Automation & MHE Technician - Preventive & Reactive Maintenance

Pets at Home; Creswell; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Private health insurance

Annual leave + bank holidays

Birthday day off

Discount scheme

Life assurance

Treats program

Job summary

Pets at Home (Stafford Fulfilment Centre) is seeking an Engineering Technician to maintain automated materials handling and related facilities. You will perform reactive and proactive maintenance to maximise equipment availability and throughput across a high-automation FC.

The role requires a multi-skilled engineer with electrical and mechanical experience, including conveyors, control systems, fault finding, and interpreting drawings.

Qualifications

• Multi skilled in both electrical and mechanical disciplines.
• Experience of planned preventative maintenance systems.
• Experience fault finding within MHE/Automation systems.
• Experience in interpreting both mechanical and electrical drawings.
• Experience of conveyor maintenance, motor controllers/inverters.
• Served a full engineering indentured apprenticeship and/or qualified to a minimum of NVQ level 3 or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Put health & safety best practices first in all work conducted and comply with standards.
• Conduct planned preventative maintenance on site equipment.
• React quickly to breakdowns and communicate with affected parties.
• Support continuous improvement by feedback to line manager.
• Provide high equipment availability to internal customers.
• Support the management of contractors.

Skills

Electrical & mechanical

MHE maintenance

Fault finding

Conveyor maintenance

Reading electrical drawings

Education

Engineering apprenticeship

NVQ level 3

Job description

Pets at Home (Stafford Fulfilment Centre) is seeking an Engineering Technician to maintain automated materials handling and related facilities. You will perform reactive and proactive maintenance to maximise equipment availability and throughput across a high-automation FC.

The role requires a multi-skilled engineer with electrical and mechanical experience, including conveyors, control systems, fault finding, and interpreting drawings.