Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Engineer

Pitkin & Ruddock Ltd; Norwich; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the East Anglia region, Pitkin & Ruddock Ltd, is looking for an Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Engineer. The role involves extensive travel in Norfolk and Suffolk, focusing on the installation, servicing, and maintenance of air conditioning systems. Ideal candidates should have relevant experience and qualifications, with a commitment to excellent customer service and team support.

Benefits

Company van

Specialist tools, uniform, and PPE

Continuous training and development

Annual Occupational Health checks

Winter flu vaccination programme

Generous overtime rates

Increased annual leave entitlement for length of service

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years experience in Air-Conditioning.
• Flexible approach to working hours.
• Full clean UK Driving Licence.

Responsibilities

• Install, service, and maintain air conditioning and refrigeration systems.
• Participate in on-call system for 24-hour breakdown cover.
• Encourage and assist trainees and junior engineers.

Skills

Air-Conditioning

Communication

Customer Service

Health & Safety

Education

City & Guilds in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning

City & Guilds 2079 Refrigerant Handling Certificate

Job description

About the position

As a Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Engineer you will be responsible for travelling extensively around Suffolk and Norfolk and occasionally nationally, visiting client sites to install, service and maintain air conditioning and refrigeration equipment.

About Pitkin & Ruddock

Pitkin & Ruddock provide complete temperature control solutions, services and maintenance to all our customers in the East Anglia region and across the UK. Our company was established in 1954 and pride ourselves in helping businesses big and small.

Everything we do at Pitkin & Ruddock Ltd starts with people; our success is built on long term working relationships with our customers, employees and suppliers. We are a large, local, family company that pride ourselves in delivering excellence through service.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Installation, Service and Maintenance of Air Conditioning and Refrigeration systems.
• Participate in On-Call system to provide our customers with 24-hour breakdown cover.
• Encourage and assist in the development of trainees and junior engineers.
• Complete company documentation utilising Joblogic.
• Provide feedback to company management.
• Provide a high standard of work.

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and attributes:

• Minimum of 2 years experience working on Air-Conditioning
• City & Guilds or equivalent in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning.
• City & Guilds 2079 Refrigerant Handling Certificate.
• Have a flexible approach to working hours.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Great customer service skills.
• A good knowledge of Health & Safety.
• Able to work and support team as well as independently.
• Full clean UK Driving Licence.
• Positive can do attitude.

This is a full-time position that offers a competitive package.

We consider our employees to be part of our family so when you join Pitkin & Ruddock, you ll be joining a company that wants you to grow with us and stay with us. We actively provide training and development for employees to reach their full potential, encouraging them to excel in their trade. We truly believe as a family run business, no-one is ever just a number, your efforts are recognised and rewarded.

We have a fair approach to basic wages, have generous overtime rates and offer increased annual leave entitlement for length of service. Engineer s also benefit from a Company van and all specialist tools, uniform and PPE.

We also provide continuous training and development oportunities plus annual Occupational Heath checks and offer a winter flu vaccination programme.