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About your team: At Centrica Business Solutions, we’re proud to partner with over 7,000 organisations globally – helping them to balance planet, with profit. We build, operate and maintain onsite, large-scale energy assets like Solar PV and Combined Heat and Power – to help businesses to save the planet and save money. We’re also transforming the UK’s energy landscape by partnering with landowners and developers to build a 900MW portfolio of new grid-scale solar farms and battery storage assets.
Combined Heat and Power Engineer – Centrica CBS
Salary: £38,589 + London allowance (£4160 – £ 6240 depending on location) + bonus, on-call payments & excellent benefits
OTE: Over £50,000
Location & Travel: North London / Cambridge / Chelmsford / Luton / Watford
Travel: Our team typically works north of the River Thames, with jobs reaching as far as Cromer and Peterborough. Daily travel can be high, but the rewards are worth it.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a highly capable and supportive team within Centrica CBS as a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Engineer.
What makes this role stand out?
No two days are the same — you’ll work across a wide variety of sites including universities, leisure centres, hotels, hospitals, and even Powergen sites supporting the electrical grid. We offer extensive training in electrics, gas, and generators, including support to gain your Gas Safe qualification. Plus system controls training, dedicated engine manufacturer training and much more. You’ll be part of a friendly, knowledgeable team who support each other and enjoy regular team nights out to keep our bond strong. We’ve recently invested in a new fleet of vans to support your day-to-day travel.
What your day might look like:
- Receive your jobs via email each morning
- Attend services, breakdowns, part replacement or engine rebuilds
- Manage your own diary, including oil store drops, collections, and part pickups from your designated collection box
- Operate, monitor, and maintain utilities including HVAC, WFI, purified water, and process equipment
- Troubleshoot and repair mechanical and electrical systems in line with SOPs and safety policies
- Maintain and secure spare parts inventory and recommend tools/equipment to improve efficiency
- Support engineers in developing methods to improve facilities processes
Key Skills & Experience
- Self-motivated with a strong eye for detail
- Comfortable working independently or as part of a team
- Skilled in customer/client communication
- Ambitious and eager to progress your career
Minimum Requirements:
- Mechanical craft qualification or higher (C&G, NVQ, ONC, HNC)
- Experience in field service roles on reciprocating engines or generators
- Ability to strip and repair engines to component level
- Knowledge of rotating equipment
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Good IT skills
- Strong health & safety awareness
- Excellent housekeeping standards
Desirable Experience:
- Working on CHP plants or generators
- Vehicle maintenance
- Experience with engines such as MTU, CAT, Perkins, MAN, Mercedes, MWM
This is a brilliant chance to grow your skills, work on diverse projects, and be part of a team that truly values collaboration and development.
Why should you apply?
We’re not a perfect place – but we’re a people place. Our priority is supporting all of the different realities our people face. Life is about so much more than work. We get it. That’s why we’ve designed our total rewards to give you the flexibility to choose what you need, when you need it, making sure that you and your family are supported not only financially, but physically and emotionally too.
We’re a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. When it comes to energy, no one does it like us. We make it, store it, move it, sell it and mend it. We’re made up of 12 different businesses, but united by our purpose as Centrica. We’re energisers. Our journey to a greener, fairer future is powered by individuals like you. Through innovative green products, intelligent energy solutions and developing smarter ways to use and save energy, we’re not just part of the energy transition, we’re leading it. Our commitment goes beyond sustainability. Together we’re bringing our collective energies to create positive change in our local communities. If you immerse yourself in our fight to change tomorrow, you might just find your why. We’re looking for people to add to our culture – not fit in with it. We’re building a community where you can be unapologetically you, where differences are celebrated, and where everyone can belong. Real inclusivity also means supporting the different realities our people face. That’s why we have the UK’s best Carers Policy and are continually building our approach to flexibility and wellbeing. Of course, we love having fun too. We’re a people place after all.
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