Environment Manager

Greencore; Worksop; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Greencore, a leading UK convenience food manufacturer, is seeking an Environment Manager. This role involves overseeing IT environments to ensure they support testing and delivery processes, while managing risks and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Competitive salary and benefits are provided, along with career development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Exclusive employee discount platform

Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing IT environments.
• Robust understanding of provisioning and scheduling practices.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provision and maintain test environments.
• Manage environment scheduling and allocation.
• Monitor and optimise environment performance.

Skills

Environment provisioning

IT delivery management

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

ITIL

DevOps

Job description

Why Greencore?

We're a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK, committed to making everyday taste better. As a vibrant, fast-paced company, we employ 13,300 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots nationwide. We supply a wide range of food products to all UK food retailers, including sandwiches, soups, sushi, cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY24, our revenues reached 1.8 billion.

Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising 17 depots, enables us to make over 10,500 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce, as well as third-party products.

What You'll Be Doing

The Environment Manager oversees the provisioning, configuration, and scheduling of IT environments to support testing and delivery. Reporting to the Head of Testing & QA, this role ensures environments are reliable, available, and aligned with project timelines. It plays a key role in mitigating risks related to availability and conflicts, contributing to the success of IT testing and delivery processes.

• Provision and maintain test environments.
• Manage environment scheduling and allocation.
• Collaborate with project teams on environment requirements.
• Monitor and optimise environment performance.
• Manage environment-related risks and issues.
• Support environment configuration and data preparation.
• Document and standardise environment management.

What we're looking for

We are proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.

• Proven experience in managing IT environments in a testing or delivery context.
• Robust understanding of environment provisioning, configuration, and scheduling practices.
• Familiarity with tools and frameworks used for environment management and monitoring.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Good collaboration and communication skills to work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Knowledge of software development and testing lifecycles, including Agile methodologies, is desirable.
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Certifications in relevant tools or frameworks (e.g., ITIL, DevOps, or cloud platforms) are advantageous.

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, driving our future success.

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will receive on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.