Maintenance Team Leader

Royal Mail Group; Newtownabbey; On-site; GBP 59,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading postal service provider in Northern Ireland seeks a Maintenance Team Leader to oversee automation engineering processes. This role involves providing technical leadership to a team and ensuring that automation equipment meets performance targets. Responsibilities include managing maintenance plans, leading preventative and corrective maintenance, and acting as a liaison between engineering and operations. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in automation engineering and prior experience leading technical teams.

Benefits

Company pension scheme

22.5 days annual leave

Enhanced maternity pay

Financial support services

Healthcare plans

Discounts and offers

Lifestyle benefits

Qualifications

• Extensive background in automation engineering and maintenance.
• Experienced at leading large teams of engineers.
• Reporting and data analysis experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of automation engineers and team coaches.
• Own and coordinate the Mail Centre maintenance plan for automation equipment.
• Lead daily preventative, predictive, and corrective maintenance.

Skills

Automation engineering

Team leadership

Data analysis

SAP systems

Education

Electrical engineering qualification – NVQ 3/ONC/HNC or equivalent

Job description

Maintenance Team Leader

Salary: £58,268 pa, company pension scheme, with highly competitive contribution rates, 22.5 days annual leave, plus bank holidays. Permanent, Full time. Northern Ireland Mail Centre, Newtownabbey, BT36 4HQ.

It's an exciting time for Royal Mail Engineering and Design are transforming how we work! Our Engineering vision is blossoming with the establishment of an in-house engineering design team focussed on innovation; transforming operational processes to improve the pace and quality we provide for customers as well as help us to achieve the business net zero strategy. With some exciting improvements deployed and more underway, the demand is growing for us to scale up across the business.

We have a vacancy to join our dedicated Engineering team at the Northern Ireland Mail Centre.

In this key role, you'll provide first line technical leadership, guidance and support to engineers across the Mail Centre, ensuring our automation equipment performs at its very best.

As a leader within our engineering function, you'll be responsible for delivering a high quality maintenance service that keeps our operation running smoothly and efficiently. You'll take ownership of the Mail Centre maintenance plan, ensuring our automation assets consistently meet performance and availability targets.

Attendance

Monday to Friday, approx 07:30 – 16:00 with a degree of flexibility.

Duties

• Manage a team of automation engineers and team coaches – develop, motivate the team through coaching, training and development.
• Own and co-ordinate the Mail Centre maintenance plan for automation equipment, ensuring that the asset performance and availability design criteria is achieved.
• Lead daily preventative, predictive and corrective maintenance to optimise automation assets.
• Act as the technical link between engineering and operations, communicate maintenance plans and updates to the engineering teams.
• Oversee implementation of approved equipment modifications and maintain configuration accuracy.
• Conduct audits, support reporting, data collection and root cause analysis for all maintenance/performance events and faults.
• Manage engineering risk assessments and ensure Safe Systems of Work are accurate and displayed.
• Monitor maintenance costs and manage engineering tools and spares using SAP.
• Ensure technical resources meet operational and maintenance demands.
• Have a hand‑on approach and support ad‑hoc maintenance, modification duties.

About You

• Extensive background in automation engineering and maintenance.
• Hold an electrical engineering qualification – NVQ 3/ONC/HNC or equivalent (essential).
• Experienced at leading large teams of engineers, providing technical leadership, guidance and support to the team and senior stakeholders.
• Reporting, data analysis and experience of using SAP based systems.

Closing Date

Tues­day 10th February – this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

Next Steps

If selected, the next stage of the process will be an interview plus presentation on 19th February.

Extra Benefits

• Family friendly support – enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave.
• Discounts and offers – more than 800 offers to help you save on groceries, days out, holidays and household bills*
• Sick pay – supportive and generous company pay.
• Your Wellbeing – 24/7 access to services and tools for physical, mental, financial and social support.
• Lifestyle benefits – options to purchase a car, bike, home technology or mobile phone, or choose from health benefits and insurance products.
• Financial support – information and services to help manage debt and grow financial knowledge.
• Healthcare plans – CashPlan, Dental Cover, Additional Life, Hospital & Death Benefit Plans, Voluntary Critical illness plans.
• Free & discounted RMG products – free keep safe & redirection, partner discounts.
• Free stamps – at Christmas.

*Available only to permanent employees.

EEO Statement

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.

Job reference number 335073