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Refrigeration Field Service Engineer

Smart Search Technical LtdRochdale, Greater Manchester🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 15 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

Grow your expertise in specialist temperature-controlled equipment with this hybrid role, offering a competitive salary and excellent benefits. You'll thrive here if you have strong refrigeration and fault-finding skills, enjoying a dynamic field-based position with significant opportunities for professional development. Apply now to join a reputable company and advance your engineering career!

Quick Overview

Salary
£40k/yr
Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Rochdale, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Posted
2 days ago

Job Description

Location: Rochdale / Field-Based UK Travel

Salary: £40,000£45,000 DOE + Overtime
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent


The Role

We are looking for an experienced Refrigeration Field Service Engineer to join our team, working on specialist temperature-controlled equipment across pharmaceutical, healthcare and laboratory environments.

The role will involve servicing, maintaining, fault-finding, calibrating and validating stability chambers, environmental rooms and ultra-low temperature freezers.


Key Responsibilities

  • Service, maintain and repair refrigeration and temperature-controlled equipment

  • Diagnose electrical, mechanical, refrigeration and humidity faults

  • Carry out planned preventative maintenance, calibration and validation

  • Complete service reports and communicate findings to customers

  • Manage van stock and respond to breakdowns

  • Participate in an out-of-hours on-call rota

  • Travel throughout the UK, with occasional travel to Ireland


Requirements

  • Previous field service engineering experience

  • Refrigeration and/or laboratory equipment experience

  • Strong electrical and mechanical fault-finding skills

  • Full UK driving licence

  • F-Gas Category 1 desirable

  • Calibration and validation experience desirable

  • GMP experience desirable


Benefits

  • £35,000£45,000 salary DOE

  • Overtime opportunities

  • Company van and fuel card

  • Paid home-to-home travel

  • Daily allowance and expenses covered

  • 33 days holiday including bank holidays

  • Life assurance

  • Medicash health cash plan

  • Virtual GP

  • Company pension

  • Training and development opportunities

  • Birthday day off

  • Cycle to work scheme

  • Buy and sell holiday scheme


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