Maintenance Shift Lead

Job reference number 342502

Maintenance Shift Lead 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. Full time

Permanent

Midlands Super Hub 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.

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.

What You'll Be Doing 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

About youYou 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 reportingHNC/HND in Mechanical, Electrical or Engineering MaintenanceNEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety (or higher)
IOSH Managing Safely or working towardsILM/CMI Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management Shift Pattern Full time, equivalent to 41 hours per week.
12-hour shifts
07:00-19:00 Days9:00-07:00 Nights4-week rotating shift pattern

Includes 2 weekends per month

Closing Date:
This advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

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