Engineer

The Vacancy

🌱 ASHP Engineer – Renewables - Liberty

📍 Maidstone, Dartford, Canterbury & Folkstone
🚗 Company Vehicle Provided

🔧 Make a Real Difference in Energy Transition

Join our growing Energy Transition team and help improve lives by delivering high‑quality renewable installations in customer homes. As an ASHP Engineer, you’ll install air source heat pumps, cylinders, carry out general plumbing tasks, and ensure all certification and evidence is submitted on time.

This is your opportunity to be part of a team creating greener, safer, smarter homes across the UK. 🌍💚

💛 What You’ll Be Doing

👥 People Focused

You’ll help create a great customer and colleague experience by:

1. Encouraging strong communication between clients, office teams and engineers
2. Supporting a positive team culture and leading by example
3. Keeping customers informed, reassured, and updated throughout your works

💡 Simply Innovative

You’ll bring smart thinking to your day by:

4. Planning and requesting materials in advance
5. Using measuring equipment accurately
6. Working from diagrams, sketches, written and verbal instructions

🎓 What You’ll Bring

📘 Qualifications (Essential unless stated)

7. NVQ L2/L3 Domestic Plumbing or City & Guilds equivalent
8. Level 3 Award: Installation & Maintenance of Heat Pump Systems (C&G, BPEC or LCL)
9. Water Regulations
10. G3 Unvented Cylinders
11. Desirable: Solar RFQ L3, F‑Gas
12. Clean driving licence
13. Electrical qualifications (17th/18th Edition, control re‑wiring) desirable

🔍 Experience & Knowledge

14. Experience within local authority/social housing environments
15. Knowledge of domestic installations and appliances
16. Familiarity with PAS 2030 standards
17. Technical competence in fault‑finding and rectification
18. Good understanding of heating systems and controls (BMS desirable)
19. Understanding of H&S and best practice
20. Ability to work with domestic & commercial pipework, including press systems

🤝 Our Commitment to You

We’re an inclusive employer and will make reasonable adjustments to support employees with disabilities. We’re committed to ensuring you feel safe, respected, and supported at work.

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.

Awards

BEST PROJECT

Inside Housing Development Awards

WINNER

2022 Construction News Awards Winner

GOLD AWARD

Investors in People 2022

GOLD AWARD

Considerate Constructors Schemes (CCS) National Site Awards

TOP 50 EMPLOYERS

2022 Top 50 Employers for Women

WINNER

2022 Working Families Best Practice Awards