Maintenance Technician - Northern Ireland

Tesco UK; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK supermarket chain is seeking a Maintenance Technician for their Property Maintenance Team in Belfast. The role entails ensuring safety at sites, coordinating repairs, and collaborating with a diverse team. Candidates should have relevant electrical qualifications and prior maintenance experience. This position offers flexible working patterns, combining office and remote work.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Comprehensive induction and training

Inclusive workplace culture

Qualifications

• Confidently interact with external contractors.
• High energy levels and multitasking capabilities.
• Previous experience in maintenance or engineering required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all Tesco sites are safe and functional.
• Coordinate repairs with minimal customer disruption.
• Work closely with team members to share best practices.

Skills

Electrical Safety Circuit knowledge

Communication skills

Health & Safety awareness

Education

City & Guilds Level 3 – Electrical

Apprenticeship/Improver programme

Tools

Office 365

Job description

Overview

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. During your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love, and others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, or adapting to parenthood. We welcome conversations about flexible working throughout your application process.

Are you ready to be part of a diverse team that collaborates to deliver outstanding customer experiences? Tesco Property Maintenance is looking for hardworking and efficient Maintenance Technicians to join our growing Property Maintenance Team. At Tesco, our stores and offices could not function without the support of our integral teams.

As a Maintenance Technician your responsibilities will encompass a wide range of tasks. To thrive in this role, you will need to:

Responsibilities

• Confidently Interact with External Contractors: Coordinating repairs seamlessly.
• Work Collaboratively with the Team: Be a great colleague who understands the importance of quality service.
• Sustain High Energy Levels: Juggling tasks while maintaining efficiency.
• Assist the Management Team: Keeping our stores operating smoothly by maintaining equipment and facilities.
• Minimize Customer Disruption: Coordinating repairs with minimal impact on our valued customers.

Responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring all Tesco sites are a safe and functioning environment for customers and colleagues.
• Following the planned work schedule to achieve first time fix, improving efficiency, and effectiveness.
• Working closely with team members, sharing best practice and knowledge.
• General day to day store and property maintenance.
• Using mobile devices; phone and tablet, to drive the best approach in work completion and updates.
• Representing the Tesco brand by demonstrating our core values (serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day), maintaining a positive attitude & taking pride in wearing the Tesco uniform.
• Attending local and national meetings, providing valuable input and feedback.
• Supporting a diverse and inclusive culture.

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As a vital part of our Maintenance team, you will demonstrate enthusiasm for maintaining high standards. With previous experience in a maintenance, engineering, or construction environment, you will be digitally confident using a tablet to view daily work schedules and manage emails.

Operational Skills

• Completion of a recognised apprenticeship or improver programme or trade proficiency test / relevant trade experience
• Basic diagnostics: PCB/Microprocessor / HMI controlled systems /equipment
• Electrical Safety Circuit, - Basic Working Knowledge, fault finding and replacement.
• EICR Remedial Knowledge
• Full driving license
• Health & Safety awareness
• Communication & stakeholder management
• Office 365 knowledge

Required Qualifications

• City & Guilds Level 3 – Electrical (Or Equivalent)
• Apprenticeship/Improver programme
• EICR Remedial works experience

Preferable Qualifications

• City & Guilds Inspection & Testing
• ECoPs
• City & Guilds 18th Edition
• MEWP/IPAF Licence

At Tesco Property – Maintenance, it’s our people that make us one of the leading retail maintenance providers in the UK. We operate in over 3,500 Tesco and One Stop stores, distribution centres, Tesco banks and head offices, to deliver first class maintenance and engineering solutions and support.

With our comprehensive induction and our technical competency plan, we invest in training for our field colleagues to have the right level of skills and expertise for each role to work safely and provide first-rate asset management across our estate. We create a culture where every colleague is competent, motivated and professional, maximising the level of support we offer to Tesco stores.

From multi-skilled to technically-savvy technicians, we’ve got it covered. Our Operations and Maintenance Managers span the entirety of the UK; technically-minded individuals who support our field engineers to get the job done. Our Engineering teamwork to introduce a broad spectrum of award-winning new technological initiatives; from compliance testing to refrigeration, security to sustainability.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.