Night Shift Maintenance Lead Technician - Manchester

 

Job reference number 310598

Night Shift Maintenance Lead Technician - Manchester
Salary £55,919 + additions, Annual bonus potential, Company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates, Generous annual leave offering of 25 days, plus bank holidays, increasing with years service  
 Permanent, Full time 

Manchester Mail Centre

At Royal Mail we’ve served our communities for over 500 years, helping to lead and transform the postal delivery market on a global scale. Our journey to improve never stops, and that’s where we need you.

We’re currently innovating and transforming our business for the future, adapting towards a parcel delivery market, as well as taking environmental responsibility for our impact as a business. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people.

Are you a proactive, focused individual with a background in engineering? Have you got strong skills in electrical automation and hold a relevant engineering qualification? If so, we would love to hear from you. We are looking for an Automation Team Coach to join our Manchester Mail centre. Interested? More details and how to apply can be found below.

About the Role

The Engineering Team Coach has no direct line management and reports directly into the Operational Shift Manager. You will assist in ensuring that all relevant Health & Safety Policy and Guidelines are adhered to by Maintenance Teams whilst under their leadership. 

On a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible for providing proactive technical leadership, guidance and support for all engineering automation issues within the Mail Centre.

You will ensure engineering maintenance is completed to defined standards and is delivered by a competent engineering workforce in a cost-effective manner.

You will also

•    Lead and co-ordinate the implementation of maintenance techniques to ensure that the asset performance and availability design criteria is achieved at all times
•    Provide and deliver technical training, coaching and development to the engineering maintenance team 

•    Assist in the risk assessment process relating to automation equipment and Engineering Safe Systems of Work. Deliver modifications and ensure that the configuration status of hardware/software and mechanical set up is up to date and technically managed
•    Develop the engineering team on a day-to-day basis, proving support, and advice, conducting annual Individual Performance Reviews and regular development meetings to ensure the highest
technical standards are met

•    Offer technical direction in-keeping with Business Values and standards, explaining as necessary
•    Challenge unacceptable behaviour, bullying and harassment, within the mail centre engineering community

About You

To truly excel in this role, you will possess, and be able to evidence, the skills and experience listed below:

•    Extensive background in automation engineering and maintenance  
•    Hold an Engineering qualification 

•    Comfortable providing technical leadership, guidance, and support to a large team
•    Able to offer technical direction to senior stakeholders in the wider business
•    Willing to complete an ILM coaching course when in the role

Extra Benefits

•    RMG Share Schemes - partnership and matching share offer
•    Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
•    Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
•    Supportive and generous company sick pay
•    Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone.
•    Lifestyle benefits - You can purchase a car, bike, home technology or mobile phone, or choose from a range of health benefits and insurance products. You make regular payments from your salary, and so could save on tax*.  
•    Financial support - information and services to help you manage debt and grow your financial knowledge, with debt consolidation & savings plans*
•    Your peace of mind with - Healthcare CashPlan, Dental Cover, Additional Life (life insurance) & Additional Life Partner, Hospital & Death Benefit Plans; Voluntary Critical illness & Voluntary Critical illness Partner
•    Free & discounted RMG products - free keep safe & redirection, partner discounts 
•    Free stamps at Christmas
*Available only to perm employees

Your career in safe hands

At Royal Mail we value our people and we want our people to be proud to work for our businesses. 

We have the assets, the infrastructure and the scale that others don’t, yet we are a big part of the communities we operate in, making billions of precious deliveries each year. We are responsible for the largest B2B customer database in the UK and are one of the largest employers in the UK, providing one in every 194 jobs.

An operation of this size needs a strong support network, and the HR, Legal, Finance, IT, Risk & Governance, Customer Experience, Sales & Marketing departments are all integral to helping us to utilise the latest technology and business approaches to optimise, automate and digitise our operations. 

Royal Mail is a forward thinking, innovative organisation, that is also committed to reducing emissions and improving air quality in our communities. This includes investing in technologies such as electric vehicles, drones, alternative fuel trucks and energy improvements to our estate. 

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.

Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people. 
 

We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.

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. 

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

Closing Date: 5th May. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

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