figure is a total package, not a guaranteed basic salary.
We publish clear guide package levels so you can see where your experience is likely to fit. Every package is agreed after a proper conversation about your qualifications, proven experience and independent capability.
Qualified Heating Engineer
£40,000 to £44,000
For a qualified domestic gas engineer with proven plumbing and heating experience who can already work independently on routine customer jobs.
You must be confident carrying out boiler servicing, common boiler repairs, domestic heating fault-finding, controls checks, central-heating repairs and general plumbing without needing to be taught the fundamentals.
Best fit for
- Qualified domestic gas engineer
- Proven plumbing and heating experience
- Services and repairs boilers independently
- Confident with domestic heating fault-finding
- Handles controls checks and central-heating repairs
- Ready to develop advanced diagnostics and renewables
Development here focuses on advanced diagnostics, controls and renewables, not basic heating competence.
Experienced Heating Engineer
£44,000 to £48,000
For an experienced engineer with strong servicing, repair and heating-system knowledge who can manage a varied workload independently.
You should be confident diagnosing boiler and heating faults, communicating findings and costs to customers, completing general plumbing work and representing Smart Heat Experts professionally.
Best fit for
- Strong servicing and repair experience
- Confident diagnosing boiler and heating faults
- Manages a varied workload independently
- Communicates findings and costs clearly
- Completes general plumbing work
- Represents the company professionally
For engineers who can manage a full day of varied heating work on their own.
Senior Heating & Fault-Finding Engineer
£48,000 to £52,000+
For a highly capable engineer with advanced diagnostic skills, excellent customer care and the potential to support other engineers as the business grows.
This level should reflect strong evidence in boiler breakdowns, system fault-finding, controls, electrical testing, heating-system behaviour and technically complex customer work.
Best fit for
- Advanced diagnostic skills
- Strong on boiler breakdowns and system fault-finding
- Controls, electrical testing and heating-system behaviour
- Handles technically complex customer work
- Excellent customer care
- Potential to support other engineers as the business grows
Air-conditioning, heat-pump, mentoring or renewable-heating experience is an advantage, but it must not replace core heating competence.
Future Progression
Route beyond £52,000
For engineers who develop 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 is based on proven skill, reliability, customer feedback, job quality, communication, training completed and the value you bring to the team.
A role with room to build a future, not just fill a seat.
The ranges above are guide package opportunities. The final package will be agreed following a review of qualifications, proven experience, independent technical capability, customer care and the responsibilities of the role.
Package highlights
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.
You will have a company van and a fuel card for your work, and you will need a reliable way to reach the Haywards Heath office each working day.
This role could be right for you if:
This role is probably not right for you if:
We want to be honest from the start. This role needs a confident, experienced heating engineer who cares about standards, customers and the way they represent the company.
An advantage, but not essential
Heating experience is essential. The skills below are genuinely useful and can support your package and progression, but they will not replace core heating competence.
- Air conditioning or F-Gas experience
- Heat pump or renewables training
- Smart controls experience
- Unvented G3
- LPG
- OFTEC oil
- Powerflushing experience
- Experience using job management software
- Experience mentoring less experienced engineers
Note: We will verify qualifications, right to work and driving documents at the correct stage of the recruitment process.
The future of the trade
Heating is changing. Gas work remains central to what we do, and air conditioning, heat pumps and renewables are becoming a bigger part of what customers ask for. We want an experienced engineer who is ready to develop into that future.
You already bring strong domestic heating experience. From there, we can support you with manufacturer training, advanced diagnostics and progression into new technologies.
The recruitment process
A clear, private process built around a proper conversation.
- 1Private online application
- 2Human review of qualifications and heating experience
- 3Confidential telephone conversation
- 4Technical and practical assessment where appropriate
- 5Qualification, driving and right-to-work verification
- 6Offer and agreed package
Ready to apply for the experienced heating engineer role?
If you are a qualified, experienced heating engineer who takes pride in safe, clean and professional work, we would like to hear from you.
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