Refrigeration Managing Engineer

Arcus FM Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 56,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading facilities management company seeks a Senior Refrigeration Engineer for a pivotal role in Croydon and South East London. You will manage a team of engineers, ensuring the timely completion of maintenance tasks and providing crucial technical support. Candidates need a full UK driving license, relevant qualifications, and strong supervisory skills ideally within the supermarket refrigeration arena. Enjoy a competitive salary, flexible working hours, and extensive benefits including pension contributions, training opportunities, and generous annual leave.

Benefits

Group personal pension scheme

25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays

Life Assurance

Access to state-of-the-art training academy

Health Cash Plan

Qualifications

• Full UK driving license is essential.
• Minimum 5 years post qualification experience in a mobile role.
• Demonstrable management/supervisory experience is desirable.
• Experience in an FM environment and supermarket refrigeration.

Responsibilities

• Supervise a team of Refrigeration Engineers.
• Manage call-out rota and ensure safety.
• Provide technical support to the team.
• Assist with HR processes and performance management.

Skills

Customer service orientation

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work under pressure

Team supervision

Education

City & Guilds qualified in Refrigeration or equivalent

18th Edition (desirable)

Job description

Are you a Senior Refrigeration Engineer, looking for your next step into a Managing Engineer role? If so we have an opportunity for you. You will reside within the Croydon and South East London or the surrounding areas and have proven supermarket refrigeration experience.

Or are you already a Managing Engineer within Refrigeration looking to join a strong and stable company within the Supermarket FM area ?

At a Glance

• Salary: £55,988 per annum
• Up to 4% discretionary bonus scheme, subject to achievement of targets
• Overtime paid at time and a half
• Full door-to-door pay

You will have responsibility for a team of Refrigeration Engineers to ensure that planned and reactive maintenance tasks are completed on-time and to budget. You will also be responsible for the call-out rota and ensure adequate and safe cover at all times.

• Supervise the team, being their daily point of contact, provide management support, guidance, training and development to colleagues to achieve a consistent and high level of customer service
• Provide technical support and training to your team of Refrigeration Engineers
• Control staffing on a day to day basis including management of an "on-call" rota
• Assist Area Support Manager with relevant HR processes including: completion of return to work forms; handling and reporting disciplinary incidents, holding performance review meetings and managing performance on a day to day basis for under-performing colleagues, scheduling holiday and absence cover, investigate, record and escape any accidents or nears misses as directed by the Health & Safety Policy
• Provide technical support as required, e.g. advice regarding major operational issues and provide assistance for major incidents
• Assist the team in delivering high quality PPM work
• Work with Area Support Manager to deal with and make safe all Health & Safety related issues in own area and that of engineers, report and escalations as necessary, including any matters relating to PPE
• Assist Area Support Manager with effective budgetary management of parts and material usage, reporting overspend and variances to budget
• Attend client and manager meetings on behalf of the business within your region

You'll enjoy working autonomously in a pressurised environment and be able to prioritise a complex and demanding workload. You'll have excellent written and verbal communications skills, enabling you to communicate all operational issues within your region. You'll be customer service driven and enjoy working within a people focused environment.

• Full UK driving license is essential
• City & Guilds qualified in Refrigeration (or equivalent), including F-Gas
• 18th Edition (desirable but not essential)
• Minimum 5 years post qualification experience, working on a mobile basis in chosen field
• Demonstrable management/supervisory experience (desirable)
• Must have experience in an FM environment and have Refrigeration Engineering experience within Supermarkets.
• Excellent communication skills, ability to influence and use diplomacy with clients and colleagues
• Ability to supervise engineers in a pressurised environment dealing with store teams and members of the public
• Capable of prioritising a complex and demanding workload

OTHER FACTORS

As our clients predominantly operate on a 24/7 basis, there is a requirement to be flexible with your working hours to protect customer service levels and provide continuity of service, including weekend working and on-call cover. (1 in 4 Saturdays, 1 in 4 weeks on call - included within the salary for this vacancy.

Further Benefits

• Group personal pension scheme of matched contributions between 5% and 6%
• 25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
• Life Assurance
• Access to state-of-the-­art training academy
• Funded Training Sponsorship Scheme
• Refer a Friend reward scheme
• Health Cash Plan
• Up to 10% off B&Q / Trade Point
• 20% off Nuffield Fitness and Wellbeing Centre

At Arcus we are passionate about individual development which is why we are proud to offer industry leading Learning & Development opportunities to our colleagues. At our National Training Academy in Stevenage we have our own in‑house team of experienced technical trainers who focus on upskilling and cross‑skilling our rapidly expanding mobile engineering team. Colleagues can expect to receive significant investment in safety and technical training to ensure ongoing development of their skills and expertise and to ensure we retain our industry leading self‑‑ delivery capability.

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