Refrigeration Engineer

Calibre Search; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 53,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare

Company vehicle

Life insurance

33 days holiday

Pension matching

Salary sacrifice schemes

Job summary

Calibre Search is seeking a Refrigeration Engineer to cover West Scotland, handling planned maintenance and faults across multiple retail sites. The role offers a choice of a 45-hour contract with a salary package including standby payments or a 40-hour week with pro rata pay, supporting a long-term retail contract.

Benefits include private healthcare, a company vehicle, pension matching, and 33 days holiday.

Qualifications

• NVQ/SVQ Level 2 or 3 in Refrigeration & Air Conditioning.
• F-Gas Category 1, C&G 2079-1 or equivalent.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Experience working on retail or supermarket refrigeration systems would be advantageous, as would CO2 and hydrocarbon knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Planned preventative maintenance on commercial refrigeration equipment.
• Reactive service calls and breakdown repairs.
• Refrigeration, electrical and control fault finding.
• Servicing and repairing refrigeration pack systems.
• Working with CO2 refrigeration equipment where experienced.
• Component replacement and remedial repairs.
• Checking equipment performance and identifying developing faults.
• Completing the required service and maintenance documentation.
• Working across multiple retail locations within your allocated patch.
• Taking part in the 1 in 4 standby and call-out rota.

Skills

Refrigeration & Air Conditioning

Fault finding

Independent working

Education

NVQ/SVQ Level 2 or 3 in Refrigeration & Air Conditioning

F-Gas Category 1, C&G 2079-1

Tools

CO2 refrigeration systems

Refrigeration pack systems

Job description

Salary: GBP47398 - GBP53319 per annum + Private Healthcare and Benefits

West Scotland

Not every Refrigeration Engineer wants the same working week.

This position gives you the choice of a 45-hour contract paying £53,319.36 including standby payments, or a 40-hour working week with the salary adjusted pro rata.

Whichever option suits you, you'll be looking after an established portfolio of retail sites across West Scotland, maintaining and repairing commercial refrigeration systems as part of a major long-term maintenance contract.

There's a 1 in 4 call-out rota, regular overtime for engineers who want to increase their earnings, 33 days' holiday, private healthcare and a 5% matched pension.

Your Patch

You'll work across a defined area of West Scotland rather than being tied to one site.

The job combines planned maintenance with reactive service and breakdown work, so you'll need to be comfortable managing your own day, diagnosing faults and getting refrigeration equipment back into operation.

The estate includes a range of commercial and supermarket refrigeration equipment, including refrigeration pack systems and CO2 plant.

Typical work will include:

• Planned preventative maintenance on commercial refrigeration equipment
• Reactive service calls and breakdown repairs
• Refrigeration, electrical and control fault finding
• Servicing and repairing refrigeration pack systems
• Working with CO2 refrigeration equipment where suitably experienced
• Component replacement and remedial repairs
• Checking equipment performance and identifying developing faults
• Completing the required service and maintenance documentation
• Working across multiple retail locations within your allocated patch
• Taking part in the 1 in 4 standby and call-out rota

Do You Need CO2 Experience?

It's useful, but it isn't stated as essential.

If you're already experienced with CO2 refrigeration, transcritical systems or hydrocarbons, that knowledge will be relevant to the estate.

However, additional training can be provided, making the position worth considering for an experienced Commercial Refrigeration Engineer who has strong service and fault-finding skills but wants to develop further on CO2 systems.

Qualifications & Experience

You'll need:

• NVQ / SVQ Level 2 or 3 in Refrigeration & Air Conditioning
• F-Gas Category 1, C&G 2079-1 or equivalent
• Full UK driving licence
• Experience working on retail or supermarket refrigeration systems would be advantageous, as would previous knowledge of CO2 and hydrocarbon refrigeration.

The important thing is that you're comfortable working independently as a mobile Refrigeration Engineer, carrying out service, maintenance and fault finding across commercial refrigeration plant.

Choose the Working Week That Suits You

The standard 45-hour contract provides:

• £53,319.36 annual salary package including standby payments
• OTE of approximately £60,000–£65,000
• Overtime opportunities
• 1 in 4 standby / call-out

Alternatively, there is a:

Pro-rata salary adjustment

Same opportunity to join the established regional engineering team

The wider benefits include:

• Company vehicle
• 33 days' holiday including bank holidays
• Life insurance
• Specialist tools and PPE
• Salary sacrifice schemes

The Work Behind the Role

This is part of a large retail maintenance operation supporting refrigeration equipment across multiple sites.

That means an established workload, structured maintenance programme and long-term requirement for refrigeration engineering support across the region.

It's particularly well suited to an experienced Refrigeration Engineer, Commercial Refrigeration Engineer or Refrigeration Service Engineer who wants the stability of a major retail contract without being based at the same site every day.

Find Out More

Engineers from supermarket refrigeration, retail refrigeration, commercial refrigeration and field service backgrounds are all relevant, including those looking to develop their experience on CO2 systems.