Maintenance Technician

About the role
As a Maintenance Technician at Tesco across Southampton, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring our stores remains a safe, functional, and welcoming environment for customers and colleagues alike. You’ll be part of a skilled team responsible for carrying out planned and reactive maintenance across a range of systems and equipment, helping to keep our operations running smoothly.

Your work will directly impact the shopping experience of thousands of customers every day. You’ll use your technical expertise to identify and resolve issues efficiently, always prioritising safety, compliance, and quality.

This is a hands‑on role that requires a proactive mindset, strong problem‑solving skills, and a commitment to delivering high standards. In return, you’ll be supported with ongoing training, opportunities to grow your career, and the chance to be part of one of the UK’s most recognised and respected retail brands.

The Hiring Manager for this vacancy is Daniel Nicoll.

You will be responsible for
As a Maintenance Technician your specific responsibilities will encompass a wide range of tasks. To thrive in this role, you will need to:

Confidently Interact with External Contractors: Coordinating repairs seamlessly.

Work Collaboratively with the Team: Be a great colleague who understands the importance of quality service.

Sustain High Energy Levels: Juggling tasks while maintaining efficiency.

Assist the Management Team: Keeping our stores operating smoothly by maintaining equipment and facilities.

Minimize Customer Disruption: Coordinating repairs with minimal impact on our valued customers.

Responsibilities will include;

Ensuring all Tesco sites are a safe and functioning environment for customers and colleagues.

Following the planned work schedule to achieve first time fix, improving efficiency, and effectiveness.

Working closely with team members, sharing best practice and knowledge.

General day to day store and property maintenance.

Using mobile devices; phone and tablet, to drive the best approach in work completion and updates.

Representing the Tesco brand by demonstrating our core values (serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day), maintaining a positive attitude & taking pride in wearing the Tesco uniform.

Attending local and national meetings, providing valuable input and feedback.

Supporting a diverse and inclusive culture.

You will need
As a vital part of our Maintenance team, you will demonstrate enthusiasm for maintaining high standards. With previous experience in a maintenance, engineering, or construction environment, you will be digitally confident using a tablet to view daily work schedules and manage emails.

Operational Skills:

ONC or equivalent

Full driving license

Health & Safety awareness

Communication & Collaboration

Office 365 knowledge

Completed all technical training upskilling modules relevant to abilities.

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 10% of base salary

Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)

26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 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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