Refrigeration Engineer Manager

COREcruitment; Exeter; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

COREcruitment is seeking a Refrigeration Engineer Manager to lead a team of engineers across a multi-site retail and industrial contract portfolio. This hands-on leadership role combines technical oversight, team development, and client-facing responsibilities to ensure performance, compliance, and reliability of refrigeration systems.

You will drive improvements, manage PPM and calls, and mentor engineers while coordinating with site managers and clients to define priorities and scope, and you

Qualifications

• Proven background as a Senior Refrigeration Engineer or Refrigeration specialist.
• Experience leading multi-site teams in retail and industrial environments.
• Strong knowledge of PPM, breakdowns, and project works on refrigeration systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of refrigeration engineers across multiple sites.
• Oversee planned preventative maintenance (PPM), reactive breakdowns, and project works on commercial and industrial refrigeration systems.
• Ensure compliance with F-Gas, H&S, PSM and client standards.
• Manage workload planning, call-out rotas, and on-call cover to meet SLAs.
• Drive first-time fix rates and improve uptime via root-cause analysis.
• Liaise with clients, site managers and stakeholders to agree priorities and scopes of work.
• Own documentation: P&IDs, maintenance records, risk assessments, method statements, and compliance logs.
• Support tendering, scope definitions, and resource planning for new contracts.
• Contribute to recruitment and training within the engineering team.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Refrigeration systems

Technical oversight

Client-facing

Job description

We're working with a leading facilities management and commercial refrigeration contractor to appoint a Refrigeration Engineer Manager to lead a team of engineers across a multi-site retail and industrial contract portfolio.

This is a hands‑on leadership role combining technical oversight, team management, and client‑facing responsibility. You'll ensure optimal performance, compliance, and reliability of refrigeration systems while developing your team and driving continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of refrigeration engineers and senior technicians across multiple sites

• Oversee planned preventative maintenance (PPM), reactive breakdowns, and project works on commercial and industrial refrigeration systems (including CO, transcritical, and parallel compression systems where applicable)

• Ensure compliance with F-Gas, H&S, PSM, and client‑specific standards and audit requirements.

• Manage workload planning, call‑out rotas, and on‑call cover to meet SLAs and KPIs.
  

• Drive first‑time fix rates, reduce repeat calls, and improve system uptime through root cause analysis and engineering solutions.

• Liaise with clients, site managers, and internal stakeholders to agree priorities, scopes of work, and improvements.

• Own technical documentation: P&IDs, maintenance records, risk assessments, method statements, and compliance logs.

• Support tendering, scope definitions, and resource planning for new and existing contracts.
  

• Contribute to recruitment, training, and competency development within the engineering team.

About You

• Proven background as a Senior Refrigeration Engineer or Refrigeration