Gas Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 20, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 9, 2026. Babcock International scores A on the Alion truth index.
Job Title: Gas Engineer
Location: Bicester, Oxfordshire
Compensation: £43,300 - £46,450 Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF76423
Keep vital infrastructure running. Help create a safe and secure world.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Gas Engineer at Bicester, near Oxfordshire.
The role
As a Gas Engineer, you'll play a vital role in maintaining and improving the infrastructure that supports critical defence operations. Working across Babcock's Bicester estate, you'll carry out planned and reactive maintenance on commercial gas, heating, plumbing and water systems, helping to ensure facilities remain safe, compliant and operational.
Day-to-day you'll be required to:
- Carry out planned and reactive maintenance across commercial gas, heating, plumbing and water systems.
- Service, maintain and fault-finding commercial boilers and gas-fired heating equipment.
- Respond to maintenance issues including leaks, blocked toilets and faulty pipework.
- Complete planned preventative maintenance activities on water systems, including inspections and compliance checks.
- Diagnose faults, repairing equipment and maintaining accurate maintenance records while working safely and efficiently.
The role is based onsite at Bicester, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 40 hours per week. Participation in an on-call rota is required, with a call-out allowance and company van provided.
Essential experience of the Gas Engineer:
- Proven experience working as a Commercial Gas Engineer, Heating Engineer or similar in a commercial environment.
- Experience servicing, maintaining and fault-finding gas boilers and heating systems.
- Practical knowledge of plumbing, pipework and water systems.
- Experience delivering planned and reactive maintenance within commercial, industrial or domestic environments.
- Understanding of gas safety regulations, water hygiene requirements and safe working practices.
Qualifications for the Gas Engineer:
- Gas qualification / Gas Safe competency, ideally commercial.
- City and Guilds or equivalent qualification in Gas, Heating, Plumbing or Mechanical Engineering.
- Full UK manual driving licence.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
Babcock
We’re Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts - not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [email protected] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 23/10/2026