Maintenance Engineer - Automation - Coventry

Tesco; Coventry; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus up to 10%

25 days holiday + personal day

Maternity and adoption leave

Virtual GP & wellbeing support

Job summary

Tesco Property Function is seeking a multi‑skilled engineer with a mechanical and electrical bias to join our team at the Urban Fulfilment Centre. You will prioritise maintaining and repairing brand‑new equipment, applying your technical expertise to deliver outstanding performance and continuous improvement while ensuring excellent customer service.

You will perform regular inspections, log maintenance, and work within safety guidelines.

Qualifications

• Full Engineering apprenticeship and/or NVQ Level 3 in a relevant Engineering subject.
• Experience in mechanical and/or electrical maintenance on highly automated equipment.
• Electrical/mechanical cross‑skill training.
• Excellent problem solving and root cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Complete maintenance to an excellent standard and log or schedule repairs as needed.
• Operate with safety in mind and risk‑assess jobs to protect all on site.
• Build relationships with colleagues and stakeholders across departments.
• Supervise site performance to ensure availability and efficiency.
• Be proactive with timekeeping and seek ways to improve as a business.
• Document findings for major breakdowns using root cause analysis methods.
• Assist in maintaining the site budget by tracking spares and hours used.
• Keep CMMS up to date and generate high‑quality shift reports.
• Support budget maintenance for the site through efficient use of resources.

Skills

Maintenance experience

Root cause analysis

Communication & stakeholder management

Problem solving

Timekeeping & budgeting awareness

Education

Engineering apprenticeship/NVQ Level 3

Job description

An exciting new role within our Property Function! 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.

About the role

An exciting new role within our Property Function! 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.

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 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.

You will need

• 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

Whats in it for you?

• 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 (12 months service required at the qualifying date) 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.

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.

The above information is a shortened summary, refer to our policies for full details

If you need support with your application, And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.