Maintenance Engineer - Automation

Tesco; Horwich; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading supermarket and technology firm in Horwich is seeking an Automation Technician for their Property Function. The role involves maintaining and repairing advanced equipment, ensuring safe operation and performance through thorough inspections. Strong problem-solving and communication skills are essential, along with hands-on experience in maintenance. The position offers an annual bonus and various employee benefits, including generous leave policies. This is an excellent opportunity to advance your career in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Annual bonus scheme

25 days holiday plus personal day

Free 24/7 virtual GP service

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in an engineering/maintenance department.
• Electrical/mechanical cross-skill training.
• Ability to maintain high standards in work.

Responsibilities

• Complete maintenance to an excellent standard.
• Supervise site performance for efficient operation.
• Document findings for major breakdowns and support budgeting.

Skills

Problem solving

Root cause analysis

Stakeholder management

Communication

Data analysis and presentation

Influencing

Tools

Automated equipment

Job description

Tesco UK • Horwich • Permanent • Apply by 22-Dec-2025

An exciting new role within our Property Function! We are seeking a skilled and motivated Automation Technician 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.

The Hiring Manager for this role is Mark Yates.

What is in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years' service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

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 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.

Requirements

• 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

About us

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award‑winning mobile network. Truth is, we're all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone's welcome. That's why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.