Electrically biased Engineer - Onsite - Castle Donington, Leicestershire

Everyone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you. And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.

Our global Distribution team is responsible for delivering our customers the products they love, efficiently, and sustainably, all over the world. We’ve made a significant investment in our automation technology at our 900,000 sq ft Castle Donington Distribution Centre and because of this we now need an Electrically biased Multi Skilled Engineer to join our team who will support with our boxed expansion programme.

The role will be pivotal to our transformation and investment programme and will allow for involvement and exposure to some of the most groundbreaking automation. Our Engineers are essential to ensuring everything runs efficiently onsite, and carry out reactive, preventative, and predictive maintenance on both our electrical and mechanical automated equipment. Using information from different sources and systems, analysing the data to identify under-performing equipment, striving to improve reliability and performance through continuous improvement methodologies and root cause analysis.

Our Engineers work a shift pattern which involves a mixture of earlies 6.00am to 18.00pm and through the nights 18.00pm to 6.00am with blocks of 4 and 5 rest days across the 4-week rotating shift pattern.

What’s in it for you: Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever-evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us. Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special:

• After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you’re passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Work with a team of Engineers, Inspections Technicians and Senior Engineers to resolve reactive breakdowns, carry out planned preventative and corrective maintenance in a highly automated environment.
• Use root cause analysis tools to drive reliability through delivery of continuous improvement projects.
• Put health and safety first continually raising awareness of hazards and resolving potential safety issues.
• Work collaboratively and liaise with other site functions ensuring we deliver for our customers every day.
• Develop yourself and others with the support of our onsite Training Team.

Your skills and experience will include:

• You will need to be multi-skilled, and be able to provide evidence of recognised training in both Mechanical and Electrical Engineering i.e ONC/HNC level qualification.
• Engineering experience in a manufacturing or distribution environment or similar and have previously a recognised Apprenticeship in an appropriate Engineering field.
• Able to demonstrate a continuous improvement approach and be able to deal with conflicting priorities with ease in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment.
• Enjoy mentoring and developing others and working as part of a team to achieve tangible results.
• Good knowledge and understanding of CMMS systems/databases and comfortable working at heights of 25 metres.

Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen. We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you’d benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.