Maintenance Shift Lead

Job reference 340465

Maintenance Shift Lead
Salary:£58,022 subject to experience, plus additional shift allowance and Sunday premium payments.
Potential earnings package exceeding £67,000 per annum, plus up to 10% annual bonus and excellent benefits.
Fixed Term, 12 month duration
Full time
Midlands Super Hub, Dirft Drive, Crick, Northampton, NN6 7GZ

Royal Mail Engineering is seeking an experienced Engineering Maintenance Shift Manager to lead a high-performing team at our state-of-the-art Midlands Super Hub.

This is an exciting opportunity for a proven maintenance leader with experience in automation, robotics, PLC-controlled systems, mechanical and electrical engineering, reliability engineering and continuous improvement. You'll play a key role in maintaining the performance, safety and reliability of critical automated equipment that supports one of the UK's largest logistics and distribution operations.

If you are currently employed on a fixed-term contract and are successfully appointed to this role, you will be offered a further fixed-term contract of employment.

Working within a fast-paced operational environment, you'll lead engineering teams, drive maintenance performance, improve asset reliability and deliver a world-class maintenance strategy across advanced automation and material handling systems.

• Lead and promote a safety culture to include hazard identifications, risk assessments, incident investigations, and implement corrective and preventive actions. Ensure complete compliance with all safety regulations across automation assets
• Develop and execute shift maintenance strategies to meet production targets and reliability goals
• Supervise, coach, and evaluate maintenance technicians and the SME to enable a high-performance culture
• The line management of maintenance teams, manage performance, attendance and leave, address employee relations matters, and ensure full compliance with HR policies and procedures
• Drive maintenance performance through effective planning and delivery of preventative, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities
• Manage shift budgets, track expenses, and implement cost-control measures for labour, materials, and external services
• Lead root-cause analyses of equipment failures, implement corrective actions, and monitor effectiveness
• Coordinate with Production, Engineering, and Procurement to schedule shutdowns, capital projects, and resource allocation

You need to demonstrate the following skills and experience on your CV:

• A qualified engineer, minimum NVQ level 4 in Electrical and Mechanical / Lead Engineering Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship - essential requirement
• Experience of leading, coaching and developing a team of engineers to improve performance - essential requirement
• Extensive experience in industrial engineering maintenance, including several years in a supervisory or lead role
• Hands-on expertise with PLCs, hydraulics/pneumatics, electrical and mechanical automation systems and multi-shift operations
• Strategic leadership, project and change management
• Advanced fault-finding and root-cause analysis (5-Whys, Fishbone, DMAIC) and leading continuous-improvement programmes (Lean, Six Sigma, TPM)
• Stakeholder communication and team development across shifts
• Data analysis, KPI monitoring and maintenance performance reporting
• HNC/HND in Mechanical, Electrical or Engineering Maintenance
• NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety (or higher)
• IOSH Managing Safely or working towards
• ILM/CMI Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management

Full time, equivalent to 41 hours per week.

• 12-hour shifts
• 07:00-19:00 Days
• 9:00-07:00 Nights
• 4-week rotating shift pattern
• Includes 2 weekends per month

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