Deployment Engineer

Overview

As Deployment Engineer, you will support the rollout of automation assets across Royal Mail sites, coordinating installation, commissioning, and testing to ensure safe, on-time delivery. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to align designs with program plans and produce site surveys and CAD layouts. The role emphasizes safety, CDM compliance, and hands-on problem solving during early-life support to meet performance targets. This is a chance to shape automated operations within the UK postal network and contribute to ongoing transformation.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days annual leave
• bank holidays
• company pension scheme
• bonus (10% annual, subject to eligibility)
• full-time role
• opportunity to work on automation deployment across multiple sites

Responsibilities

• Support deployment and integration of automation technologies across multiple sites
• Coordinate installation activities with suppliers, engineering specialists, project managers, and operational teams
• Assist with site risk management and ensure CDM compliance and safety standards
• Create site surveys and 2D/3D CAD layouts for conveyors, sorting systems, and robotics
• Contribute to installation planning, design reviews, and provide technical support during production, installation, commissioning and testing
• Assist with performance monitoring, root cause analysis, and issue resolution during commissioning and early-life
• Support handover documentation and compliance checks to ensure safe and effective asset introduction

Key requirements

• Recognised qualification in engineering, technical or scientific discipline (Level 4 or 5 e.g. HNC/HND)
• Experience supporting installation and commissioning of automation or material-handling systems
• Experience on construction or engineering deployment sites, ideally under CDM regulations
• Proficiency in AutoCAD and other CAD software (SolidWorks, Inventor)
• Competence with project documentation tools (MS Project, SharePoint, Jira)
• Desirable accreditation from a professional body (Eng Tech or Incorporated)

• collaboration across cross-functional teams
• safety-conscious and compliant mindset
• problem-solving and root-cause analysis
• AutoCAD
• SolidWorks
• Inventor

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