Automation Maintenance Engineer

Tesco PLC; Hinckley; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance 20–22 days

Flexible working

Colleague Clubcard discount

Wellbeing services

Life cover

Pension with employer contributions

Cycle to work

Uniform provided

Job summary

Tesco PLC in Hinckley is seeking a multi-skilled engineer with mechanical and electrical bias to join our Property Function. You will maintain and repair brand-new equipment, apply your technical expertise, and drive continuous improvement while prioritising safety and customer service.

You will perform inspections, logging tasks, and root-cause analysis to minimise downtime. The role requires an apprenticeship or NVQ Level 3 and hands-on experience with automated equipment, with opportunities

Qualifications

• Eng. apprenticeship/NVQ L3 or equivalent.
• Relevant mechanical/electrical maintenance experience.
• Hands-on work in an engineering/maintenance dept on automated equipment.
• Electrical/mechanical cross-skill training.
• Excellent problem solving and root cause analysis.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.
• Ability to analyze and present data for timely decisions.
• Influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Complete maintenance to an excellent standard and log items for revisiting.
• Operate safely with dynamic risk assessment.
• Build relationships with colleagues and stakeholders across departments.
• Supervise site performance for efficiency, monitoring availability and performance.
• Be proactive with timekeeping and deliver value to customers.
• Document findings for major breakdowns using root cause analysis methods.
• Assist in maintaining the site maintenance budget and manage spares/hours.
• Keep CMMS up to date and prepare shift reports to a high standard.
• Support in site budget management and equipment repairs for future use.

Skills

Root cause analysis

Problem solving

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Cross-skill training

Education

Engineering apprenticeship or NVQ Level 3

Job description

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.
• Operate with safety in mind at all times, dynamically risk-assessing all jobs to ensure the safety of myself and those around me.
• Build 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.
• Document findings for major breakdowns/outages, using root cause analysis methods and proven approaches.
• Support 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
• Support in the maintenance of the budget for my site by ensuring that spares/hours are accurately used and tracked.
• 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 Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues. It's part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we're proud to have been accredited as one of Britain's Top Employers again this year. We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers. But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business. We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
• 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