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🟢 Actively Hiring · Posted 24d ago ⏳ Closes in 67 days UK Corridor 🛡️ UK Work Eligibility 🏢 Company - Public

Newly Qualified Technical Repair Engineer - Somerset

Salary Range
£31,320 - £31,320
£2,610 - £2,610 / mo

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Location Base
Windsor, South East England, England
Tier-1 UK Economic Zone
Est. Take-Home Pay
68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)
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1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard
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Position Overview & Specifications

Somerset!

Join the British Gas family and become a hero in the energy industry!

Newly Qualified Technical Gas Engineer

We are seeking Newly Qualified Gas Engineers to join us in 2023 and help us continue to enhance our brand reputation and serve our customers.

At British Gas, we're united behind a common purpose - to help our customers today and secure energy for tomorrow. Our gas engineers and technicians are trusted to go into people's homes and workplaces every day, helping them with critical needs and problems such as fixing a broken boiler in the middle of winter.

We can offer you a varied and extremely rewarding work environment where you'll have plenty of opportunities to earn a fantastic salary and develop yourself. Plus, you'll be using your skills to help us shape the future "green" in the energy industry.

We're focused on developing talent and investing in our people. You'll be supported with a learning programme that covers the classroom and out in the field with one of our experienced engineers to gain further technical expertise in boiler servicing and repairs.

We offer a starting salary of £31,320 whilst training, rising to £41,650 once fully accredited, plus uncapped additional earning potential. OTE is uncapped, and if you live or start your day within London, you'll receive an additional allowance of £3,828 to £5,328.

As well as a generous salary, we also offer a host of benefits to suit your lifestyle and support your wellbeing. These include private health cover, 33 days paid holiday (including bank holidays), enhanced sick pay, and excellent company discounts. In addition, we offer a generous pension scheme.

To join us, you must hold current ACS accreditation in CCN1, CEN1, WAT1 (CENWAT), CPA1, as well as a full UK driving licence with six points or less. We also require a minimum of one year's experience of servicing, repairing, or installing boilers.

So, why wait? Join us and we'll pay you to learn, enhance your technical skills with ongoing training and support, and help you develop the future capability needed to continue to deliver relevant solutions for our customers.

It's important that we do the right thing, so we'll carry out financial, criminal record, and reference checks, as well as checking you hold the required qualifications for this role prior to you starting with us.

If you have any queries, please contact us at engineerrecruitment@britishgas.co.uk. Come and join us today!

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!


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Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process

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Application & Resume Screening

Submit your tailored CV/Resume directly to the talent acquisition portal.

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Technical & Competency Interviews

Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.

3

Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation

Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.

4

Onboarding & Corporate Integration

Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.

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Employment in the United Kingdom requires legal Right to Work verified under the Home Office Points-Based Immigration System:

🇬🇧 Skilled Worker Visa (Tier 2)

Sponsoring employers must hold an active Home Office A-rated Sponsor License and assign a valid Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS). Role must meet the general minimum salary threshold (£38,700) or occupation going rate.

🏛️ Settlement (ILR) Pathway

Continuous employment under Skilled Worker status establishes eligibility for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) after 5 continuous years, leading to British Citizenship.

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Recruitment Insights

Based on transatlantic hiring benchmarks for Newly Qualified Technical Repair Engineer - Somerset roles across Centrica's corporate sector, successful applicants typically excel across three core dimensions:

1. Domain Competency

Demonstrated portfolio evidence, architecture/system design case studies, or validated professional certifications directly applicable to Energy & Utilities.

2. Behavioral & Leadership

STAR method competency responses highlighting cross-functional leadership, conflict resolution, and delivering measurable enterprise ROI under tight timelines.

3. Compensation Alignment

Total compensation expectation aligned within the benchmarked £31,320 - £31,320 bracket, including retirement vesting and health parity.

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