Refrigeration Engineer – Reading/Birmingham & London

Serviceline; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading service provider in the UK is looking to recruit an experienced Commercial Refrigeration Engineer. This role involves attending Reactive and Planned Preventative Maintenance calls to ensure equipment is repaired and maintained at customer sites. Ideal candidates will possess F-Gas Certification, C&G electrical qualifications, and a full driving licence. Competitive benefits including training opportunities and a supportive environment are provided.

Benefits

32 Holidays per year pro-rata

Full smart uniform complete with a tablet

Company Pension

Long service awards

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in commercial refrigeration.
• Ability to carry out repair and maintenance activities.
• Good communication with operations team.

Responsibilities

• Attend Reactive or PPM calls to repair and maintain equipment.
• Maintain all vehicle stock, tools, and equipment.
• Communicate regularly with the Operations Team.

Skills

F-Gas Certification

C&G electrical qualifications/experience

Walk-in Fridge/Freezer experience

Stable work history with good engineering skills

Willingness to develop new skills and qualifications

Full driving licence

Education

Minimum City & Guilds level 2 qualification

Job description

Job Description – Refrigeration

Due to significant growth in our customer base, we are now looking to recruit experienced Commercial Refrigeration Engineer’s to join both our Reactive Engineering and planned preventative maintenance section.

Your Role

• Based from home attending customer sites within your region
• You will attend Reactive or PPM calls to repair and maintain equipment on our customer sites
• Carrying out repair and maintenance activities within capability range
• To communicate on a regular basis with our Operations Team providing updates on work tasks
• To accurately and securely maintain all vehicle stock, tools and equipment

Our ideal candidate

• F-Gas Certification
• C&G electrical qualifications/experience
• Walk in Fridge/Freezer experience
• Stable work history with good engineering skills
• Willingness to develop new skills and qualifications
• Minimum City & Guilds level 2 qualified
• CO2 and Hydrocarbons and has a minimum of 5 years’ experience
• Full driving licence

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.

Your induction will take place at Miller’s Vanguard’s bespoke City & Guilds accredited Training Academy in Bury, Lancashire (accommodation etc. fully provided)

As you develop in the role supported by our training programmes you will then have the opportunity to progress your way through our pay grading structure.

Why join us?

We value our employees here at Millers Vanguard so in return for your hard work we offer a number of benefits

• 32 Holidays per year pro-rata
• You will be supplied with a full smart and modern uniform complete with a tablet
• You will be fully supported by your local Field Operations Manager plus our Technical Support Desk
• A fully stocked Mercedes Vito
• Opportunity to participate in charity events
• Long service awards
• Company Pension
• Regular staff ‘treats’ for employees and their families