Service & Maintenance Engineer - Renewable

Service & Maintenance Engineer

Location: Thurso / Caithness area
Salary: £40,000-£48,000 depending on experience
Hours: Monday to Thursday 7:00am-5:00pm, half day Friday
Contract: Permanent

We are recruiting for an experienced Service & Maintenance Engineer to join a growing renewables and heating business covering the Thurso and wider Caithness area.

This is a field-based role focused on diagnosing faults, carrying out maintenance, servicing and repairs across domestic heating and renewable energy systems.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in heating, service engineering or renewables and will be confident working independently in customers' homes.

As Service & Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Carrying out planned and reactive servicing


• Fault finding and diagnosing heating system issues


• Repairing and maintaining heat pump systems


• Supporting air source and ground source heat pump installations


• Working across oil and gas heating systems where required


• Attending customer properties across the local area


• Identifying faults quickly and completing first-time fixes where possible


• Carrying out routine inspections and preventative maintenance


• Completing service reports and job documentation


• Ordering or identifying required parts


• Ensuring work is completed safely and to required standards


• Providing a professional service to domestic customers


• Working independently while keeping the wider team updated

We are looking for someone with strong practical engineering ability and good fault-finding skills.

Ideally, you will have experience across some of the following:

• Heat pumps


• Air source heat pumps


• Ground source heat pumps


• Domestic heating


• Oil heating systems


• Gas heating systems


• HVAC


• Mechanical servicing


• Electrical fault finding


• Pumps, valves and controls


• Renewable heating systems

You do not necessarily need experience across every area.

The key requirement is strong diagnostic ability and confidence maintaining heating or mechanical systems.

Ideally, candidates will have:

• 5+ years' experience within heating, service engineering, HVAC, renewables or a related field


• Strong fault-finding and diagnostic experience


• Experience working independently


• Good customer-facing skills


• Ability to manage service calls efficiently


• Experience working within domestic environments


• Full UK driving licence

Candidates should ideally live within approximately one hour of Thurso, due to the field-based nature of the role.

• £40,000-£48,000 depending on experience


• Permanent position


• Local territory


• Monday to Thursday 7:00am-5:00pm


• Half day Friday


• Long-term opportunity within a growing renewables business

The process is expected to be straightforward, with a direct interview with the Managing Director.

If you have a strong background in heating, maintenance, HVAC or renewable energy systems and are looking for a long-term role in the Caithness area, we would be keen to hear from you.