Maintenance Engineer

Motiontech Lifetime Services; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Overtime opportunities

Structured technical training

Exposure to robotics systems

Job summary

Motiontech Lifetime Services in Peterborough is seeking an experienced Maintenance Engineer to service and optimise high-automation material handling systems. You will join a skilled on-site team and work across planned maintenance and reactive fault-finding on complex conveyors and PLC-driven equipment.

The role offers a permanent, full-time position with 12-hour rotating shifts (days/nights, weekends) and opportunities for overtime, with structured training and exposure to cutting-edge

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in Electrical, Mechanical, or Multi-Skilled Engineering.
• Proven maintenance experience in logistics, automation, FMCG, or manufacturing.
• Strong fault-finding skills across electrical, mechanical, and PLC-controlled systems.
• Experience with conveyors, drives, gearboxes, and pneumatics.
• Willing to work 12-hour rotating shifts including nights and weekends.

Responsibilities

• Deliver planned preventative maintenance across automated material handling systems
• Respond to breakdowns quickly, diagnosing and resolving faults to minimise downtime
• Fault-find on electrical, mechanical, and PLC-controlled equipment
• Maintain conveyors, motors, gearboxes, pneumatics, and automated handling systems
• Use the CMMS to log maintenance activity and track performance data

Skills

Fault-finding skills

PLC-controlled systems

Conveyors & pneumatics

Education

NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in Electrical, Mechanical, or Multi-Skilled Engineering

Tools

CMMS

Robotics exposure

Job description

Maintenance Engineer

If you're a Maintenance Engineer who thrives in technically advanced environments, this is a rare chance to work on some of the UK's most sophisticated automation systems.

£55,692 (inclusive of shift allowance) | Permanent | Peterborough
12-hour rotating shifts (days and nights, including weekends)

• Overtime opportunities on top of base package
• Structured technical development and training
• Exposure to advanced automation and robotics systems

Motiontech designs, installs, and maintains intelligent automation and material handling systems for major UK retail and logistics businesses. Their engineering teams keep high-availability, high-performance automated distribution operations running around the clock. It's hands-on, technically demanding work, and the investment in people matches the investment in kit.

You'll join an established maintenance team on-site in Peterborough, keeping cutting-edge automated material handling systems running at peak performance. Day to day, you'll split your time between planned preventative work and reactive fault-finding — with the tools, systems, and team around you to do both properly.

You'll

• Deliver planned preventative maintenance across automated material handling systems
• Respond to breakdowns quickly, diagnosing and resolving faults to minimise downtime
• Fault-find on electrical, mechanical, and PLC-controlled equipment
• Maintain conveyors, motors, gearboxes, pneumatics, and automated handling systems
• Use the CMMS to log maintenance activity and track performance data

What you'll bring

Essential

• NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in Electrical, Mechanical, or Multi-Skilled Engineering
• Proven maintenance experience in logistics, automation, FMCG, or manufacturing
• Strong fault-finding skills across electrical, mechanical, and PLC-controlled systems
• Hands-on experience with conveyors, drives, gearboxes, and pneumatics
• Comfortable working 12-hour rotating shifts including nights and weekends
  

Useful, not essential

• Experience with CMMS platforms
• Previous work in a high-speed automated logistics environment
• Exposure to robotics or advanced sortation systems

Benefits & culture

Financial: £55,692 including shift allowance, plus overtime
Development: Structured technical training with access to advanced automation systems Stability: Permanent role with a well-established automation business
Environment: High-spec, technically varied site — no two shifts are the same

Working arrangements

Location: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire | On-site Contract: Permanent | Full-time Shifts: 12-hour rotating days and nights, including weekends