Plumbing Engineer

Reactive Plumbing Engineer
Metro Rod York & Hull
Covering the York area
40 hours per week
Salary £37,440- £46,800 DOE overtime & commission

Metro Rod work with the likes of Equans, Amey, Aldi, Mitie, Greggs, McDonalds, Wetherspoons and many more in the FM, Social Housing, Property Management, Retail, Industrial and Leisure sectors. Despite having been around for over 40 years, we are a fast-growing and dynamic business and part of an ever-expanding group Franchise Brands.

Founded in 1983, Metro Rod and its sister company Metro Plumb are leading providers of drain clearance and maintenance services delivered on a largely reactive basis. The services are provided by over 60 franchisees with geographical coverage across the UK. We’ve been clearing and unblocking drains for more than thirty years and we’re proud of our reputation for quality service and customer satisfaction. Major companies and leading high street names trust us to deal with all their regular drain maintenance and we’ll bring the same high standards of service to tackle your drain blockage.

Within the Waste & Water Services Division of Franchise Brands, is also Willow Pumps and Filta. Two expanding businesses that focus on sewage pumps and commercial kitchen solutions. Together, the brands provide a complete one-stop shop for keeping water and waste flowing.

This is a full-time vacancy and will involve you in providing a range of emergency and contracted services to both commercial and domestic customers. The successful candidate will be provided with a company van and fuel card.

What’s involved?

We are looking for a confident plumber who can carry out all aspects of plumbing work, including but not limited to, installation and maintenance of toilets, taps, ball valves, siphons, flexible hoses, pipework, radiator valves, cylinders, heating systems etc across a range of domestic and commercial customers. You will attend primarily attend emergency plumbing jobs relating to installations/leaks/issues.

Our customer experience rating is important to us as it demonstrates we care. So, if you want to join a growing local business, the satisfaction of customers and the quality of your work is important to you then we would love to hear from you.

What are we looking for?

• Proven experience as a Plumbing/ Plumbing & Heating Engineer for both domestic and commercial customers OR NVQ Level 2
• Ideally Gas and pump experience (preferred, but not essential)
• Renewable energy experience an advantage (preferred, but not essential)
• Unvented certification (again, preferred, but not essential)
• DBS checked (or willingness for this to be carried out)
• Full UK driving license
• Flexibility to work overtime

What will you get?

• Personal development plan with timelines to achieve good OTE and growth
• Auto enrolment into pension scheme
• Company van and fuel card
• Branded uniform
• Company mobile
• Personal development and genuine career opportunity
• Induction and training
• On-call rota in addition to salary
• Optional overtime
• Accommodating hours to support personal life

We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.