Job Title
Refrigeration Manager
Location
Asda House
Employment Type
Full time
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours Per Week
37.5
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits
Category
Industrial Installation
Closing Date
9 April 2026
"Let's find your Role"
The Refrigeration Manager is responsible for shaping and delivering Asda’s refrigeration strategy, ensuring all new sites, upgrades and models support long‑term efficiency, sustainability, and operational excellence. The role provides input into site selection and store design, leads system specification and oversees project implementation. They will also oversee the performance, compliance, and lifecycle management of the refrigeration estate. Working closely with property, construction, operations, sustainability and external partners, the Refrigeration Manager ensures that all refrigeration solutions are safe, cost‑effective, energy‑efficient, and aligned with the business’s strategic growth plans.
You will:
1. Refrigeration Strategy Development
Lead the creation and continuous refinement of the long‑term refrigeration strategy, ensuring alignment with future f‑gas regulations, cost‑efficiency targets, operational performance and energy‑reduction initiatives.
2. Estate Planning & Site Selection Input
Provide specialist expertise during site selection, acquisitions, refits, and new store planning to ensure refrigeration feasibility, optimal layouts, and long‑term operational cost benefits.
3. Refrigeration System Design Leadership
Work closely with external consultants to define standards for system architecture (e.g., CO₂ systems, natural refrigerants, heat recovery) and collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure designs meet efficiency, compliance, and business requirements.
4. Capital Investment Planning
Develop robust business cases for refrigeration investments, support annual budgeting and long‑range financial planning and assist in securing funding through executive approval.
5. Project Delivery & Implementation Oversight
Oversee end‑to‑end delivery of refrigeration projects—from scoping and tendering to installation and commissioning—ensuring they meet technical specifications, quality standards, timelines and budget expectations.
6. Compliance & Regulatory Assurance
Ensure all refrigeration assets, installations and operations adhere to F‑gas regulations, environmental standards, safety legislation and industry best practice.
7. Contractor & Supplier Management and Procurement
Working with Asda procurement team, select, evaluate, and govern refrigeration contractors/consultants and manage day‑to‑day relationships. Drive performance, negotiate strategic agreements and foster continuous improvement across the supply chain.
8. Asset Performance & Optimisation
Working closely with City FM, monitor estate‑wide refrigeration performance data to identify efficiency improvements, reliability risks and proactive upgrade opportunities. Lead optimisation initiatives to reduce downtime, energy consumption and maintenance costs.
9. Cross‑Functional Collaboration
Act as the refrigeration subject‑matter expert across property, store operations, maintenance, energy and sustainability teams. Influence decision‑making and embed refrigeration considerations throughout key business processes.
10. Innovation & Future‑Proofing
Drive the evaluation and adoption of emerging refrigeration technologies, digital monitoring solutions and sustainability innovations (e.g., natural refrigerants, energy recovery, predictive maintenance) to maintain competitive advantage.
"Let's find out about you"
* Detailed understanding of HFO and CO₂ refrigeration systems.
* UK recognised qualifications in Refrigeration & Air Condition systems.
* Experience of planning refrigeration system projects in a retail environment.
* Project Management
* Cost & Budget Management
* Compliance & Legislation
* Forecasting
* Managing Contractor, Consultants & Suppliers
* Stakeholder Engagement across all teams including internal and external stakeholders
* Strategic Thinking and Planning
* MCIOB – Member of the chartered institute of building (Desirable)
* Prince 2 or equivalent Project Management certificate (Desirable)
Everything you'll love:
* Discretionary company bonus
* Company pension up to 7% matched
* Company Car allowance of £5,700
* 15% colleague discount in store and online
* Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
* Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
* Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.
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