Commercial Gas Catering Engineer – London / Leeds / Birmingham
Full time in Reactive Engineering ShortlistJob Detail
Job Description
We’re looking for a Commercial Gas Catering Engineer responsible for installing, servicing, and maintaining commercial gas-fired catering equipment across restaurants, hotels, schools, hospitals, and other commercial kitchens. Ensuring all appliances for our customers operate safely, efficiently, and in compliance with current gas regulations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Install, commission, and test commercial gas catering appliances such as ovens, grills, fryers, combi ovens, and water boilers.
- Diagnose faults and carry out repairs on a wide range of gas and electrical catering equipment.
- Perform routine preventative maintenance and safety inspections in line with manufacturer guidelines and industry standards.
- Ensure all work complies with Gas Safe regulations and relevant health and safety legislation.
- Provide clear service reports, documentation, and recommendations for further work.
- Communicate effectively with customers, site managers, and internal teams to ensure smooth service delivery.
- Maintain company tools, equipment, and vehicle to a high standard.
- Participate in an on-call rota for emergency breakdowns where required.
Ideal Candidate:
- Valid Gas Safe registration with relevant commercial catering qualifications (e.g., CCCN1, COMCAT 1–5).
- Proven experience working with commercial catering equipment in a service or installation role.
- Strong understanding of gas safety, ventilation requirements, and combustion analysis.
- Electrical competency (e.g., 17th/18th Edition or equivalent) is desirable.
- Full UK driving licence.
Company Information
Who are we?
Miller’s Vanguard are proud to have been supporting all the UK’s Supermarket chains for over 40 years, in brief, we are the people in the background ensuring that supermarkets keep the Nation fed! Maintaining a wide and varied range of assets from food production equipment through to loading bay lifts.
Our service are as follows:
- Nationwide reactive maintenance
- Hygienic Deep cleaning & Planned maintenance services
- Refurbishment, logistics and installation of equipment
We do all of this with the firm foundations of being owned by the global Ali Group, whose turnover is in excess of £4 billion p.a.
Our people
Despite being a large operation here at Miller’s Vanguard we still firmly believe in running the business like we have done for the last 40 years, by valuing our biggest asset we have YOU…the employee.
Our team of over 500 employees have the advantage of working in state-of-the-art working environments:
- New Technical response centre
- Award Winning research, Innovation, and recycling facility
- Industry leading Mercedes Benz fleet
We believe in providing you with the very best environment and tools to do the job.
Career Development
Training is also a huge part of our culture here at Miller’s Vanguard and our City and Guilds accredited training centre is where we coach and develop our employees regardless of your position or your length of service, we want to make sure that our staff can progress and keep pace with ever changing equipment technologies.
Why Join Us
- Training in our City & Guilds accredited academy
- Job Specific Uniform & tooling for all roles
- Company wide fun days and charity events
- Company Pension
- 32 days holiday allowance including bank holidays.
- Regular staff ‘treats’ for employees and their families