Installation Technician

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing, successful business supporting some of the UK’s largest supermarket, fast-food, and coffee retail brands.

As part of our Installation Team, you will deliver, install, commission, and hand over commercial food service equipment across the UK. You will represent Miller’s Vanguard on-site, ensuring all work is completed safely, professionally, and to the highest standards.

The role involves nationwide travel and frequent overnight stays. You will also work closely with Installation Engineers, Reactive Engineers, and other departments to support customer requirements and business needs.

At Miller’s Vanguard, training and development are at the heart of what we do. You will receive a comprehensive induction and ongoing training through our City & Guilds-approved training centre, ensuring you have the tools and support needed to succeed from day one.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver, install, and commission commercial catering, bakery, and food service equipment.
• Carry out customer demonstrations and equipment handovers where required.
• Collect and deliver equipment to customer locations across the UK.
• Maintain excellent customer relationships and always represent Miller’s Vanguard professionally.
• Work safely and in accordance with company policies, procedures, and health and safety requirements.
• Complete small works installations, equipment relocations, collections, and deliveries.
• Accurately complete all associated paperwork and digital documentation.
• Assist other departments and undertake additional duties as reasonably required by management.

What We’re Looking For

Essential

• Full UK Driving Licence.
• Strong customer service and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Flexible approach to working hours and nationwide travel.
• Electrical, mechanical, or engineering experience.
• Positive attitude with a willingness to learn.
• Good understanding of health and safety practices.

Desirable

• Class 2 (Category C) HGV Licence.
• Experience installing commercial catering or food service equipment.

Experience working in a customer-facing field-based role.

Company Information

Who are we?
Miller’s Vanguard are proud to have been supporting all the UK’s Supermarket chains for over 40 years, in brief, we are the people in the background ensuring that supermarkets keep the Nation fed! Maintaining a wide and varied range of assets from food production equipment through to loading bay lifts.

Our service are as follows:

• Nationwide reactive maintenance
• Hygienic Deep cleaning & Planned maintenance services
• Refurbishment, logistics and installation of equipment

We do all of this with the firm foundations of being owned by the global Ali Group, whose turnover is in excess of £4 billion p.a.

Our people
Despite being a large operation here at Miller’s Vanguard we still firmly believe in running the business like we have done for the last 40 years, by valuing our biggest asset we have YOU…the employee.

Our team of over 390 employees have the advantage of working in state-of-the-art working environments:

• New Technical response centre
• Award Winning research, Innovation, and recycling facility
• Industry leading Mercedes Benz fleet

We believe in providing you with the very best environment and tools to do the job.

Career Development
Training is also a huge part of our culture here at Miller’s Vanguard and our City and Guilds accredited training centre is where we coach and develop our employees regardless of your position or your length of service, we want to make sure that our staff can progress and keep pace with ever changing equipment technologies.

Why Join Us

• Training in our City & Guilds accredited academy
• Job Specific Uniform & tooling for all roles
• Company wide fun days and charity events
• Company Pension
• 24 days Holiday allowance plus bank holidays
• Regular staff ‘treats’ for employees and their families

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