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Tesco • Lakeside, UK

Maintenance Engineer - Automation

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Job Description

An exciting new role within our Property Function! We are seeking a skilled and motivated Automation Technician to join our team in Lakeside. 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.

The Hiring Manager for this role is Jefferson Stubbs.

  • 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 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
  • Support in the maintenance of the budget for my site by ensuring that spares/hours are accurately used and tracked.

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  • 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
  • Influencing skills
  • Setting and maintaining of the highest of standards

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we�re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone�s welcome. That�s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application,�click here for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.

Company benefits

25 days annual leave + bank holidays
Additional voluntary pension contribution
Adoption leave – 26 weeks full pay (after 52 weeks service)
Annual bonus
Annual pay rises
Bike parking
Buy or sell annual leave
Car allowance
Charity donation scheme
Chill out zone
Cinema discounts
Coffee discounts
Collaboration spaces
Company car
Company freebies
Compassionate leave
Critical Illness Insurance
Cycle to work scheme
Death in service
Dental coverage
Discretionary sick pay
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Emergency leave
Employee assistance programme
Employee discounts – 10% off and 15% on pay day weekends
Employee phone programme
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks full pay (after 52 weeks service)
Enhanced paternity leave – 6 weeks full pay (after 52 weeks service)
Enhanced pension match/contribution – up to 7.5% matching
Equity packages
Ergonomic workstations
Eye Care Support
Faith rooms
Family health insurance
Fertility treatment leave
Financial advice
Fully stocked snack cupboard
Gym membership
Health assessment
Health insurance
In house training
L&D budget
Learning platform
Legal consults
Life assurance – Five times your pay
Life insurance
LinkedIn learning license
Lunch and learns
Meditation space
Menopause support
Mental health first aiders
Mental health platform access
Mentoring
Modern office
On-site barista
On-site catering
On-site gym
On-site personal trainer
On-site shower
On-site wellness room
On-site wellness services
On-site workout classes
Open to job sharing
Open to part time work for some roles
Open to part-time employees
Optional unpaid leave
Paid fostering leave
Personal development budgets
Personal development days
Pregnancy loss leave
Private booths
Referral bonus
Religious celebration leave
Relocation packages
Restaurant discounts
Sabbaticals
Salary advance
Salary sacrifice
Secure on-site parking
Sensory-Friendly Setup
Share options
Skilled worker visas
Sports teams
Study support
Teambuilding days
Theme park discounts
Time off in-lieu
Tree planting
Volunteer days
Wellbeing incentive programme
Open to compressed hours

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Company employees:

330,000+

Gender diversity (m:f):

49:51

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