National Refrigeration Manager

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United Kingdom, London, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling

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Hard Services (Trades & Engineering)

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National Refrigeration Manager

About The Role:

Working Hours: Monday to Friday 08:00 - 16:30

Location: Home based with national travel

Job Purpose:

The National Refrigeration Manager provides strategic leadership, technical governance and portfolio-wide performance oversight across a national refrigeration estate.

The role is accountable for defining refrigeration strategy, engineering standards, compliance frameworks and asset performance initiatives that ensure safe, reliable and commercially effective refrigeration operations. Acting as the senior refrigeration authority, the position provides leadership across self-delivered engineering teams, specialist service providers and support functions, ensuring refrigeration infrastructure supports operational resilience, food safety, sustainability objectives and long-term asset performance across retail, logistics and distribution environments.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

Extensive experience managing large-scale refrigeration portfolios.
Strong knowledge of commercial, cold storage and industrial refrigeration systems.
Experience managing internal engineering teams and outsourced service providers.
Proven track record in governance, compliance and asset management.
Excellent stakeholder management, analytical and leadership capability.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership & Portfolio Performance

Develop and maintain the national refrigeration strategy and asset roadmap.
Lead lifecycle planning, replacement strategies and investment programmes.
Establish engineering standards, specifications and operational policies.
Drive reliability, sustainability and continuous improvement initiatives.

Technical Governance & Assurance

Act as the national technical authority for refrigeration assets.
Lead refrigeration audits, engineering assurance reviews and governance forums.
Provide oversight of technical risk management and corrective action programmes.

Refrigerant Compliance & Environmental Management

Own refrigerant compliance and environmental governance frameworks.
Drive leakage reduction programmes and refrigerant stewardship initiatives.
Support transition towards lower GWP refrigerants and future technologies.

Asset Reliability & Engineering Excellence

Develop reliability-centred maintenance strategies.
Analyse asset performance trends and recurring failures.
Support predictive maintenance and condition monitoring solutions.

Industrial Refrigeration & Distribution Centre Governance

Provide strategic oversight of industrial and ammonia refrigeration assets.
Support emergency preparedness, incident response and business continuity planning.
Provide assurance over management of critical refrigeration risks.

Supplier Governance & Performance Management

Lead strategic relationships with refrigeration service partners.
Monitor delivery against KPIs, compliance requirements and contractual commitments.
Drive supplier improvement plans and technical capability development.

Stakeholder Management

Represent refrigeration within senior leadership and governance forums.
Provide technical recommendations on investment, risk and improvement priorities.
Lead technical support during major incidents and business-critical events.

Success Measures

Asset uptime and refrigeration reliability performance.
Refrigerant leakage reduction and environmental performance.
Compliance and audit outcomes.
Reduction in repeat failures and operational risk.
Delivery of lifecycle, investment and strategic improvement programmes.

Positioning Statement

The National Refrigeration Manager is the strategic leader responsible for refrigeration governance, engineering assurance, asset strategy and portfolio performance across a complex national estate. Through technical leadership, compliance oversight, supplier governance, asset optimisation and continuous improvement, the role ensures refrigeration systems remain safe, compliant, reliable and commercially effective while supporting long-term operational resilience and business performance.

About The Company:

OCS UK & Ireland is a leading facilities management company with 50,000+ colleagues and a turnover in excess of £2bn. We deliver innovative, award-winning services within facilities management, hard services, cleaning, security and catering.

Our mission is to make people and places the best they can be for our colleagues, customers and the communities we serve. Our commitment to doing business the right way is rooted in our TRUE values - Trust, Respect, Unity, and Empowerment.

Why Work for OCS?

✅Award-Winning Employer: Ranked 36th on Glassdoor’s Best Companies to Work For 2025 — we value and motivate our people.

🚀Digital Learning: The OCS Academy offers digital courses and resources to help you build skills and grow your career.

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📝Professional Growth: 600+ live learners across UK&I — Empowering colleagues with further development and qualifications!

💰Flexible Pay: Access a portion of earned wages before payday with our Wagestream App! (Contract Specific)

How to Apply:

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We are an equal opportunities employer and rely on a diverse workforce with a broad range of knowledge, skills, and backgrounds to deliver our goals. We offer an inclusive and welcoming environment and actively encourage applications from all individuals regardless of race, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or age.

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