In this role, you will balance exceptional customer delivery with business needs, working collaboratively with colleagues and teams to achieve the best outcomes. You'll focus on what matters most to customers while contributing to business success through strong engagement, teamwork, and accountability.
As part of the Maintenance team, you will help ensure that our Distribution Centre and RSU sites remain safe, compliant, and fully operational for both customers and colleagues. Working to planned maintenance schedules, you will strive to achieve first-time fixes, improving efficiency and effectiveness while minimising disruption to operations.
You will work closely with team members, sharing knowledge and best practice to support continuous improvement, while undertaking a variety of day-to-day maintenance activities. Using mobile technology, including phones and tablets, you will effectively manage work completion, provide timely updates, and ensure accurate record keeping.
As an ambassador for the Tesco brand, you will demonstrate our core value of serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day. You will take pride in maintaining high standards, representing Tesco professionally, and contributing to a diverse, inclusive, and supportive working environment.
What is in it for youWe offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work. These include but aren’t limited to:
- Holiday starting at 20 days plus a personal day rising to 22 days after 12 months (plus Bank holidays)
- Request flexible working from day one
- Get 10% off and 15% at pay day weekends - save up to £2,000 a year with your Colleague Clubcard with an additional card to share with family outside your home
- Access to free wellbeing services with a range of resources to support your mind, body, and life
- Life cover of five times your pay and an award-winning pension with matching contributions up to 7.5%
- Benefits to suit you, choose what you use - from discounts and shares to cycle to work schemes
- Uniform provided and policies to support you for all of life’s moments, big and small
- Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here.
- Click here to read more about the benefits we have available for our colleagues
Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence whilst holding accountability for these key responsibilities:
- Ensuring a safe environment and challenging all observed unsafe actions by colleagues or contractors.
- To restore, improve & maintain plant & equipment in order to achieve optimum performance, while working safely at all times.
- Building effective relationships with the leadership teams, communicating clearly on tasks and managing expectations where necessary.
- Where problems occur within a scheduled task, use own initiative to rectify the situation.
- When completing any tasks, report any required follow up work via the CMMS at the same time as notifying the Engineering Manager
- Driven by a culture of ‘continuous improvement’, through the use of problem solving tools and participation in WCM AM/PM/5S projects.
- Lead improvement projects and machine modifications when nominated.
- Actively work towards the continued development of the stock control system for maintenance spares.
- Responsible for the completion of daily and weekly tasks in a timely manner, adopting an analytical approach to problem solving using tools, to identify the root cause of failures, proposing appropriate corrective/sustaining actions
- Using the systems available to accurately record work completed and describing work which needs to be escalated.
- Working closely with internal service teams and external contractors.
- Meeting the necessary legal and compliance standards.
- Attending meetings to ensure there is an understanding of maintenance issues and their level of urgency.
Key people and teams I work with in and outside of Tesco:
- Automation / Maintenance teams
- Operational colleagues
- Parts suppliers
- Third party contractors
- Health and Safety teams
People, budgets and other resources I am accountable for in my job:
- Being aware of the cost implications and ensuring the most effective and efficient fix.
Operational skills relevant for this job:
- Communication and stakeholder management
- Setting and maintaining of the highest of standards
Experience relevant for this job:
- Maintenance and/or engineering experience
- Exposure to CMMS services e.g. Verisae, SAP, Maximo
- Completed an Maintenance/Engineering Apprenticeship.
- Qualified to NVQ level 3 or equivalent
- Experience in working in automated environment.
You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.
At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.
We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.
At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.
We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.

