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 you

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

Shift Pattern

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

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

About Us

At Royal Mail we connect companies, customers and communities across the country, delivering a 'one-price-goes-anywhere', universal postal service to more than 30 million addresses. As one of the UK's leading companies, we are focused on being recognised as the best delivery company in the UK and across Europe.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.

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