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Who Are We
The Building Engineering Services Association (formerly known as the HVCA) is the UK's leading trade organisation for building engineering services contractors – representing the interests of firms active in the design, installation, commissioning, maintenance, control and management of engineering systems and services in buildings.




Our Values

Community
Working together makes us stronger and smarter. We make a difference and support all in the industry to succeed.

Passion
We take pride in our achievements because we are enthusiastic about what we do.

Proactivity
We act with integrity, we go the extra mile delivering solutions for the future of our industry.
Connecting the right people to the right talent
Looking for a new and exciting role? You’ve come to the right place.
Current Job Openings
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Schemes Administrator Part-Time (21 hours)
Certification · Old Mansion House · Hybrid Remote
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Schemes Administrator (Full-Time)
Certification · Old Mansion House · Hybrid Remote
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Mechanical Engineer
Technical · Rotherwick House · Hybrid Remote
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Support Analyst
SFG20 · Old Mansion House · Fully Remote
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Certification Assessor
Certification · Fully Remote
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HVACR Auditor Sub-Contract
Certification · Old Mansion House · Fully Remote
Be a part of our diverse team who brings knowledge, passion and talent!
Team Members
Locations
What’s it like to work here?
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‘I’ve been with BESA for coming up 11 years now and I’ve made some great friends.They are very supportive and have helped me through an accountancy qualification, having a family, changing my hours to fit in with being a parent, as well as a career change within the association into project management and doing my Prince2 foundation course.’
Charlie Harrison
Project Coordinator
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I have been with BESA for just over a year now, working closely with the Membership Department as part of the Customer Success Team. I enjoy every moment of working with BESA and communicating with all the different departments daily; everyone is very welcoming, friendly, and helpful. The group truly values their employees and allows us to enjoy a work life balance with the options of working from home and the summer hours scheme. The most rewarding part about my role is keeping our members happy and this drives motivation to ensure we are being the best we can be.
Danielle Norfolk
Customer Success Executive
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Speaking from my experience of working in the Penrith office of BESA, I can remember right from the beginning that everyone was very welcoming and helpful. I really appreciated the introduction of hybrid working which helps towards a better work/life balance and I also think the summer working hours is a really great policy to allow us to make the most of the summer months! I’ve been supported through training which has allowed me to progress to my current position and feel that I am a valued member of my team.
Mia Lympany
Assistant Management Accountant
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I have worked for The BESA Group for 21 years, taking two periods of maternity leave and working both part-time when my children were young and full-time at present. BESA have been very supportive with my work-life balance allowing me to change my hours to help with my childcare and then to increase them when I was able to. The people who I work with are fantastic, fun loving and hard-working. I have enhanced my career with several course’s from Customer Service, First Aid and ILM – Leadership and Management to Level 2 AAT Accounting. I work with a team of 14 who are great at sharing their expertise, there is always someone to ask when I have a problem in excel, every day is a school day! I started my career with BESA working in the Finance department and spent 16 years working on the accounts for the group companies before moving to a senior position with SKILLcard in 2017. The company benefits are amazing, I get extra holidays for my length of service and we close at Christmas. I am a member of Bupa and the employment sick pay
Dawn Whittam
SKILLcard Operations Team Member
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I have worked for BESA Group for over 7 years now and have never felt more valued as an employee. I have the trust and respect to work independently with great flexibility as long as the hours are done and the work is completed. I also work well and with a great team in my own department. The wider culture within the group means many of its people are both professionally approachable and personally friendly and fun to be around.
Michelle Brumwell
Management Accountant
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I’ve been working for BESA as an SFG20 Technical Author since early December last year. My overall experience has been that this is a company that fully realises that its staff are the company and the benefits package and private healthcare offered reflects this. The CEO has a one to one chat with all new starters, there is a genuine desire within the staff that I have met to do a good job and a pride in the organisation as a whole. I had heard of SFG20 before I started working for BESA but I didn’t fully appreciate the care and scrutiny that is applied to every schedule that we write. SFG20 is held in high regard in the outside industry, indeed I have heard the phrase “When a company Tenders to win a maintenance contract they generally quote to maintain to the standards as laid out in SFG20”. I feel privileged to now be a part of this organisation and am proud that a Maintenance engineer will be performing a Task somewhere in a building and be assisted by our schedules. I would happily recommend BESA as a good company to work for.
Richard Crisp
Technical Author
Employee Benefits
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Hybrid Working
Option of 3 days in the office and 2 days at home -
Summer Hours
Option of compressed hours over the Summer to finish early on a Friday!
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Additional Leave Purchase Scheme
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Enhanced Holiday Entitlement
26 days & 8 Bank Holidays -
Refer a Friend Scheme
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Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay
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BUPA Health Insurance
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Cycle to Work Scheme
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Employee Assistance Program
Financial, Relationship and Mental Health Assistance -
Mental Health Awareness Initiatives
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Full Company Sick Pay
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Electric Dreams
We have partnered with Octopus Electric Vehicles to provide an additional employee benefit scheme via salary sacrifice.
About BESA
For more than 100 years, BESA (The Building Engineering Services Association) has been driving excellence so everyone can expect and experience better buildings, and better buildings support better lives.
We were formerly known as the Heating and Ventilating Contractors’ Association (HVCA).
We provide standards to measure up to. We do this so building engineers and operators know what best looks like and what it takes to achieve, helping them make the right choices. As a trade body and membership organisation, we’re here to help our members and their customers deliver or specify better building engineering services and a better built environment.
We support members of all shapes and sizes across the UK, from SMEs to global organisations across design, installation, commissioning, maintenance, control and management of engineering systems and services in buildings. BESA provides a wide range of support services from training courses and advice to sharing best practice and opportunities to network and secure new business.
The bedrock of a better built environment is best practice. At BESA we are on a quest to instil higher technical excellence, robust skills and clear accreditations across the industry. Our mission is to help our members demonstrate competence and evidence compliance to essential standards.
Why not check out our website?
www.thebesa.com
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