Shift Lead – Automation & Robotics Maintenance

Royal Mail; Overstone; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family-friendly benefits

Sick pay and wellbeing support

Benefits Account access (My Bundle+)

Job summary

Royal Mail in the Midlands is seeking a proven maintenance leader to oversee automated material handling systems. You will lead engineering teams, drive maintenance performance, and deliver a world-class maintenance strategy for critical automation assets.

You will implement safety and reliability improvements, manage budgets, and coordinate with Production and Procurement. Essential qualifications include NVQ4 or higher, HNC/HND, and significant supervisory experience in industrial maintenance.

Qualifications

• Qualified engineer with NVQ Level 4 or equivalent in Electrical/Mechanical maintenance.
• Experience leading and coaching an engineering team to improve performance.
• Extensive experience in industrial maintenance with supervisory experience.
• HNC/HND in Mechanical/Electrical or related field is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety culture with hazard identifications, risk assessments, incident investigations, and corrective actions.
• Develop and execute shift maintenance strategies to meet production targets and reliability goals.
• Supervise and coach maintenance technicians and SMEs to enable high performance.
• Line management of maintenance teams including performance, attendance, and HR compliance.
• Drive maintenance performance via preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance actions.
• Manage shift budgets and cost control for labour, materials, and external services.
• Lead root-cause analyses and corrective actions; monitor effectiveness.
• Coordinate shutdowns, capital projects, and resource allocation with Production, Engineering, and Procurement.
• Extensive experience with PLCs, hydraulics, pneumatics, electrical and mechanical automation; multi-shift operations.
• Strategic leadership, project, and change management; drive continuous-improvement programmes (Lean, Six Sigma, TPM).
• Data analysis, KPI monitoring, and maintenance performance reporting.

Skills

PLC control systems

Robotics

Automation

Electrical engineering

Mechanical engineering

Reliability engineering

Continuous improvement

Team leadership

Root cause analysis

Lean/Six Sigma

TPM

Education

NVQ Level 4 in Electrical/Mechanical

HNC/HND in Mechanical or Electrical

Lead Engineering Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship

NEBOSH General Certificate

IOSH Managing Safely

ILM/CMI Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management

Tools

Siemens PLCs

Allen-Bradley PLCs

Job description

Royal Mail in the Midlands is seeking a proven maintenance leader to oversee automated material handling systems. You will lead engineering teams, drive maintenance performance, and deliver a world-class maintenance strategy for critical automation assets.

You will implement safety and reliability improvements, manage budgets, and coordinate with Production and Procurement. Essential qualifications include NVQ4 or higher, HNC/HND, and significant supervisory experience in industrial maintenance.