Job reference 321178
Night Shift Maintenance Lead Technician
From £55,919, generous annual leave offering of 22.5 days, plus bank holidays
Permanent, Full time
Northern Ireland Mail Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Royal Mail as a Maintenance Lead Technician.
About the role
The role is based at our Northern Ireland Mail Centre in Newtownabbey. Throughout the role, you'll ensure that all relevant Health & Safety (H&S) Policy and guidelines are adhered to by maintenance teams whilst under your leadership.
On a day-to-day basis, you'll be responsible for providing proactive technical leadership, guidance, and support for all engineering automation issues within the Mail Centre catchment area. You'll ensure engineering maintenance is completed to defined standards and is delivered by a competent engineering workforce in a cost-effective manner. You'll possess the ability to lead and co-ordinate the implementation of maintenance techniques to ensure that asset performance and reliability are achieved. In doing so, you'll provide the Shift Manager with technical assistance and guidance on maintenance standards. You'll provide and deliver technical training, coaching, and development to the engineering maintenance team.
About You
To truly excel in this role, you will possess, and be able to provide evidence of, the skills and experience listed below:
1. Extensive background in automation engineering and maintenance
2. Hold an Engineering qualification
3. Comfortable providing technical leadership, guidance, and support to a large team
4. Able to offer technical direction to senior stakeholders in the wider business
5. Willing to complete an ILM coaching course when in the role
6. Must hold a full UK Driving License
Desirable Criteria
1. Time served Engineering apprenticeship
2. Engineering qualification to HNC level or equivalent
Benefits
* 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.
*Available only to permanent employees
Next Steps
The next stage of the selection process will be a face-to-face interview consisting of competency-based, role-specific questions and a presentation exercise.
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 is 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.
Closing Date: 4th February. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
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