Maintenance Engineer - Automation

About the role

An exciting new role within our Property Function! We are seeking a skilled and motivated Automation Technician to join our team. In this role, you will prioritise maintaining and repairing brand-new equipment, applying your technical expertise to ensure outstanding performance and continuous improvement principles. A passion for customer service is essential, as you will understand the impact of your decisions and the efficiency of your maintenance work and will operate within your training and experience, ensuring a safe environment for all.

You will maintain and repair cutting-edge equipment in our Urban Fulfilment Centre (UFC), utilising your experience and technical knowledge. You will ensure that equipment runs in its optimum state through regular formal and informal inspections, completing maintenance tasks in accordance with good engineering practice, and strive to improve the equipment where possible.

You will be responsible for:

• Completing maintenance to an excellent standard, whilst ensuring any items that need rectifying are either immediately repaired or logged and scheduled for revisiting.
• Operating with safety in mind at all times, dynamically risk-assessing all jobs to ensure the safety of yourself and those around you.
• Building effective relationships with colleagues and stakeholders from all departments, ensuring strong bonds with operational colleagues and supporting them where possible.
• Supervising performance of the site to ensure that we're always operating efficiently.
• Understanding terms such as availability and performance, and utilising various means to measure these.
• Being proactive and dynamic with timekeeping, ensuring that you give the best value to the customer within your working time.
• Actively looking for ways to encourage and continuously improve as a business.
• Documenting findings for major breakdowns/outages, using root cause analysis methods and proven approaches.
• Supporting in ensuring the site's maintenance budget is adhered to, through working with a no-waste approach and repairing/testing replaced equipment for future use where possible.
• Administrative maintenance, ensuring the CMMS is up to date and truly reflective of the maintenance position on site and completing other tasks such as shift reports to a high standard.
• Supporting in the maintenance of the budget for the site by ensuring that spares/hours are accurately used and tracked.

You will need:

• Experience working hands-on within an engineering/maintenance department on highly automated equipment.
• Electrical/mechanical cross-skill training.
• Excellent problem-solving and root cause analysis skills.
• Communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to analyze and present data to achieve timely decisions.
• Influencing skills.
• Setting and maintaining the highest standards.

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. 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 year of 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

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues, and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues. At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support. We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, please reach out for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.