Engineer Coordinator in Blackpool

We are seeking a dedicated Service Coordinator/Engineer Coordinator to join our client, an air conditioning and refrigeration business. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing service schedules, coordinating logistics, and ensuring seamless communication between clients, technicians, and suppliers. This role offers an excellent opportunity to work within a dynamic team, supporting the efficient delivery of our services.

You will be working in their family-owned business serving their established and valued customer base, having built their reputation on maintaining the highest standards of customer service. You will be a driven individual capable of contributing positively to our continued success and strengthening our brand and reputation. You’ll be working Monday to Friday from their Poulton Le Fylde offices, efficiently coordinating and scheduling the dispatch and ongoing field operations of their refrigeration and air-conditioning engineers for national contracts and reactive call outs. From time to time, your work will also include visiting sites for audit purposes.

In return for hard work, dedication, and enthusiasm, you will receive a competitive salary and many work/life balance and personal development benefits.

• This role focuses on delivering the planned maintenance programme for national contracts, ensuring that service level agreements are met while providing ad hoc service engineers to attend breakdowns and call outs.
• Regular review and update of the Planned Maintenance (PPM) system and timely dispatch of engineers to deliver maintenance commitments.
• Dispatch of engineers to reactive call outs.
• Escalation of resourcing issues to management.
• Logging of records and ensuring engineers record information in the field.
• Communicating charges to clients and establishing agreement to proceed.
• Invoicing of completed work and payment follow up.
• Performance monitoring and provision of periodic data to management.
• Handling client interface for variance to programme due to absences.
• Ordering of parts and materials for engineers.
• Handling complaints.
• Auditing of engineer performance.
• Organising and managing service appointments using management systems and software.
• Coordinating logistics related to shipping and receiving, ensuring timely delivery of parts and equipment.
• Maintaining accurate data entry within relevant systems to track service activities and invoicing.
• Liaising with clients, technicians, and suppliers via phone and email, demonstrating excellent phone etiquette, complaint handling, and communication skills.
• Analysing operational data to optimise scheduling efficiency, absence management, and client expectation management.
• Overseeing the maintenance management system and workflow to ensure service standards are met.
• Assisting in performance monitoring to identify areas for improvement.
• Providing support to engineers in inventory control and order processing.

• Proven experience with maintenance management and dispatch systems.
• Strong understanding of the management and operation of deploying engineers in the field.
• Analysis skills with the ability to interpret data effectively.
• Outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal, with professional phone etiquette.
• Proficient in data entry with high attention to detail.
• Organised with the ability to prioritise tasks efficiently in a fast-paced setting.
• Previous experience in a service coordination or logistics role within the air conditioning or refrigeration sector is desirable but not essential.
• We are looking for a person who is experienced, organised, gets on with people, and can calmly do the job in the right way without alienating others.

• Minimum 3 years past experience in a service management role or similar.
• Full UK driving licence.

• Communication, organisation, and leadership skills are key to this role, being concise and accurate and able to listen.
• Interpersonal skills and an ability to handle complaints calmly and effectively.
• A steady hand, methodical, logical, and composed under pressure.
• Instincts and acumen to quickly learn new IT systems and maximise their benefits.
• An understanding of the importance of workflows and integrity of data.
• A core value of customer satisfaction.
• Comfortable working independently.

• Technical background in Commercial Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, and HVAC systems.
• Experience of service job management systems and field service engineer tablet use.
• A good educational record but must include higher education.

• Working environment: Modern office working environment with flexible working arrangements.
• Innovation: You’ll be joining us at a key development stage for our business, so will get the opportunity to design and influence the tools you’ll be using.
• Work/Life Balance: Strong emphasis on a healthy balance, working Monday to Friday. Company contributed pension.
• Reputation: Working for an established customer base where customer success and professionalism are paramount. You’ll feel proud to be serving major UK brands whilst strengthening your own brand.
• Benefits: Bereavement leave, company pension, employee discount, flexitime, free parking, on-site parking, sick pay.

The opportunity to join a respected, family-run business with an established customer base and play a key role in its continued growth.