Tesco UK • West Brom • Permanent • Apply by 14-Apr-2026
An exciting new role within our Property Function! We are seeking a skilled and motivated Automation Technician to join our team. In this role, you will prioritise maintaining and repairing brand-new equipment, applying your technical expertise to ensure outstanding performance and continuous improvement principles. A passion for customer service is essential, as you will understand the impact of your decisions and the efficiency of your maintenance work and will operate within your training and experience, ensuring a safe environment for all.
You will maintain and repair cutting‑edge equipment in your nominated Urban Fulfilment Centre (UFC), utilising your experience and technical knowledge. You will ensure that equipment runs in its optimum state through regular formal and informal inspections, completing maintenance tasks in accordance with good engineering practice, and striving to improve the equipment where possible.
Benefits
* Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary
* Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
* 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 year's service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
* Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental well‑being
Responsibilities
* Completing maintenance to an excellent standard, whilst ensuring any items that need rectifying are either immediately repaired or logged and scheduled for revisiting.
* Operate with safety in mind at all times, dynamically risk‑assessing all jobs to ensure the safety of myself and those around me.
* Build effective relationships with colleagues and stakeholders from all departments, ensuring strong bonds with operational colleagues and supporting them where possible.
* Supervising performance of the site to ensure that we're always operating efficiently. Understand terms such as availability and performance, and utilise various means to measure these.
* Being proactive and dynamic with timekeeping, ensuring that I give the best value to the customer within my working time. Actively look for ways to be encouraging and continuously improve as a business.
* Document findings for major breakdowns/outages, using root‑cause analysis methods and proven approaches.
* Support in ensuring the site maintenance budget is adhered to, through a no‑waste approach and repairing/testing replaced equipment for future use where possible.
* Administrative maintenance, ensuring the CMMS is up to date and truly reflective of the maintenance position on site and completing other tasks such as shift reports to a high standard.
* Support in maintaining the budget for the site by ensuring that spares/hours are accurately used and tracked.
Qualifications
* Experience working hands‑on within an engineering/maintenance department on highly automated equipment
* Electrical/mechanical cross‑skill training
* Excellent problem‑solving and root‑cause analysis
* Communication and stakeholder management
* Analysis and presentation of data to achieve timely decisions
* Influencing skills
* Setting and maintaining the highest of standards
We are an accredited Disability Confident Leader and committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, we will provide it.
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