Engineering Maintenance Section Manager

Greencore; Spalding; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company share save scheme

Pension (matched)

Life insurance

Job summary

Greencore Spalding is seeking an Engineering Maintenance Section Manager to lead a skilled engineering and operations team in maintaining and optimising food and drink processing and packaging assets.

You will oversee planned, predictive, and reactive maintenance, drive continuous improvement initiatives, and implement practical solutions to enhance efficiency and performance while developing your team's capability.

Responsibilities

• Prepare for and manage food and drink maintenance activities
• Deliver planned, predictive, and reactive maintenance on processing and packaging assets
• Diagnose and resolve electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, automation, and pneumatic faults
• Lead teams during machinery changeovers and equipment set-ups
• Drive continuous improvement and support failure investigations to improve efficiency
• Conduct technical performance reviews with key stakeholders
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date engineering documentation
• Develop team capability and technical competence
• Ensure maintenance tools and equipment are available and operating efficiently

Job description

Job Description

Salary: Competitive salary

Benefits: Company share save scheme, Competitive matched pension contribution, Life insurance up to 4x salary

Location: Greencore Spalding Meals, West Marsh Road, Spalding, PE11 2BB

Ways of Working: Site based

Hours of work: Blue Days 3223, 06:00am - 18:00pm

Contract Type: Permanent

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Our site in Spalding is a vibrant hub where over 1,470 colleagues bring handcrafted sandwich wraps, salads, dips, soups, sauces, and mayonnaise to life across three manufacturing facilities and a distribution centre.

What You’ll Be Doing

Join our team as an Engineering Maintenance Section Manager, where you'll lead a skilled engineering and operational team in maintaining and optimising food and drink processing and packaging assets.

You’ll oversee planned, predictive, and reactive maintenance, drive continuous improvement initiatives, and implement practical solutions to enhance efficiency and performance. This role offers hands-on leadership, technical challenge, and the opportunity to shape processes while developing your team's capability.

Role Accountabilities

• Prepare for and manage food and drink maintenance activities
• Deliver planned, predictive, and reactive maintenance on processing and packaging assets
• Diagnose and resolve electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, automation, and pneumatic faults
• Lead teams during machinery changeovers and equipment set-ups
• Drive continuous improvement and support failure investigations to improve efficiency
• Conduct technical performance reviews with key stakeholders
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date engineering documentation
• Develop team capability and technical competence
• Ensure maintenance tools and equipment are available and operating efficiently