Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer

If you're a Maintenance Engineer who thrives in technically advanced environments, this is a rare chance to work on some of the UK's most sophisticated automation systems.

£55,692 (inclusive of shift allowance) | Permanent | Peterborough
12-hour rotating shifts (days and nights, including weekends)

Overtime opportunities on top of base package

Structured technical development and training

Exposure to advanced automation and robotics systems

Motiontech designs, installs, and maintains intelligent automation and material handling systems for major UK retail and logistics businesses. Their engineering teams keep high-availability, high-performance automated distribution operations running around the clock. It's hands-on, technically demanding work, and the investment in people matches the investment in kit.

You'll join an established maintenance team on-site in Peterborough, keeping cutting-edge automated material handling systems running at peak performance. Day to day, you'll split your time between planned preventative work and reactive fault-finding — with the tools, systems, and team around you to do both properly.

You'll:

Deliver planned preventative maintenance across automated material handling systems

Respond to breakdowns quickly, diagnosing and resolving faults to minimise downtime

Fault-find on electrical, mechanical, and PLC-controlled equipment

Maintain conveyors, motors, gearboxes, pneumatics, and automated handling systems

Use the CMMS to log maintenance activity and track performance data

What you'll bring

Essential:

NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in Electrical, Mechanical, or Multi-Skilled Engineering

Proven maintenance experience in logistics, automation, FMCG, or manufacturing

Strong fault-finding skills across electrical, mechanical, and PLC-controlled systems

Hands-on experience with conveyors, drives, gearboxes, and pneumatics

Comfortable working 12-hour rotating shifts including nights and weekends

Useful, not essential:

Experience with CMMS platforms

Previous work in a high-speed automated logistics environment

Exposure to robotics or advanced sortation systems

Benefits & culture

Financial: £55,692 including shift allowance, plus overtime
Development: Structured technical training with access to advanced automation systems Stability: Permanent role with a well-established automation business
Environment: High-spec, technically varied site — no two shifts are the same

Working arrangements

Location: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire | On-site Contract: Permanent | Full-time Shifts: 12-hour rotating days and nights, including weekends

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