Refrigeration Managing Engineer

Arcus FM; Wimbledon; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Matched Pension scheme 4.5%

Health Cash Plan & Life Assurance

Cycle to Work Scheme

Refer a Friend reward scheme

Training Sponsorship Scheme

Access to state-of-the-art training

Job summary

Arcus FM in South London is seeking a Senior Refrigeration Engineer stepping into a Managing Engineer role. You will lead a team of Refrigeration Engineers across supermarket FM environments, ensuring planned and reactive maintenance is delivered on time and to budget, and overseeing the on-call rota.

The role demands a strong communicator with proven FM supermarket experience, a full UK driving licence and City & Guilds Refrigeration qualification (F-Gas desirable).

Qualifications

• Senior refrigeration knowledge with supermarket exposure.
• Proven managerial/supervisory experience.
• Excellent communication and customer service skills.
• Full UK driving licence required.

Responsibilities

• Supervise Refrigeration Engineers; daily point of contact and development.
• Provide technical support and training to the team.
• Manage staffing and on-call rota with budget adherence.
• Support HR processes: returns to work, disciplinaries, performance reviews.
• Advise on major operational issues and assists with major incidents.
• Deliver high-quality PPM work and safety compliance.
• Collaborate with Area Support Manager on budget and PPE matters.
• Attend client/manager meetings within the region.

Skills

Leadership

Refrigeration

FM experience

Supermarket service

Communication

Education

City & Guilds Refrigeration

F-Gas (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 South London and the wider 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: £60,668 (including location allowance of £3,000 per annum)
• Up to 4% discretionary bonus scheme, subject to achievement of target
• Overtime paid at time and a half

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 time

• 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 accelerate as necessary, including any matters relating toPPE
• 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 communication 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-Gas18th 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 work load

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: 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Matched contribution Pension scheme of 4.5% up
• to 6%Health Cash Plan & Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work SchemeDiscounts, vouchers, and financial aid programs
• Refer a Friend reward scheme
• Funded Training Sponsorship Scheme

Access to state-of-the-art training academy

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.