Maintenance Engineer

BAKKAVOR GROUP PLC; City Of London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension contributions

Life insurance

Share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre

Job summary

Greencore in London is seeking a Maintenance Engineer to maintain and optimise food and drink processing and packaging assets on a night shift Sunday to Thursday. You will work with electrical and mechanical systems, diagnose faults, carry out repairs, and support continuous improvement projects to keep production running safely and efficiently.

You'll join a fast-paced site at Abbeydale London with a strong focus on reliability and quality, and benefit from a competitive salary, pension

Qualifications

• Engineering apprenticeship completed or equivalent.
• Level 2 Maths/English required; IET Wiring Regs preferred.
• CMMS training and contractor control knowledge helpful.
• Role develops multi-skilled capability with electrical bias.
• Strong problem‑solving, communication, and teamwork skills.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and carry out maintenance on processing and packaging equipment.
• Conduct planned and predictive maintenance to optimise performance.
• Respond to breakdowns with repairs or corrective actions.
• Diagnose electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, and pneumatic faults.
• Support changeovers, set-ups, and equipment adjustments.
• Maintain maintenance records and ensure tools are safe and available.

Skills

Maintenance

Fault-finding

Electrical skills

Mechanical skills

CMMS

SOP adherence

Education

Engineering apprenticeship

Maths/English Level 2

IET Wiring Regs

Tools

PLC systems

SCADA

CMMS software

Job description

Maintenance Engineer

Location: London, Greater London, GB, EC2V 8, Any

Site Details: Bakkavor

Contract End Date: 2026-11-17T10:00:51.847

Job Start Date: 2026-10-17T00:00:00

Salary and Benefits: Salary: Competitive salary
Benefits: Company share save scheme, Competitive matched pension contributions, Life insurance (up to 4x salary)

Location

Abbeydale London

Ways of Working

Site based

Hours of Work

Sunday - Thursday, 22:00 PM - 06:30 AM

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 39 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 from our own facilities and trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Our site in Park Royal, West London, spans three factories and a distribution centre. The site produces a variety of chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products, and savoury accompaniments, employing over 2,000 people in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.

What you'll be doing

In this busy and exciting role, you will bring your engineering skills and problem-solving abilities to our team to help maintain and optimise our food and drink processing and packaging assets. You'll play a key part in keeping production running smoothly, safely, and efficiently - ensuring that our equipment performs at its best to deliver high-quality products for our customers.

You’ll be involved in a wide range of engineering activities, from planned and predictive maintenance to responding to breakdowns and implementing improvements. Working closely with operational teams, you will use your technical expertise to diagnose faults, carry out repairs, and contribute to continuous improvement projects that enhance efficiency, reliability, and profitability.

Role Accountabilities

• Prepare and carry out maintenance work on food and drink processing and packaging equipment.
• Conduct planned and predictive maintenance to optimise performance and prevent downtime.
• Respond promptly to breakdowns, carrying out repairs or corrective actions as required.
• Diagnose and resolve electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, automation, and pneumatic faults.
• Support operational teams with machinery changeovers, set-ups, and adjustments.
• Manufacture or repair component parts to maintain equipment reliability.
• Contribute to continuous improvement projects and technical performance reviews.
• Identify and implement engineering solutions to improve efficiency and profitability.
• Maintain accurate maintenance records and ensure engineering tools and equipment are available, safe, and well maintained.
• Support and mentor team members to develop technical skills and competence.
• Participate in internal and external audits to ensure compliance with safety and quality standards.

What we're looking for

• Level 2 Maths/English; recognised Engineering Apprenticeship (C&G/EAL NVQ 3/4 or OAL FDEM).
• First-year requirements include IET Wiring Regs, Level 2 Food Safety, CMMS training, contractor control.
• Role develops multi-skilled capability with electrical bias.
• Strong problem‑solving, communication, and teamwork skills.
• Knowledge of SHE procedures.
• Experience in fault finding, maintenance planning, IT systems, and following SOPs.
• Mechanical/electrical knowledge: hydraulics, pneumatics, motors, PLCs, sensors.
• Understanding of asset performance and spare parts management.
• Desirable: IOSH Managing Safely, FMCG experience, continuous improvement, condition‑based monitoring, reliability techniques.

Additional Information

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

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

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

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

Colleagues whose roles are at risk of redundancy and who meet essential role criteria will be given priority consideration for this role