Shift Maintenance Team Leader

Shift Maintenance Team Leader (Late Shift)

**Salary**: £55,919 plus company pension scheme, with highly competitive contribution rates, generous annual leave offering of 22.5 days, plus bank holidays
Permanent, 40 hours per week
North West Super Hub

Royal Mail is engaged in one of the biggest technological changes in its history, transitioning to a predominantly mechanised parcel sortation process. It’s a very exciting time to join us To facilitate this change, a huge organisation wide investment in new parcel processing technology is in progress, with the necessary associated investment in engineering. You’ll have a unique opportunity to be a part of this exciting programme, creating a delivery service provider for the future and able to meet customer demand in the emerging “e-commerce” society.

To support our transformation, we are looking for a **Shift Maintenance Team Leader**to join the team at the North West Super Hub in Warrington. If you have a background in engineering with strong skills in electrical automation and hold a relevant engineering qualification, we would love to hear from you.

**About the Role**

The Maintenance Team Leader 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

**Attendance pattern** - 14:00 to 22:00 Monday to Friday. A degree of flexibility is required to meet operational demands.

**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**
- **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