Refrigeration Manager

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

30 September 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 work with internal stakeholders and external consultants 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 & Futureproofing

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.  Through effective use of industry contacts and networking.

"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

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• 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