Maintenance Engineer - Automated Warehouse (4-on-4-off)

Gap Technical Ltd; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Gap Technical Ltd is recruiting a Maintenance Engineer for a Gloucester site. The role offers £40 per hour with day and night shifts on a 4 on 4 off pattern in a highly automated warehouse environment.

The successful candidate will provide electrical and multi‑skilled maintenance to support reliability of automated material handling systems, cranes, conveyors, and sensors, while ensuring safe operation and compliance with permits to work.

Qualifications

• Time-served engineer or demonstrable industry experience.
• Strong electrical bias with automated warehouse/ intralogistics experience.
• Experience with Siemens/Allen‑Bradley PLC fault-finding and 3‑phase systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide reactive breakdown support to minimise downtime across automated warehouse systems.
• Carry out planned and preventative maintenance per site schedules.
• Diagnose electrical faults using schematics, diagnostics, and asset history.
• Identify and rectify recurring faults, implement permanent corrective actions.
• Maintain and optimise automated material handling equipment (cranes, conveyors, sorters, motors, gearboxes, drives, sensors).
• Perform PLC fault-finding to support rapid system recovery.
• Support system reliability, uptime, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with operations, engineering, controls, and safety teams for safe operations.
• Support equipment modifications, shutdowns, commissioning, and refurbishment activities.
• Adhere to site health, safety, and permit-to-work systems.

Skills

Time-served engineer

Electrical bias

PLC fault-finding

Siemens

Allen-Bradley

Automation experience

3-phase systems

Motors & drives

Sensors

Independent worker

Communication

Tools

Siemens PLC

Allen-Bradley PLC

Job description

Gap Technical Ltd is recruiting a Maintenance Engineer for a Gloucester site. The role offers £40 per hour with day and night shifts on a 4 on 4 off pattern in a highly automated warehouse environment.

The successful candidate will provide electrical and multi‑skilled maintenance to support reliability of automated material handling systems, cranes, conveyors, and sensors, while ensuring safe operation and compliance with permits to work.