Chief Refrigeration Engineer

Miller’s Recruitment; Ovingdean; On-site; GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading refrigeration service provider is seeking a Chief Refrigeration Engineer for their Bury site. Responsibilities include supporting field service teams, managing refrigeration issues, and ensuring compliance with F-Gas regulations. Ideal candidates have at least 5 years of experience, relevant qualifications, and possess strong communication skills. The role offers full-time employment with competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

Job Specific Uniform & tooling

Company Pension

Incremental holiday allowance

Company Vehicle

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in refrigeration.
• Fully qualified as a Refrigeration Engineer.
• Must have a valid UK driving Licence.

Responsibilities

• Assist in resolving refrigeration related problems.
• Provide support to refrigeration engineers.
• Document all refrigeration movements correctly.
• Ensure F-Gas qualifications are up to date.

Skills

Refrigeration experience

Good communication skills

Equipment diagnostic skills

Ability to work at heights

Education

Refrigeration Handling C&G 2079 qualification

NVQ / C&G Level 2 in Refrigeration

Tools

Access equipment

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Chief Refrigeration Engineer

Location: Bury

Department: Service

Reports To: Technical Manager

Job Type: Full Time

Salary: £60K per annum

Job Summary:

We’re currently recruiting for a Chief Refrigeration Engineer to be based at our Bury site. As the primary lead in all thing’s refrigeration, your role will be to support the Field Service Teams and other sectors of the business by bringing all your technical know-how and team working skills to ensure all work is completed efficiently and within current guidelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist the business in resolving/managing refrigeration related problems throughout our customer base and visit site where required to see through to completion.
• Provide a point of contact for refrigeration engineers relating to refrigeration matters.
• Provide support to the refrigeration engineers in carrying out their refrigeration related tasks as directed by the business or on request from the engineer.
• Assist in the development of technical support data for refrigeration equipment and van stock parts in support of the refrigeration engineers.
• Ensure all refrigeration movements are documented correctly and are up to date.
• Liaise with department heads in planning of refrigeration services
• Ensure all F-Gas qualifications are kept up to date and renewal course planned in with good time.
• Audit all Refrigeration engineers to ensure they are up to standard.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in refrigeration.
• This role requires occasional flexibility in working hours, including travel across the UK to support complex service issues when needed.
• You must be a fully qualified Refrigeration Engineer with Refrigeration Handling C&G 2079 qualification (Fgas Qualification)
• You should hold a NVQ / C&G Level 2 in Refrigeration or equivalent.
• Walk in Fridge/Freezer experience
• You must have a full, valid UK driving Licence.
• Good communication skills.
• Equipment diagnostic and equipment repair skills.
• Ability to work at heights and be competent in the use of access equipment.

Company Information

Who are we?

Miller’s Vanguard are proud to have been supporting all the UK’s Supermarket chains for over 40 years, in brief, we are the people in the background ensuring that supermarkets keep the Nation fed! Maintaining a wide and varied range of assets from food production equipment through to loading bay lifts.

Our service are as follows:

• Nationwide reactive maintenance
• Hygienic Deep cleaning & Planned maintenance services
• Refurbishment, logistics and installation of equipment

We do all of this with the firm foundations of being owned by the global Ali Group, whose turnover is in excess of £4 billion p.a.

Our people

Despite being a large operation here at Miller’s Vanguard we still firmly believe in running the business like we have done for the last 40 years, by valuing our biggest asset we have YOU…the employee.

Our team of over 500 employees have the advantage of working in state-of-the-art working environments:

• New (2021) Technical response centre
• Award Winning research, Innovation, and recycling facility
• Industry leading Mercedes Benz fleet

We believe in providing you with the very best environment and tools to do the job.

Career Development

Training is also a huge part of our culture here at Miller’s Vanguard and our City and Guilds accredited training centre is where we coach and develop our employees regardless of your position or your length of service, we want to make sure that our staff can progress and keep pace with ever changing equipment technologies.

Why Join Us

• Training in our City & Guilds accredited academy
• Job Specific Uniform & tooling for all roles
• Company wide fun days and charity events
• Company Pension
• Incremental holiday allowance (up to 32 days per year)
• Regular staff ‘treats’ for employees and their families
• Company Vehicle