Permanent Automation Maintenance Engineer: Robotics

MotionTech; Hinckley; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £58,000

Overtime opportunities

Structured technical training

Permanent contract

Job summary

MotionTech is recruiting a maintenance engineer to join an on-site team in Hinckley, Leicestershire, working 12-hour rotating shifts (days and nights, including weekends). You will maintain advanced automated material handling systems and respond quickly to faults to minimise downtime.

You will perform planned and reactive maintenance, fault-find across electrical, mechanical, and PLC-controlled equipment, and use CMMS to log activities and monitor performance.

Qualifications

• Proven maintenance experience in logistics, automation, FMCG, or manufacturing.
• Strong fault-finding skills across electrical, mechanical, and PLC-controlled systems.
• Hands-on experience with conveyors, drives, gearboxes, and pneumatics.
• Comfortable working 12-hour rotating shifts including nights and weekends.

Responsibilities

• Deliver planned preventative maintenance across automated material handling systems.
• Respond to breakdowns quickly, diagnosing and resolving faults to minimise downtime.
• Fault-find on electrical, mechanical, and PLC-controlled equipment.
• Maintain conveyors, motors, gearboxes, pneumatics, and automated handling systems.
• Use the CMMS to log maintenance activity and track performance data.

Skills

Maintenance fault-finding

12-hour shift experience

Logistics/automation experience

Conveyors and pneumatics familiarity

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Electrical/Mechanical/Multi-Skilled Engineering

Tools

CMMS platforms

Job description

MotionTech is recruiting a maintenance engineer to join an on-site team in Hinckley, Leicestershire, working 12-hour rotating shifts (days and nights, including weekends). You will maintain advanced automated material handling systems and respond quickly to faults to minimise downtime.

You will perform planned and reactive maintenance, fault-find across electrical, mechanical, and PLC-controlled equipment, and use CMMS to log activities and monitor performance.