Industrial Refrigeration Engineer - PRS

Industrial Refrigeration Engineer

Location: Scotland, Glasgow/Edinburgh

Salary: up to £50K plus benefits package & paid overtime x1.5 on weekdays and x2 on weekends

Industry: Refrigeration & Cooling Technologies (Food, Pharma, Industrial)

PRS has engaged with a key client and an innovative specialist within Cooling Technologies & Refrigeration Solutions supplied into industries such as Commercial, Food, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals & Industrial. We are seeking an Industrial Refrigeration Engineer to hire on a full‑time, permanent basis.

We are currently seeking an experienced Industrial & Commercial Refrigeration Service Engineer to cover various customer locations throughout Scotland.

• Proactively deliver engineering tasks received, including maintenance and service visits to food factories, RDCs, warehouses on a variety of equipment (Reciprocating, Scroll, Screw compressor packs including Ammonia, CO2 & HFC/HFO installations).
• Carry out service and reactive breakdown cover during normal working hours, supporting out‑of‑hours work as part of a standby rota.
• Observe internal and client support functions to meet the requirements and objectives of our customers and our business.
• Ensure that the engineering tasks received are supported with appropriate commercial awareness and business system compliance at all times.
• Responsible for the quality of each engineering task, ensuring all practices are followed.
• Participants conform to all industry best practice and legislative guidelines.

• Proven knowledge of the industrial refrigeration engineering services sector and the expectations of industrial refrigeration customers.
• Demonstrated technical competencies and certificates relevant to the skills required (e.g., 2079 refrigerant handling, ACRIB, Ammonia).
• Successfully completed a recognised training course/apprenticeship in industrial refrigeration.
• Good base knowledge of maintenance and service duties on medium to large industrial applications.
• Experience of large central plant technical diagnosis and fault‑finding for various installations; experience on refrigeration compressors from Grasso, Sabroe, J&E Hall, GEA, Mycom, etc.

• Overtime x1.5 on weekdays and x2 on weekends plus day in lieu on bank holidays.
• Standby rate £15 per day and £50 on bank holidays.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (pro‑rata into shifts for shift workers).
• Company‑funded health cash plan.
• Ability to buy and sell holidays – buy 5 days & sell 2 days.
• Life assurance.
• Auto‑enrolment company pension scheme.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Purchase an electric vehicle via salary sacrifice.
• Employee discounts with various brands.
• Learning and development programmes, training and career opportunities.
• Company vehicle.