Regional Refrigeration Lead, South – Home-Based with Travel

OCS; West Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Retail perks via Hapi app

Flexible pay via Wagestream

Job summary

OCS UK & Ireland is seeking a Regional Refrigeration Manager to govern third-party maintenance across a multi-site estate. The role ensures safe, compliant and commercially effective service delivery, driving asset reliability, supplier accountability and risk reduction.

You will work from home with on-site presence up to 3 days a week, and travel across sites as required. A strong background in refrigeration, F-Gas compliance and supplier governance is essential.

Qualifications

• Significant refrigeration experience in retail, logistics or FM environments.
• Experience auditing maintenance quality, compliance and technical standards.
• Full UK driving licence and strong stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead on supplier performance reviews and governance meetings.
• Monitor KPIs, SLAs, response times and asset uptime.
• Challenge underperformance and implement improvement plans.
• Review resource models, engineering coverage and business continuity.
• Support supplier mobilisation, onboarding and service enhancements.
• Conduct planned assurance audits across stores and sites.
• Validate reactive and planned maintenance quality and outcomes.
• Review recurring failures, root causes and mitigations.
• Provide guidance on refrigeration plant, controls and leak detection.
• Support asset condition assessments and risk reviews.
• Audit refrigerant records and F-Gas compliance.

Skills

Commercial refrigeration

Supplier performance management

F-Gas compliance

Maintenance audits

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Full UK driving licence

Education

Engineering apprenticeship / HNC / HND or equivalent

F-Gas certification (desirable)

Job description

OCS UK & Ireland is seeking a Regional Refrigeration Manager to govern third-party maintenance across a multi-site estate. The role ensures safe, compliant and commercially effective service delivery, driving asset reliability, supplier accountability and risk reduction.

You will work from home with on-site presence up to 3 days a week, and travel across sites as required. A strong background in refrigeration, F-Gas compliance and supplier governance is essential.