Chiller Technician - Water Cooled Chillers £52K Base

Jamieson Clark; Tyseley; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading HVAC contractor in the UK is seeking a Chiller Service Engineer to perform maintenance and servicing on water-cooled chillers. Applicants should have over 3 years of experience and F-GAS CAT 1 certification, alongside strong communication skills. The role features a competitive salary, minimal emergency duties, and a career-driven environment with training opportunities.

Benefits

Up to £52k base salary

Overtime pay

Private healthcare and dental insurance

Matching pension contributions

Up to 27 days annual leave

Qualifications

• At least 3 years experience on serving water cooled chillers.
• Good communication skills as you will work directly with client engineers.
• Experience with large VRF systems is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Perform PPM, warranty, and maintenance on water-cooled chillers.
• Engage with clients and their engineers.
• Minimal emergency callouts or weekend work.

Skills

Experience on water cooled chillers

F-GAS CAT 1 certification

Good communication skills

Knowledge on chiller controls

Ability to strip down chillers

Experience with large VRF systems

Education

Level 3 NVQ in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning

Job description

Overview

• Up to £52k base salary
• Overtime - time and a half during week and double weekends
• Door to door
• New van
• Up to 27 days + bank holidays
• Matching pension contribution per month
• Private healthcare and dental insurance

Job Role

PPM, warranty, aftercare service and maintenance with some commissioning on the main HVAC manufacturers of water-cooled chillers. No shift work and very rare emergency call out or weekend work.

Experience Required

• At least 3 years experience on serving water cooled chillers
• F-GAS CAT 1 minimum and any other further refrigeration and HVAC qualifications will be of added benefit
• Good communication skills as you will be working on key customer client sites engaging with their static engineers
• Good knowledge on chiller controls
• Although it is not required anymore, if you can strip down chillers and make compressor changes etc this will be of great interest
• If you are a high level technical air conditioning engineer used to working on large VRF systems, perhaps with a level 3 NVQ in refrigeration and air conditioning then please still apply as chiller training can be provided

The Company

One of the largest M&E contractors in the UK.

Midlands Team of 8 chiller technician service engineers reporting into a Chiller Service Manager, who is a highly experienced and high calibre turbocor chiller technician with many long years in the industry, stripping and rebuilding chillers (they support on highly technical jobs and train new engineers when required).

The chiller service team have all been with the company at least 5 years and are looking for someone career driven and wanting to continually upskill on the latest chilled water HVAC systems.

They service water cooled chillers in large offices, hotels, universities, schools, museums, gymnasiums, public buildings, government buildings, MOD, hospitals, telecommunications, pharmaceutical manufacturing, light process industries and data centres.

Jamieson Clark currently has over 50 live roles to offer and specialise in HVAC recruitment. Current vacancies for Chiller Service Engineer, Chiller Technician, Chiller Engineer, HVAC Service Engineer, Air Conditioning Service Engineer, HVAC Install Engineer, Air Conditioning Service Engineer, Product Managers, Contract Engineers, Pre-Sales Technical Engineers, Sales Engineers, Sales Executives, Business Development Managers and Sales Managers providing air conditioning systems, central plant, fan coils, HVAC, heat recovery, heat exchangers, split systems, ducted, cassette, ceiling suspended, wall mounted, variable refrigerant flow, VRF, VRV, DX, Refrigeration, AHU's, Air Handling Units, close control, Chillers, BMS, water cooled air conditioning units and other product & service based sectors. Send your CV to a consultant for advice on your next career move