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Working at Tesco

  • Company employees
    330,000+
  • Gender diversity (m:f)
    49:51

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  • United Kingdom
  • Ireland

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Join Tesco as an Electrical Engineer - Automation in Northamptonshire, UK, where you will play a vital role in maintaining automation systems and equipment at our Daventry Frozen DC. This full-time or part-time position involves both proactive and reactive maintenance to support operational throughput and site availability. You will collaborate with a diverse team to deliver outstanding engineering solutions with a focus on safety and efficiency.

Requirements

  • A recognised qualification in Engineering (required).
  • Previous experience in a maintenance, engineering, or construction environment (required).
  • Digital confidence using a tablet to manage work schedules and emails (required).
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Automation maintenance: Completing proactive and reactive maintenance to ensure automation system availability and operational throughput.
  • Root cause analysis: Creating documentation and using root cause analysis methods for major breakdowns and outages.
  • CMMS administration: Ensuring the CMMS is up to date and reflective of the maintenance position on site alongside completing shift reports.
  • Safety and risk assessment: Dynamically risk-assessing all jobs to ensure the safety of yourself and colleagues at all times.
  • Potential transition routes: People from mechanical engineering, general maintenance, or construction roles may bring strong problem-solving and technical skills, alongside meeting the mandatory engineering qualification requirements.

Job description

Are you ready to be part of a diverse team that collaborates to deliver outstanding customer experiences? Tesco Property Maintenance are looking for hardworking and efficient Maintenance Technicians to join our growing Property Maintenance Team! At Tesco, our stores, distribution centres and offices couldn�t function without the support of our integral teams.

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

  • 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.
  • Asset Maintenance:�Completing proactive and reactive maintenance to ensure the automation system availability is sustainable for operational throughput.

Responsibilities will include;

    • 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 yourself and those around.
    • Building effective relationships with colleagues and stakeholders from all departments, ensuring strong bonds with operational colleagues and supporting them where possible.
    • Monitoring performance of site to ensure that everything is always operating effectively. You understand terms such as availability and performance, and utilising various means to measure these.
    • Being proactive and dynamic with timekeeping, ensuring that you give the best value to the customer within working time. You actively look for ways to be supportive and continuously Improve as a business.
    • Create documentation for learnings for major breakdowns/outages, using root cause analysis methods and best practice approaches.
    • Support In ensuring sites maintenance budget Is adhered to, through working with a 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.
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Tesco

Electrical Engineer - Automation

Daventry, Northamptonshire
On-site, Hybrid, Remote

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.

You will need:

    • A recognised qualification in Engineering.
    • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
    • Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
    • A detail-oriented mindset with a focus on quality and efficiency.
    • Ability to work on your own or as part of a wider team

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 team work to introduce a broad spectrum of award-winning new technological initiatives; from compliance testing to refrigeration, security to sustainability.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. 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. If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

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