Maintenance Automation Engineer
Job Description
Would you like to lead and direct daily maintenance operations, setting priorities and coordinating the work of Maintenance Technicians to ensure safe, efficient execution and rapid response to equipment issues?
Job Description
Own equipment performance and reliability for the assigned area, including uptime,
downtime, and overall system effectiveness, driving actions to maintain optimal operating conditions.
Develop, coach, and lead a team of Maintenance Technicians (Levels I–III), ensuring skill progression, accountability, and alignment with the site maintenance skills matrix.
Coordinate and direct the diagnosis and repair of complex equipment failures, serving as the point of contact for blocking issues and ensuring effective resolution of high-impact issues.
Drive root cause analysis (RCA) and implement sustainable corrective actions to reduce recurring failures and improve long-term equipment reliability.
Coordinate maintenance activities with operations, engineering, and other cross-functional teams, aligning priorities, planned downtime, and improvement initiatives.
Ensure execution of preventive and predictive maintenance programs, maintaining
compliance with standards and continuously improving maintenance strategies.
Play your part in our team succeeding
The Maintenance team plays a critical role in ensuring the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of our manufacturing and packaging systems. In a highly automated environment, the team is responsible for maintaining equipment performance, minimizing downtime, and supporting consistent product quality. As part of a greenfield site, the team is also instrumental in building strong foundations for maintenance standards, processes, and team capability.
As a Maintenance Leader, you will be a key driver of this success leading daily operations, developing technician capability, and ensuring equipment reliability from day one. Your leadership will directly impact on how quickly the site stabilizes, how effectively the team performs, and how well the operation scales for future growth.
What makes this role special is the opportunity to build something from the ground up—creating strong systems, developing talent, and setting the standard for how we operate.
Do you have what it takes?
To succeed in this role, you bring strong technical and leadership experience within a
maintenance or automation environment, along with a proven ability to lead teams and deliver results in fast-paced operations.
Extensive experience in maintenance in a manufacturing, distribution, or automated environment.
Working experience leading maintenance teams or coordinating shift operations.
Strong technical knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic systems.
Proven ability to troubleshoot and guide resolution of complex equipment issues.
Experience working with automated systems such as conveyors, packaging equipment, or robotics.
Familiarity with CMMS systems and structured maintenance processes.
Demonstrated commitment to safety, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
Preferred:
Technical degree or equivalent experience, certification, apprenticeship, or equivalent hands-on background in maintenance, automation, or a related field.
Experience supporting startup, commissioning, or greenfield operations.
Exposure to PLC systems (e.g., Allen Bradley, Siemens).
Significant experience in consumer-packaged goods, including demonstrable
experience with digital content marketing.
Strong technical expertise across mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic systems, with the ability to guide troubleshooting of complex equipment issues.
Experience with automated systems, such as conveyors, packaging equipment, robotics, or material handling systems.
Additional
Ability to travel globally.
Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
Join the global LEGO® team
Compensation
The salary for this position has a range of $84,674.00 - $127,010.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
What’s in it for you?
Here are some of what to expect:
Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
Wellbeing – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based
Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme
Your workplace – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.
We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.
The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.
We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”
The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.
Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.
We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.
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