Maintenance Shift Lead

Royal Mail; Crick; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent benefits

Annual bonus up to 10%

Job summary

Royal Mail Engineering seeks an experienced Engineering Maintenance Shift Manager to lead a high-performing team at a state-of-the-art Midlands hub. You will drive maintenance performance, improve asset reliability and implement a world-class maintenance strategy across automated systems.

You will lead safety-focused maintenance planning, develop shift strategies, manage budgets, and coordinate with Production, Engineering and Procurement to schedule shutdowns and capital projects.

Qualifications

• Qualified engineer with electrical and mechanical emphasis.
• Experience leading engineers and supervisors.
• Hands-on PLC, hydraulics/pneumatics and automation.
• Health and safety certifications (NEBOSH or higher).

Responsibilities

• Lead safety culture and ensure compliance across automation assets.
• Develop and execute shift maintenance strategies to meet targets.
• Supervise maintenance technicians and drive high-performance culture.
• Manage shift budgets and allocate resources effectively.
• Lead root-cause analyses and implement corrective actions.

Skills

Engineering leadership

PLC systems

Safety leadership

Root-cause analysis

Education

NVQ Level 4 in Electrical & Mechanical

Lead Engineering Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship

Tools

PLC Programming

Job description

Royal Mail is something special, a well-loved brand people can rightly be proud of. We have the assets, the infrastructure and the scale that others don't, yet we are a big part of the communities we operate in, making billions of precious deliveries each year. Our people are at the heart of our business and are integral to helping us to utilise the latest technology and business approaches to optimise, automate and digitise our operations.

Job reference number342502

Maintenance Shift Lead £58,022 subject to experience, plus additional shift allowance and Sunday premium payments.Potential earnings package exceeding £67,000 per annum, plus up to 10% annual bonus and excellent benefits.

Full time

Permanent

Royal Mail Engineering is seeking an experienced Engineering Maintenance Shift Manager to lead a high-performing team at our state-of-the-art Midlands Super Hub.

This is an exciting opportunity for a proven maintenance leader with experience in automation, robotics, PLC-controlled systems, mechanical and electrical engineering, reliability engineering and continuous improvement. You'll play a key role in maintaining the performance, safety and reliability of critical automated equipment that supports one of the UK's largest logistics and distribution operations.

Working within a fast-paced operational environment, you'll lead engineering teams, drive maintenance performance, improve asset reliability and deliver a world-class maintenance strategy across advanced automation and material handling systems.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead and promote a safety culture to include hazard identifications, risk assessments, incident investigations, and implement corrective and preventive actions. Ensure complete compliance with all safety regulations across automation assets
• Develop and execute shift maintenance strategies to meet production targets and reliability goals
• Supervise, coach, and evaluate maintenance technicians and the SME to enable a high-performance culture
• The line management of maintenance teams, manage performance, attendance and leave, address employee relations matters, and ensure full compliance with HR policies and procedures
• Drive maintenance performance through effective planning and delivery of preventative, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities
• Manage shift budgets, track expenses, and implement cost-control measures for labour, materials, and external services
• Lead root-cause analyses of equipment failures, implement corrective actions, and monitor effectiveness
• Coordinate with Production, Engineering, and Procurement to schedule shutdowns, capital projects, and resource allocation

About you

• A qualified engineer, minimum NVQ level 4 in Electrical and Mechanical / Lead Engineering Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship – essential requirement
• Experience of leading, coaching and developing a team of engineers to improve performance
• Extensive experience in industrial engineering maintenance, including several years in a supervisory or lead role
• Hands-on expertise with PLCs, hydraulics/pneumatics, electrical and mechanical automation systems and multi-shift operations
• Strategic leadership, project and change management
• Advanced fault-finding and root-cause analysis (5-Whys, Fishbone, DMAIC) and leading continuous-improvement programmes (Lean, Six Sigma, TPM)
• Stakeholder communication and team development across shifts
• Data analysis, KPI monitoring and maintenance performance reporting
• HNC/HND in Mechanical, Electrical or Engineering Maintenance
• NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety (or higher)
• IOSH Managing Safely or working towards
• ILM/CMI Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management

Shift Pattern

Full time, equivalent to 41 hours per week.

• 12-hour shifts
• 07:00-19:00 Days
• 9:00-07:00 Nights

Closing Date: This advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

About Us

At Royal Mail we connect companies, customers and communities across the country, delivering a 'one-price-goes-anywhere', universal postal service to more than 30 million addresses. As one of the UK’s leading companies, we are focused on being recognised as the best delivery company in the UK and across Europe.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

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