Maintenance Engineer

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

Job summary

Tesco Maintenance Technician role with multi-skilled responsibilities in our Urban Fulfilment Centre, focusing on maintaining and repairing cutting-edge equipment and ensuring safe, efficient operation. You will apply your electrical and mechanical skills, adhere to maintenance best practices, and contribute to continuous improvement.

The role emphasizes formal and informal inspections, root-cause analysis, and budget-conscious maintenance, with strong customer-service focus and cross-department

Qualifications

• 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
• Full driving license
• Health & Safety awareness
• Office 365 knowledge

Responsibilities

• 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 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.

Skills

Mechanical maintenance

Electrical maintenance

Problem solving

Communication

Root cause analysis

Data analysis

Influencing skills

Office 365

Driving licence

Health & Safety awareness

Education

NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Engineering

Engineering apprenticeship

Tools

CMMS

Job description

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 In my nominated Urban Fulfilment Centre (UFC), utilising my experience and technical knowledge. You will ensure that equipment runs In It's 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.

As a Maintenance Technician your specific responsibilities will encompass a wide range of tasks 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 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.

As a Maintenance Technician your specific responsibilities will encompass a wide range of tasks. To thrive in this role, you will need to:

• 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
• Full driving license
• Health & Safety awareness
• Office 365 knowledge

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