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Site Engineering Manager - Automation

Job details
Posting date: 11 October 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: Competitive
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 24 October 2024
Location: None, None, NN67GY
Company: Tesco
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: tesco/TP/10781852/914607

Summary

About the role

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

Responsible for managing all aspects of engineering within a fully automated frozen distribution centre, alongside 2 other automated sites adjacent. Within this role you will deliver, maintain and collaborate at the highest standards for others to follow whilst ensuring relationships with all stakeholders are well managed.

You will be responsible for

Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence whilst holding accountability for these key responsibilities:

  • Management of Tesco\'s most strategically important fully automated distribution centres, alongside 2 further sites supplying the entirety of the networks clothing and tobacco ranges.
  • Leading a large team of multi-skilled engineering technicians. and support staff
  • Effective maintenance planning, monitoring workloads, ensuring the team have the right capacity, capability, and coverage to support effective site maintenance Utilising Internal teams to Identify and remove bottlenecks and improve efficiencies wherever required.
  • Setting and maintaining the highest engineering standards and ensuring statutory compliance
  • Ensuring there is a safe environment for those who work and visit our distribution centre and offices.
  • Building effective relationships and communicating clearly with my stakeholders.
  • Contribute to setting strategy and direction long term as part of wider automation engineering management team.
  • Work with our vendors and contractors ensuring we cover all engineering and maintenance requirements both planned and compliance, to the highest of standards and within planned timescales to budget. Delivering engineering automation maintenance to ensure minimum equipment downtime whilst maintaining effective parts pipeline and critical spares availability.
  • Working closely with my senior Automation peers to identify where investment is required, then plan and implement effectively.
  • Proactively work to ensure I continually develop my own professional engineering skills as well as those of my team ensuring we\'re fit to manage and maintain to the highest level.
  • Managing my budgets effectively and to target, always being cost conscious.

You will need

  • Automation and engineering experience at an operational management level.
  • Demonstrated operational success in people leadership and development.
  • Strong stakeholder management and budget control experience
  • Engineering degree or equivalent and extensive experience in leading large multi-skilled highly qualified engineering teams across a multi disciplined campus of sites.
  • Proactively contributed to strategic planning.
  • Excellent leadership skills, ability to delivery through a diverse and remote team to the highest standards
  • Communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills
  • Building internal and external networks
  • Analysis and presentation of data to achieve timely decisions
  • Setting and maintaining of the highest of standards
  • Commercial and business acumen
  • Computer literacy – EAM, Office 365
  • An awareness of Change Management and version control process
  • Problem solving and root cause analysis

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!

  • Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
  • Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
  • Private medical insurance
  • 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 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 wellbeing

About us

Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.

It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.

We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.

But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.

We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers

Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.

For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com

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