Refrigeration Operations Manager - 6 Months Secondment

As a Refrigeration Operations Manager, you will provide exceptional service and store standards across approximately 1200 stores within the North region including NI and IOM, driving delivery and store standards and improvement. Providing support to the North Maintenance teams ensuring a safe, legal and functioning estate for customers, colleagues and stakeholders.

This is a hands-on role that requires a proactive mindset, strong problem-solving skills, and a commitment to delivering high standards. In return, you’ll be supported with ongoing training, opportunities to grow your career, and the chance to be part of one of the UK’s most recognised and respected retail brands.

The Hiring Manager for this role is Stephen Simants.

You will be responsible for:

Provide technical input for planned maintenance developments & regularly review content and effectiveness.
Input into planned maintenance implementation across the technical teams. Provide expertise relating to parts holding, obsolete parts and temporary solutions.
Driving problem solving, including identifying key and common issues, and developing effective solutions cross functionally.
Provide exceptional service and standards, demonstrating clear year on year reductions in our cost lines.
Provide a Regional view of Refrigeration compliance and legal issues to senior stakeholders with defined actions for resolutions and improvement.
Investigate KPI trends and develop plans to deliver year on year improvements. Building effective relationships and communicating clearly with stakeholders, managing expectations where required.
Leading and implementation of technical improvements and projects across the category Delivering great standards across the estate and ensuring compliance to all internal policies and applicable legislation.
Assist Capital teams with developing and delivering an annual improvement plan.
Ensure that the execution and close out of planned maintenance and reactive tasks is to a high professional standard.
Support internal and external refrigeration teams with availability and summer plans Supporting Regional Technical Manager with seasonal delivery (Fit For Winter - Fit For Summer Plans) & regular Listening sessions.

You will need:

Considerable and demonstrable Leadership, Technical and Maintenance Engineering experience
Experience in a similar scale remote / site maintenance engineering business
Effective multi-directional influencing skills
Senior stakeholder management
Qualified in Engineering discipline / time served
Advanced technical knowledge and understanding of Refrigeration Engineering,
Control and Remote Monitoring Systems
In depth knowledge of Gas Compliance Legislation
Engineering Innovation
Knowledge of asset life cycle management and maintenance methodologies
Hold professional registration Refrigeration operation, maintenance, and compliance

What's in it for you:

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Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary
Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

About us:

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.

NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.

We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please visit https://www.tesco-careers.com/accessibility