Refrigeration Engineer – London, United Kingdom

Job Description – Refrigeration

Due to significant growth in our customer base, we are now looking to recruit experienced Commercial Refrigeration Engineers to join both our Reactive Engineering and planned preventative maintenance section.

Your Role

Based from home attending customer sites within your region

You will attend Reactive or PPM calls to repair and maintain equipment on our customer sites

Carrying out repair and maintenance activities within capability range

To communicate on a regular basis with our Operations Team providing updates on work tasks

To accurately and securely maintain all vehicle stock, tools and equipment

Our ideal candidate

F-Gas Certification

C&G electrical qualifications/experience

Walk in Fridge/Freezer experience

Stable work history with good engineering skills

Willingness to develop new skills and qualifications

Minimum City & Guilds level 2 qualified

CO2 and Hydrocarbons and has a minimum of 5 years’ experience

Full driving licence

Company Information

Who are we?

Miller’s Vanguard are proud to have been supporting all the UK’s Supermarket chains for over 40 years. We are the people in the background ensuring that supermarkets keep the Nation fed. Maintaining a wide and varied range of assets from food production equipment through to loading bay lifts.

Our service are as follows

Nationwide reactive maintenance

Hygienic Deep cleaning & Planned maintenance services

Refurbishment, logistics and installation of equipment

We do all of this with the firm foundations of being owned by the global Ali Group, whose turnover is in excess of £4 billion p.a.

Our people

Despite being a large operation here at Miller’s Vanguard we still firmly believe in running the business like we have done for the last 40 years, by valuing our biggest asset we have YOU…the employee.

Our team of over 500 employees have the advantage of working in state-of-the-art working environments:


New (2021) Technical response centre

Award Winning research, Innovation, and recycling facility

Industry leading Mercedes Benz fleet

We believe in providing you with the very best environment and tools to do the job.

Career Development

Training is also a huge part of our culture here at Miller’s Vanguard and our City and Guilds accredited training centre is where we coach and develop our employees regardless of your position or your length of service. We want to make sure that our staff can progress and keep pace with ever changing equipment technologies.

Your induction will take place at Miller’s Vanguard’s bespoke City & Guilds accredited Training Academy in Bury, Lancashire (accommodation etc. fully provided).

As you develop in the role supported by our training programmes you will then have the opportunity to progress your way through our pay grading structure.

Why join us?

We value our employees here at Miller’s Vanguard, so in return for your hard work we offer a number of benefits


32 Holidays per year pro-rata

You will be supplied with a full smart and modern uniform complete with a tablet

You will be fully supported by your local Field Operations Manager plus our Technical Support Desk

A fully stocked Mercedes Vito

Opportunity to participate in charity events

Long service awards

Company Pension

Regular staff ‘treats’ for employees and their families