Posted: 17/03/2026
Job Ref: 30220
Automation Engineer - Croydon
Job Description
Automation Maintenance EngineerLocation: Croydon
Salary: £53,195 per annum (plus additional shift allowance)
Hours: shift attendance equates to 40 hours per week - Full time – Working on a rotational shift basis.
Ref: 30220
We’re recruiting an experienced Automation Maintenance Engineer on behalf of a major UK organisation operating a high volume processing environment in Croydon. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a nationally recognised operation where automation is at the heart of daily performance.
In this role, you’ll be supporting a large, fast paced site that relies on complex automated machinery to keep operations running efficiently. You’ll play a key part in maintaining, improving, and optimising essential equipment, ensuring reliability during some of the busiest periods of the year.
This position offers long term stability, strong development opportunities, and the chance to work with advanced automation systems used across major UK distribution and mail handling centres.
Company Benefits
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Ongoing training and development opportunities
• Competitive starting salary or basic salary
• Pension scheme
Automation Maintenance Engineer Role
• Perform maintenance tasks, including preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance
• Carry out continuous improvement activities
• Provide effective and efficient support to the Engineering Manager, Maintenance Team Leader and Engineering Team Coaches, including completion of end of shift reports, fault logging and data entry
• Identify the root cause of automation breakdowns and prioritise corrective actions to meet operational processing requirements
• Monitor equipment performance and improve automation outputs in collaboration with operational stakeholders
• Identify and implement continuous improvement projects, taking ownership from conception to deployment for machinery in the Hub/Mail Centre.
• Ability to work on your own initiative and as part of a team to achieve common goals
About You
• The ideal candidate must have first-hand experience of maintaining automation equipment, including but not limited to – conveyor systems, infrastructure systems and sorting machines.
• The machines you will be working on are: Compact sequence Sorters, Culler-Facer-Canceller machines, Letter/ parcel sorting machines
• You will be required to work as part of a team and have a good understanding of Health & Safety legislation.
Automation Maintenance Engineer Requirements
• You must be fully qualified in electrical and mechanical engineering (minimum ONC Electrical Engineering – or equivalent)
• A full UK driver’s licence
How to Apply
If you are interested in applying for this Automation Maintenance Engineer vacancy, please send your CV and we will contact you upon receipt.
All applications will be treated with the utmost confidentiality.
Consultant: Robert Samuels - Octane Recruitment
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Octane Recruitment is a specialist Automotive and Motor Trade recruitment agency, working with main dealerships, bodyshops, tyre management companies, parts distribution centres, independent garages, fleet operators, HGV companies, import centres and manufacturers across the UK. We recruit across the motor trade and related industries.