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Tesco; Aylesford; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus 10%

25 days holiday

Maternity leave

Virtual GP / EAP

Job summary

Tesco is seeking a multi-skilled Maintenance Technician with a mechanical and electrical bias to maintain and repair brand-new equipment at our Urban Fulfilment Centre. You will prioritise safety, drive improvement, and support colleagues across departments to keep operations efficient and within budget.

Shift pattern is 12-hour shifts, with days and nights, including weekends. The role offers a competitive benefits package and opportunities for professional growth within Tesco.

Qualifications

• Full Engineering apprenticeship or NVQ Level 3 in a relevant engineering subject.
• Experience working in mechanical and/or electrical maintenance.
• Hands-on experience in an engineering/maintenance department on highly automated equipment.
• Electrical/mechanical cross-skill training.
• Excellent problem solving and root cause analysis.
• Communication and stakeholder management.
• Analysis and presentation of data to support timely decisions.
• Setting and maintaining high standards.
• Full driving licence.
• Health & Safety awareness.
• Office 365 knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Complete maintenance to a high standard, logging items for revisits when needed.
• Operate with safety in mind, perform risk assessments for each job.
• Build relationships with colleagues and stakeholders across departments.
• Monitor site performance using availability and performance metrics.
• Be proactive with timekeeping and strive to improve the business.
• Document findings for major breakdowns/outages with root cause analysis.
• Support site budget adherence and repair/test replaced equipment for future use.
• Keep CMMS up to date and produce shift reports to a high standard.
• Assist in managing spare parts and hours usage within budget.

Skills

Mechanical maintenance

Electrical maintenance

Problem solving

Communication

Office 365 knowledge

Education

Engineering apprenticeship / NVQ Level 3

Job description

We are seeking a multi-skilled engineer with mechanical and electrical bias to join our team. In this role, you will prioritise maintaining and repairing brand-new equipment, applying your technical expertise to ensure outstanding performance and continuous improvement principles. A passion for customer service is essential, as you will understand the impact of your decisions and the efficiency of your maintenance work and will operate within your training and experience, ensuring a safe environment for all.

You will maintain and repair cutting-edge equipment In my nominated Urban Fulfilment Centre (UFC), utilising my experience and technical knowledge. You will ensure that equipment runs In It\'s optimum state through regular formal and Informal Inspections, completing maintenance tasks In accordance with good engineering practice, and strive to Improve the equipment where possible.

You will be responsible for

As a Maintenance Technician your specific responsibilities will encompass a wide range of tasks you will be responsible for:

• Completing maintenance to an excellent standard, whilst ensuring any items that need rectifying are either immediately repaired or logged and scheduled in for revisiting.
• Operate with safety in mind at all times, dynamically risk-assessing all jobs to ensure the safety of myself and those around me.
• Build effective relationships with my colleagues and stakeholders from all departments, ensuring strong bonds with my operational colleagues and supporting them where possible.
• Supervising performance of my site to ensure that we\'re always operating efficiently. I understand terms such as availability and performance, and utilising various means to measure these.
• Being proactive and dynamic with my timekeeping, ensuring that I give the best value to the customer within my working time. I actively look for ways to be encouraging and continuously improve as a business.
• Document findings for major breakdowns/outages, using root cause analysis methods and proven approaches.
• Support in ensuring sites maintenance budget is adhered to, through working with no-waste approach and repairing/testing replaced equipment for future use where possible.
• Administrative maintenance, ensuring the CMMS is up to date and truly reflective of the maintenance position on site and completing other tasks such as shift reports to a high standard.
• Support in the maintenance of the budget for my site by ensuring that spares/hours are accurately used and tracked.

You will need

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

• Served a full Engineering apprenticeship and/or qualified to a minimum NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in a relevant Engineering Subject
• Relevant experience working in mechanical and/or electrical maintenance
• Experience working hands-on within an engineering/maintenance department on highly automated equipment
• Electrical/mechanical cross-skill training
• Excellent problem solving and root cause analysis
• Communication and stakeholder management
• Analysis and presentation of data to achieve timely decisions
• Setting and maintaining of the highest of standards
• Full driving license
• Health & Safety awareness
• Office 365 knowledge

What’s in it for you

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Property Function for a Maintenance Engineer to join our team. We are looking for a multi-skilled engineer with both mechanical and electrical expertise who is passionate about maintaining high standards and ensuring the smooth operation of our facilities.

Shift Pattern: 12-hour shifts, 4 shifts per week, rotating days and nights, including weekends.

• Days: 06:00 - 18:00
• Nights: 18:00 - 06:00

What is in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work.Click Hereto find out more!

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank Holidays)
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adaption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.

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About us

Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.

It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.

We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.

But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.

We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers

Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.

For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com