Senior Maintenance Shift Lead: Automation & Reliability

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

Benefits offered by this job

Family friendly benefits

Sick pay

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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

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.