Job Title: Gas Engineer
Location: Blackwater, Hampshire
Compensation: From £41,960 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70918
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 the Royal School of Military Engineering (RSME) Minley, near Blackwater, Hampshire.
The role
As a Gas Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will play a key role in maintaining the essential mechanical and heating systems that keep the RSME Minley estate running safely, efficiently and reliably. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact in defence, aerospace and engineering by ensuring critical facilities remain operational for those who rely on them every day.
Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:
- Carry out planned, reactive and remedial maintenance across mechanical systems and equipment
- Conduct site checks, weekly inspections and diagnose faults to deliver effective repairs
- Repair and service commercial boilers and support mechanical system upgrades or replacements
- Manage mechanical system supplies, ensuring correct inventory levels
- Complete occasional plumbing tasks as required
Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time.
The role is based onsite at RSME Minley, and the set working times are Monday to Thursday 8am to 4.30pm and Friday 8am to 4pm, totalling 40 hours per week.
Essential experience of the Gas Engineer:
- Proven commercial gas engineering experience
- Strong mechanical maintenance and repair background
- Experience working with commercial boilers and associated systems
- Confidence carrying out fault diagnosis
- Comfortable working independently on a large site
Qualifications for the Gas Engineer:
- CCN1 or COCN1 – Core Commercial Natural Gas Safety
- 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 26,000 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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 24/02/2026
