Fed up driving into London? This refrigeration service engineer role is based across Kent and the SE corridor – and that’s where you’ll spend the vast majority of your time.
A specialist refrigeration business is looking for an experienced Refrigeration Service Engineer to join a growing service team. The work is predominantly food production and fresh produce – multi-compressor packs, DX refrigerant systems, receiver parks, glycol water-chilled systems, cold storage plant, pumps, valves and actuators. Full scope. Not a narrow, single-manufacturer job.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll cover planned maintenance and reactive callouts mainly around the Kent, Sittingbourne, Dartford, Canterbury area, with very occasional travel further afield.
The business runs its own remote monitoring platform, which lets you check probe temperatures, pressures, alarms and room conditions before you travel. A significant number of issues get resolved without a site visit. That makes a real difference to how on-call actually feels.
What’s in it for you
The package is built for the SE market, not London rates – that’s the trade-off for spending your week locally rather than in the city.
£45,000 basic (experience dependent), plus:
- Overtime at time-and-a-half from 06:30 and after 17:30 – double time midnight to 06:00 and Sundays
- Travel paid door-to-door
- Company van with private use
- On-call 1-in-4 rota – £150 standby per week, call volume kept low by remote monitoring
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Auto-enrolment pension
What you’ll need
You’ll need a solid refrigeration service background, F-Gas certification, and the confidence to work across different systems and plant types without needing hand-holding. Familiarity with PLCs, BMS or control systems is useful but not essential. Experience with pumps, valves and hydraulics alongside the refrigeration side is a strong plus.
The UK Service Manager is direct and gets on with things – he wants engineers who do the same.
What you’ll be doing as a Refrigeration Service Engineer
A growing specialist business with a service team that’s actively expanding across the South of England. If you’ve been pushing into the city for years and want your local patch back – or you’ve always worked locally and want to keep it that way – this is the kind of role that’s genuinely hard to find.
What next?
If this sounds like the right fit, send over your CV – doesn’t need to be perfect.