Automation Maintenance Engineer

Croydon, CR9 4AA April 6, 2026 Full Time Royal Mail Group Custom Recruitment Portal (Jobs.royalmailgroup.com)
Royal Mail
Are you a skilled multi-disciplinary engineer looking for a role that challenges and rewards? We’re seeking a Automation Maintenance Engineer, at our Croydon site, to ensure the smooth running of our cutting-edge automation systems.
Royal Mail is engaged in one of the biggest technological changes in our history, transitioning to a predominantly mechanised parcel sortation process. To facilitate this change, a huge organisation wide investment in new parcel processing technology is in progress, with the necessary associated investment in engineering and maintenance. Will you join us as an automation engineer to keep the nations deliveries moving? Contract: Permanent Salary: £53,195 per annum (plus additonal shift allowance) Hours: Shift attendance equates to 40 hours per week
- Full time – Working on a rotational shift basis.

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  • The corporate parent is International Distributions Services plc (IDS), which until 2022 was Royal Mail plc. The £3.6 billion EP Group acquisition led by Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský completed in 2025 with binding undertakings protecting the Universal Service Obligation, the brand, the UK headquarters, and the workforce.
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