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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