Automation Maintenance Engineer in Hinckley

An exciting new role within our Property Function! We are seeking a multi-skilled engineer with mechanical and electrical bias 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, 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 in for revisiting.
• Operating with safety in mind at all times, dynamically risk-assessing all jobs to ensure the safety of myself and those around me.
• Building effective relationships with my colleagues and stakeholders from all departments, ensuring strong bonds with my operational colleagues and supporting them where possible.
• Supervising performance of my site to ensure that we're always operating efficiently. I understand terms such as availability and performance, and utilising various means to measure these.
• Being proactive and dynamic with my timekeeping, ensuring that I give the best value to the customer within my working time. I actively look for ways to be encouraging and continuously improve as a business.
• Documenting findings for major breakdowns/outages, using root cause analysis methods and proven approaches.
• Supporting in ensuring sites 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 my site by ensuring that spares/hours are accurately used and tracked.

You will need:

• Served a full Engineering apprenticeship and/or qualified to a minimum NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in a relevant Engineering subject.
• Relevant experience working in mechanical and/or electrical maintenance.
• 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.
• Communication and stakeholder management.
• Analysis and presentation of data to achieve timely decisions.
• Influencing skills.
• Setting and maintaining of the highest of standards.

What's in it for you?

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work. These include but aren’t limited to:

• Holiday starting at 20 days plus a personal day rising to 22 days after 12 months (plus Bank holidays).
• Request flexible working from day one.
• Get 10% off and 15% at pay day weekends - save up to £2,000 a year with your Colleague Clubcard with an additional card to share with family outside your home.
• Access to free wellbeing services with a range of resources to support your mind, body, and life.
• Life cover of five times your pay and an award-winning pension with matching contributions up to 7.5%.
• Benefits to suit you, choose what you use - from discounts and shares to cycle to work schemes.
• Uniform provided and policies to support you for all of life’s moments, big and small.
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds.

About Us: At Tesco Property - Maintenance, it's our people that make us one of the leading retail maintenance providers in the UK. We operate in over 3,500 Tesco and One Stop stores, distribution centres, Tesco banks and head offices, to deliver first class maintenance and engineering solutions and support.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities.