Lead Gas Engineer Chelmsford, England
Job description
Lead Gas Engineer
Location: Braintree & Surrounding - Witham, Danbury Boreham, Maldon - Essex
Working Hours: 42 hours per week across varied shifts
Base salary: £28,615 to £31,794 depending on experience.
Realistic potential earnings up to £46,600, with our colleagues typically averaging £36,100 whilst training, up to £46,600 once qualified depending on overtime, call-out requirements and performance bonuses. It’s even possible to earn more!
NOTE: This is a fantastic opportunity for qualified gas engineers who want to maximise their earning potential. Your potential earnings will depend on individual overtime and call-out requirements, as well as performance bonuses. In addition, we will be increasing our salaries in July 2023 to keep pace with inflation, guaranteeing a minimum 7.5% rise. If you’re motivated by high earning potential and want to join a dynamic business, we encourage you to apply!
About Us
At Cadent we’re excited to be part of the future of UK energy! We’ve got a clear roadmap that will drive our performance to the forefront of our industry and support the UK government in achieving its net zero targets by 2050.
We’re making a difference through innovation and new ways of working. Together we’re shaping a cleaner, greener future for our 11 million customers whom we put at the heart of everything we do.
The Important Bit
When you join us here at Cadent, and to make sure we train you to be at your best, we ask you to carry out a period of probation. Once we have upskilled you in all things Gas Emergency Service Operations, you will progress to a competent Lead Gas engineer.
You will be entitled to an hourly rate of pay for any hours worked above your contracted hours, which throughout our peak times, we may require. As we operate 365 days a year, you will need to undertake overnight standbys which will vary in amount depending on the area you work in. This standby will offer you an additional set payment of £77 per weeknight and £127 per weekend. On top of all of that, we want to recognise you for being at your best. Once you have passed you probation, you will also receive a monthly incentive payment based on team performance. This is our way of thanking you for your Customer Service.
For over 200 years we’ve been quietly, conscientiously and confidently keeping the nation safe and warm. Our gas network connects and keeps the energy flowing to over 12 million homes and business across the UK. Reliable, inventive and trusted by our customers, we aim to always deliver, constantly delight and never knowingly disappoint.
We aim to do the same for you too. Hard work, ambition and talent are recognised and rewarded here. Supporting each other to succeed, we’re excited by future possibilities and driven by the opportunity to grow, innovate and create better, safer tomorrows, today. With us you’ll experience a career with real purpose and realistic progression that will make you feel genuinely proud about what you do.
Day to Day
As a Gas Engineer in our Emergency Response Team, you’ll mainly work on your own and be the first one on the scene at customers’ homes, responding to reported gas escapes or carbon monoxide activated alarms. Working on both contracted and emergency jobs, you’ll deal directly with customers and the emergency services, often working shifts and unsociable hours. Confident and self-sufficient, you’ll also carry out scheduled installation, replacement and maintenance of gas meters for both domestic and commercial properties.
You’ll monitor gas readings on programmed escapes and perform medium rise, high rise and gas safety regulation surveys. In addition, you’ll fit cooker safety valves, attend meter faults, purge and relights and much more.
No two days will be the same as you meet all kinds of people and work in a variety of different locations. You’ll experience a great sense of pride, knowing that by attending a CO escape or meter fault you’re helping to save lives. Even fitting a cooker locking valve gives you the satisfaction of knowing that a vulnerable person can safely stay in their own home. And, the feeling you get from solving a problem and going above and beyond to help a customer is truly rewarding.
What’s In It For You
Here at Cadent, we are committed to supporting our employees to get the best out of themselves. For this role in particular we can offer:
Funding and support towards completing qualifications
Ample opportunity for progression within the business
Mentoring and guidance opportunities
Benefits
We offer a host of benefits to suit your lifestyle and support your well-being. These include:
Annual bonus
Pension Scheme double matched up to a total of 18% of salary (i.e., employee contributions of up to 6%, double matched by a Cadent contribution of up to 12%)
25 days holiday, plus statutory days, and an option to buy more
Fantastic career development prospects with funded learning options, including support with exams, and internal and external learning and development
Strong focus on supporting you as an individual including:
flexible working
strong commitments to ED&I
generous family provision policies
Flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, insurance, and healthcare packages, plus much more
My Offers membership card – offering discounts and savings from hundreds of retailers
2 paid volunteering days per year
Free gym access at the Ansty office, as well as a ‘Gympass’ scheme providing free or heavily subsidised local gym memberships
We want our employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance and are happy to discuss flexible working options with you if the role can accommodate it. Let us know about your flexibility requirements, whether that be reduced hours, remote working, flexible start/finish times, or compressed hours, and we will be more than happy to explore what’s possible for the role.
Diversity and Inclusion
Don’t meet every single requirement listed?
Understanding, learning, and celebrating what makes us different, as well as what we have in common, is good for us as individuals and enables us to work better together as one team. Cadent is committed to being an equitable and diverse employer that fosters an inclusive culture for all our employees, therefore, all our employment decisions are assessed based on qualifications, merit, and business need. So, if you’re excited about this opportunity but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification mentioned, we would still love for you to submit your application – You may just be the right person for this role or other opportunities at Cadent.
As a recognised Disability Confident Employer, we are proud to champion inclusion in the workplace and ensure to provide an environment that is accessible to all and supports individuals throughout their journey with Cadent. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments during the application process.
We place great importance on equity, diversity and inclusion, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our employee communities Women in Cadent, Pride at Work (LGBTQ+), Embrace (ethnicity and religion), Thrive! (disability) and the Cadent Military Community can’t wait to welcome you!
Circle Back Initiative
As an active and proud member of The Circle Back Initiative, we aim to ensure that all candidates receive a response to their application, regardless of the outcome.
We will be receiving applications until the specified date above, though Cadent retains the right to close this vacancy early without prior notification, so it is advisable to complete your application at your earliest convenience.
Be part of something big. Help shape the future of gas for generations to come.
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