Chiller Service Engineer

JAM Recruitment Ltd; Park Central; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company van (including personal use)

On-call allowance

Overtime rates

Training & certification support

Year-round work

Job summary

JAM Recruitment Ltd is sourcing a Chiller Service Engineer for a Birmingham-based role covering the Midlands. The position is full-time and involves field service across industrial and commercial sites with a salary of £42,000–£50,000 per year, dependent on experience.

The role includes 24/7 breakdown cover awareness, a driving licence, and a track record with industrial chillers. You’ll join a small team delivering reliable cooling across plants, breweries, data centres and more.

Qualifications

• F-Gas Category 1 is required.
• A full UK driving licence is required.
• Track record on chillers or industrial refrigeration plant is essential.
• Diagnostic ability is highly valued and experience with process cooling is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Fault diagnosis and repair on process and comfort cooling systems, from small process chillers up to large industrial plant
• Carrying out planned preventative maintenance and F-Gas checks
• Commissioning and re-commissioning work
• Flagging remedial works and keeping customers informed on site
• Completing service reports and keeping job records straight
• Taking part in the shared on-call rota for out-of-hours support
• Lending a hand to the rest of the team when it is needed

Skills

F-Gas Category 1

Full UK driving licence

Chillers / industrial refrigeration

Job description

The Chiller Service Engineer position, based in Birmingham and covering the Midlands, is a full-time, permanent field role with a salary between £42,000 and £50,000 per annum, dependent on experience. Working for a regional specialist, the successful applicant will deliver service and maintenance across industrial and commercial sites, including manufacturing plants, breweries, food production facilities, and data centres.

Responsibilities include planned preventative maintenance, fault finding, and reactive breakdown response within a 70-mile radius of the city. Candidates should possess strong diagnostic skills and previous experience with industrial chiller systems. The role involves participation in a 24/7 call-out rota, ensuring reliable operation for clients with critical cooling requirements.

An excellent opportunity for an experienced Chiller Service Engineer to join a well-established company.

Job Title: Chiller Service Engineer (Service & Maintenance) Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent. Salary: £42,000 - £50,000 Per Annum, Depending on Experience. Location: Birmingham & Midlands.

About The Company: Birmingham-based chiller specialist. They handle sales, hire, service and maintenance for industrial and commercial sites across the region, including manufacturing, injection moulding, breweries, food production and data centres. Most of their work falls within 70 miles of the city, and they provide 24/7 breakdown cover for the customers who need it.

They are looking for an experienced Service Engineer to join their team.

About The Role: Field-based service and maintenance work across customer sites. You will be diagnosing faults, carrying out planned maintenance and responding to breakdowns on process and comfort cooling systems, from small process chillers up to large industrial plant. We are a small team, so everyone mucks in. Some days that means a straightforward maintenance visit, some days it means a breakdown that keeps you there until it is fixed. If that sounds fine to you, you will fit in well here.

Key Responsibilities

• Fault diagnosis and repair on process and comfort cooling systems, from small process chillers up to large industrial plant
• Carrying out planned preventative maintenance and F-Gas checks
• Commissioning and re-commissioning work
• Flagging remedial works and keeping customers informed on site
• Completing service reports and keeping job records straight
• Taking part in the shared on-call rota for out-of-hours support
• Lending a hand to the rest of the team when it is needed

What they are looking for

• F-Gas Category 1
• A full UK driving licence and
• A track record on chillers or industrial refrigeration plant

Beyond the certificates, the quality they really care about is diagnostic ability: someone who can confidently fault find. Just as important is attitude. They want someone reliable who turns up, gets the job done properly, is decent with customers and pulls their weight for the rest of the team.

Additional Qualifications (useful but not essential)

• Electrical qualifications (17th / 18th Edition)
• Experience with glycol systems, water chillers or heat pumps
• Process cooling in a manufacturing environment
• IPAF, PASMA or CSCS

What it is like to work there

They are a small firm and everyone knows everyone. If something is not working, you can say so and it will get changed, because there is no head office to raise a ticket with and no six-week wait. Nobody here says that is not my job. Everybody helps each other out, and the ones who have been here a while are happy to share what they know. They invest properly in training and certification. The team here is settled, the work is steady, and the customers are long-standing.

The package

• £42,000 – £50,000 depending on experience
• Company van, including personal use
• On-call allowance paid on top, plus proper overtime rates
• Ongoing training and certification support
• Established business with steady, year-round work

The employer fully supports Equality in Employment. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit and business need.