Maintenance Shift Lead

Royal Mail; Crick; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family friendly benefits

Sick pay

Benefits account on My Bundle+

Wellbeing resources

Job summary

Royal Mail Engineering seeks an experienced Maintenance Shift Lead to head a high-performance team at the Midlands Super Hub. You will drive maintenance strategies for automated assets, ensure safety, reliability and continuous improvement across PLC-driven systems.

The role requires hands-on leadership, strong knowledge of PLCs, hydraulics and electrical/mechanical systems, and proven capability to deliver world-class maintenance in a fast-paced logistics environment.

Qualifications

• Qualified engineer with essential NVQ level 4 in Electrical and Mechanical.
• Experience leading a team of engineers to improve performance.
• Industrial engineering maintenance experience with supervisory/lead roles.
• Hands-on with PLCs, hydraulics/pneumatics, electrical and automation systems.
• Strategic leadership, project and change management.
• Strong fault-finding and root-cause analysis capabilities (5-Why, Fishbone, DMAIC).
• Data analysis, KPI monitoring and maintenance reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety culture across automation assets with hazard identifications and risk assessments.
• Develop and execute shift maintenance strategies to meet targets.
• Supervise and coach maintenance technicians and SME.
• Line management of maintenance teams, HR policy compliance.
• Drive preventative, predictive and corrective maintenance activities.
• Manage shift budgets and cost-control for labour and materials.
• Lead root-cause analyses and corrective actions.
• Coordinate with Production, Engineering and Procurement for shutdowns and projects.

Skills

Safety culture

Shift maintenance strategies

Team leadership

Data analysis & KPIs

Root-cause analysis

Lean Six Sigma / TPM

Stakeholder communication

Change management

Education

NVQ level 4 in Electrical and Mechanical

HNC/HND in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering Maintenance

NEBOSH General Certificate

IOSH Managing Safely

ILM/CMI Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management

Tools

PLCs

Job description

Job reference 340465

Maintenance Shift Lead
Salary:£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.
Fixed Term, 12 month duration
Full time
Midlands Super Hub, Dirft Drive, Crick, Northampton, NN6 7GZ

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.

If you are currently employed on a fixed-term contract and are successfully appointed to this role, you will be offered a further fixed-term contract of employment.

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
You need to demonstrate the following skills and experience on your CV:

• 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 - essential requirement
• 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
• 4-week rotating shift pattern
• Includes 2 weekends per month

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

Extra Benefits

• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Supportive and generous company sick pay
• Benefits Account – You will have access to your personal benefits account on our ‘My Bundle+’ platform. There are more than 800 retail offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills as well as employer provided and voluntary benefits to suit your lifestyle
• Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone

Trust is the foundation of Royal Mail . We aim to be transparent about the qualities we seek and what a career with us entails, building trust from the start of your journey with us. Your interview is the first step, and we want you to shine. To help you prepare, we’ll provide your interview questions in advance, so you can have your best examples ready. At Royal Mail Group, we value trust and our people.

Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals. As a proud Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, we especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.

We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to support you during the hiring process, please discuss these with your recruiter when contacted.

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

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