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Mobile Refrigeration Engineer
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Location: West Midlands – Candidates must live in postcode beginning with B, CV, DY, WS & WV
Employment Type: Permanent, Full- time
Hours: Monday – Friday (40 hours a week)
About the Company
Forest, a part of Mitie, is the market leading and national award-winning refrigeration contractor in the Foodservice and Food/Drink retail sector, offering excellent job stability through a portfolio of blue-chip, long-term contracts. Due to significant new business growth, we are recruiting experienced and qualified Commercial Refrigeration Engineers to join our growing team. Our partnership with Mitie brings a new level of potential, stability and opportunity for career development.
The Role
We are looking for an experienced Mobile Commercial Refrigeration Engineer to join our growing engineering team. You'll be working across foodservice, hospitality, and food & drinks retail, maintaining and repairing a wide range of chilled and frozen display and storage assets for a diverse portfolio of blue-chip clients. This is a hands-on, customer-facing role, ideal for an engineer who enjoys variety and working with high-quality commercial equipment. Please note to be considered for this position, you must live in a postcode that begins with B, CV, DY, WS & WV.
We offer a competitive package designed to reward experience, loyalty, and commitment:
1. Competitive Pay
2. Overtime
3. Standby
4. Annual Leave: 25 days plus Statutory Bank Holidays with option to purchase up to 5 additional days.
5. Long service bonus and exclusive discounts
Key Responsibilities
6. Install, service, and repair commercial refrigeration systems
7. Diagnose faults and carry out effective breakdown repairs
8. Ensure all work meets industry regulations and internal safety standards
9. Communicate clearly with clients and internal teams regarding work completed and recommendations
10. Maintain accurate records and documentation
11. Participate in an on-call rota as required
Essential Skills & Qualifications
12. Candidates must hold a current, valid F-Gas Certificate (Applicants without this will not be considered).
13. The ideal applicant will possess 10 years'+ experience working in the commercial refrigeration sector, specifically within restaurants and hospitality environments.
14. Strong understanding of commercial refrigeration systems in the foodservice/retails sector.
15. Professional, reliable, and capable of high performance, even during peak summer periods.
16. Full UK driving licence
There's a place for you at Mitie, join us today!
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Aleksandra Otlewska at .