Stop Chasing Invoices.
Start Building Something.
One full-time role. £48,000 base, van + fuel card, uncapped commission on work you find — and a platform that does your timesheet, your paperwork, and pays you every Friday without being asked.
The Real Numbers
Subcontracting Sounds Like More Money. Until You Do The Whole Sum.
The average self-employed engineer in London grosses £65,000. After the van, insurance, dead days, ACS renewals and unpaid admin — most clear far less, with all the risk on their own shoulders. And the big-firm alternative pays £40–45k for the privilege of being managed by league table. Here's our answer to both.
The Floor
Your Family
The Upside
Van & Fuel
Sick & Holiday
Your Tickets
Admin
Getting Paid
Your Package
See What The Package Is Actually Worth.
The base package is fixed. Drag the slider to see what the extra work you find — a worn part, a missing filter, a boiler on borrowed time — adds on top when the customer says yes.
Total Year-One Package Value — Base + Van & Fuel (~£8,000) + Joining Bonus (£4,000)
£60,000year-one package value
Cash Earnings — Base + Commission On Work You Find
£48,000 base + £1,920 commission on the work you find
£49,920+cash earnings
Base band £46–50k DOE; paid on-call adds more.
Commission is 8% of invoiced labour on work you originate (3% on installs). Photo-evidenced, tracked live in the app, paid Friday. No targets — the number above is upside, never a quota.
The Full Package
Everything In Writing. Before You Apply.
Pay
- £48,000 base (£46–50k DOE)
- Uncapped commission on work you find
- £4,000 joining bonus — paid at start, 3 months, 12 months
- Paid every Friday, automatically
The Rest
- Van + fuel card, insured & maintained
- Mon–Fri, 40 hrs. On-call voluntary & properly paid
- 25 days holiday + banks · sick pay from day one
- Pension · £500/yr tool allowance · iPhone + app
- ACS renewals paid · commercial tickets funded
Security Your Family Can Feel.
Subbing pays well until the day it doesn't. This is the version where your family never feels that day.
The Work
The Work Comes To You. Sorted.
Emergency and reactive plumbing & heating across London — the interesting, varied work — plus service and install jobs from our commercial contracts. Routed to you by the platform, not scattered across the M25. You'll run your jobs independently — nobody hovering over your shoulder — but you're never on your own: technical support from the office and our lead engineer is a phone call away.
What We Send You
Emergency Callouts
Burst pipes, leaks, no water — the urgent, varied work
Boiler Repairs & Servicing
Fault finding, repair and service on all major brands
Commercial Reactive
Premium clients, repeat sites — from our commercial contracts
Installs & Planned Works
Boiler swaps and planned jobs booked into your week
How Your Day Runs
Jobs land in your app the night before and through the day
Routed to jobs near you — the system optimises your drive time, not against it
Everything's in the app: history, photos, parts, customer notes
Find extra work? Log it with photos — if the customer says yes, you earn on it
Report submits from site. Timesheet writes itself. Friday, you're paid
A day that makes sense, a system that plans it for you, and ops on the other end of the phone when a job turns out bigger than the ticket said.
The Pleasant Engineer App
Your Entire Working Day — One App.
We built our own app specifically for our engineers. It handles everything — from your first job of the day to getting paid — so you never have to think about admin again.
Live Job Dispatch
Your day, planned for you — jobs land in the app with everything you need before you arrive. No bidding, no chasing, no dead time.
Turn-By-Turn Navigation
Address loaded automatically. Never waste time finding the job.
Digital Job Reports
Photo evidence, customer sign-off, and gas safety records — all in the app. Zero paperwork.
AI Diagnostic Assistant
Error code on a boiler you haven't seen before? Ask our AI. Get an answer in seconds.
Parts Requests
Need a part? Request it in the app. We confirm collection from your nearest trade counter.
Wages + Commission, Every Friday
Watch your commission on the work you find accrue live next to your timesheet.
Good morning
James
Today
6 jobs scheduled
Commission this month
£380
Next pay
Tomorrow
Just Completed
Emergency — No hot water
SE1 · Completed ✓
Next Job
Boiler repair
SW3 · Chelsea
Who You'd Be Working With
Built By An Engineer. Run By One.
I'm Ash — CEO, Gas Safe registered (946687). These days I run the company rather than the jobs — though some of the work that comes through is interesting enough that I still can't help picking the tools back up. I'll be the one technically assessing you before any offer, and the one on the other end of the phone when a job turns out bigger than the ticket said. We built this company to be the place we'd have wanted to work as engineers — pay that lands without asking, an app that kills the paperwork, and nobody managing you by spreadsheet.
— Ash Sunda, CEO & Lead Engineer
We're Selective For A Reason.
Our customers trust us with their homes and businesses. Every engineer we hire represents Pleasant. We only bring on people who take that seriously.
You're Right For Us If:
- Valid Gas Safe registration (CCN1 + CENWAT)
- 5+ years post-qualification experience
- Full UK driving licence
- Based in / within easy reach of London
- You communicate clearly and take pride in the work
- You want somewhere to grow — Engineer → Senior → Supervisor
This Isn't For You If:
- You want day-rate subcontract work — that's our other door: subcontractor.pleasantplumbers.com
- You need a script and a league table to stay motivated
- You're outside London
- Under 5 years post-qualification (but check back — we're building an apprentice pathway)
We'd rather wait for the right engineer than hire the next one. This role is the start of the employed team this company will be built on.
You'll be assessed by our lead engineer before offer — we take gas safety more seriously than anywhere you've worked.
Know Our Next Full-Timer? Earn £500.
Refer a Gas Safe engineer for this role. If we hire them and they pass probation, £500 lands in your account. Yes — you can refer yourself.
£500
per successful referral
No limit.