Refrigeration Engineer Manager

Exeter Source: WhatJobs
£65,000–£90,000

We're working with a leading facilities management and commercial refrigeration contractor to appoint a Refrigeration Engineer Manager to lead a team of engineers across a multi-site retail and industrial contract portfolio.

This is a hands‑on leadership role combining technical oversight, team management, and client‑facing responsibility. You'll ensure optimal performance, compliance, and reliability of refrigeration systems while developing your team and driving continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and manage a team of refrigeration engineers and senior technicians across multiple sites
  • Oversee planned preventative maintenance (PPM), reactive breakdowns, and project works on commercial and industrial refrigeration systems (including CO, transcritical, and parallel compression systems where applicable)
  • Ensure compliance with F-Gas, H&S, PSM, and client‑specific standards and audit requirements.
  • Manage workload planning, call‑out rotas, and on‑call cover to meet SLAs and KPIs.
  • Drive first‑time fix rates, reduce repeat calls, and improve system uptime through root cause analysis and engineering solutions.
  • Liaise with clients, site managers, and internal stakeholders to agree priorities, scopes of work, and improvements.
  • Own technical documentation: P&IDs, maintenance records, risk assessments, method statements, and compliance logs.
  • Support tendering, scope definitions, and resource planning for new and existing contracts.
  • Contribute to recruitment, training, and competency development within the engineering team.

About You

  • Proven background as a Senior Refrigeration Engineer or Refrigeration

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