Engineering Team Leader

Posted Tuesday 17 February 2026 at 01:00

We're the feel-good fashion brand making style accessible and fun for over 55 years, on our website, mobile app and over 300 stores in the UK.

By living our values - we play to win, customer obsessed, we are one and it startswith me - we deliver That New Look Feeling for our customers and each other.

Our New Look Distribution Centre is seeking an experienced Engineering Team Leader to oversee a broad range of automated equipment, ensuring effective maintenance, servicing, and operational performance. You will lead a co ordinated team of Multi Skilled Engineers to deliver departmental and business objectives, driving continuous improvement and fostering a collaborative, high performance culture.

Being part of the New Look Team means you get access to a great range of benefits & perks

• You'll love our generous staff discount - 40% off for you and a loved one, and 25% off for up to 12 friends and family members!
• Get special access to hundreds of discounts from top retailers and gyms, along with free workout classes, on our rewards platform Runway.
• Plan for you retirement while you work with our contributory private pension scheme.
• Our family-friendly policies include enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, and shared parental leave.
• Benefit from free Virtual GP access for you and your children - it allows you to speak to a doctor at a time and date that suits you.
• Big trip on the cards? Unlock extra leave with our buy more holiday scheme.
• Do your bit for the environment and save money with our Cycle2Work scheme.
• Driving in? There's free secure on-site parking available for your convenience.
• Grab a bite at our on site subsidised canteen.
• Provide strong leadership, motivation, and direction to a team of multi skilled maintenance engineers.
• Develop and implement a robust Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) programme aligned with manufacturers' recommendations and statutory legislation, including all relevant risk assessments and compliance requirements relating to people, plant, equipment, property, environment, and health & safety.
• Optimise the use of available resources to support routine and reactive maintenance activities.
• Champion continuous improvement, introducing initiatives that enhance engineering performance and operational efficiency.
• Promote and uphold a positive health and safety culture, ensuring standard activities are assessed and appropriate engineering safe systems of work (ESSOWs) are in place.
• Ensure an effective and responsive fault resolution service that meets business needs at all times.
• Oversee and manage external contractors, ensuring specialist equipment with service agreements is appropriately supported.
• Support the forecasting and control of annual budget expenditure within your area of responsibility.
• Maintain accurate and up to date drawings, technical documentation, and maintenance records for all equipment.
• Ensure all reporting, recording, and administrative requirements are completed to a high standard.
• Safeguard the availability of business critical equipment to minimise disruption and maintain operational continuity.
• Manage a diverse range of electrical, control, pneumatic, hydraulic, and mechanical systems subject to varied and unpredictable breakdowns.
• Ensure manufacturer maintenance procedures are fully adhered to in line with warranty conditions.
• Take responsibility for ordering materials and spare parts in accordance with allocated budgets and designated responsibilities.
• Maintain appropriate staffing levels across the engineering team to ensure continuous support for business operations.
• Monitor and align manning levels with internal and external equipment maintenance requirements

• Full Engineering Apprenticeship.
• HNC/HND Electrical/Electronic/Mechanical Engineering.
• Substantial Technical Electrical and Mechanical fitting skills and experience.
• Minimum 3 years supervisory experience within an engineering environment.
• PC and various software package skills.
• PLC experience.
• Leadership and management skills within a team environment.
• Good organisational and basic presentation skills.

We care about you and the planet and believe fashion should be a force for positive change . We celebrate inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We're proud of our inclusive culture and our talented team members who embrace our shared purpose, behaviours and values.

We prioritise development, offering training to support your progression, so you can be your absolute best and achieve your goals.

We pride ourselves on being a flexible employer, our colleagues work a range of patterns. If you have a specific pattern in mind, we're keen to discuss this with you in line with the output needed for the role.

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