Engineering Trade Specialist

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Full time
Location: Milton Keynes
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Job offered by: John Lewis
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About the role

At a glance This role is based across our Magna Park and Fenny Lock National Distribution Centres.

The salary range for this role is set at £29,000 - £41,500.

Please note this role is for 42.5 hours per week. The working pattern is 08:00 - 16:00.

This is a permanent position.

About the role

The John Lewis Partnerships National Distribution Centres plays a crucial role in delivering 24/7 e-commerce fulfilment, which accounts for approximately 75% of our business. This vital function relies on the prompt and effective delivery of projects, services, parts, and materials, keeping our facilities safe, compliant, and reliably maintained.

Join our Engineering Team as a Trade Specialist, where your expertise in building trades will have an integral part in maintaining and enhancing our site infrastructure. As a valued team member, you'll leverage your certified trade background to deliver a range of in-house services, including planned, reactive, remedial, and project-based tasks.

Your skills will contribute directly to the maintenance and improvement of our dynamic building environments - both automated and manual. By handling building fabric maintenance and executing value-added modifications, you will support the growth and development of our engineering network.

What you'll be doing

As a Trade Specialist, you will collaborate closely with Engineering Technicians, providing essential support and demonstrating an in-depth understanding of facility systems and equipment to ensure continuous, efficient operation. You will support projects related to building fabric, fixtures and equipment with a significant focus on projects including painting and decorating across the sites.

Essential skills you'll need Painting and decorating experience

Understanding of Health & Safety legislation in a commercial and industrial environment

About The Partnership

We're the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We're not just employees, we're Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there's never been a more exciting time to join us.

We're ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we're free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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