Senior Refrigeration Engineering Manager - Multi-Site Leadership

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

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