Maintenance Engineer

Greencore Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Holidays

Matched pension contributions

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Exclusive employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre platform

Enhanced parental leave and menopause?

Job summary

Greencore Group is seeking a Maintenance Engineer at Park Royal to carry out daily maintenance tasks and site repairs, ensuring maximum productivity. You will diagnose faults, perform planned and preventative maintenance, and keep operations informed of schedules and progress.

The role requires an accredited apprenticeship or equivalent with Level 3 qualifications and the ability to prioritise daily activities, order parts, and escalate for significant changes.

Qualifications

• Experience as an engineer following an accredited apprenticeship or equivalent with Level 3 qualification.

Responsibilities

• Carry out daily maintenance tasks and site repairs to support operations.
• Fault finding, planned and preventative maintenance on plant/equipment.
• Maintain communications with operations about activities and schedules.
• Respond to internal needs to maximise production up time.
• Comply with food safety standards and controls.
• Record stock removed from Engineering stores for stock control.
• Ensure documentation is audit-ready and up to date.
• Identify opportunities for Health, Safety and efficiency improvements.

Skills

Maintenance engineering

Time management

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

Apprenticeship Level 3

Job description

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026,we’reone 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’reproud 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 thevery best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Here at Park Royal, we have a team of around 1,150 colleagues. We produce sandwiches, wraps and platters for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Morrisons, Co-op, Spar, Wilko, Sutherlands, Iceland and Poundland.

Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off day & nights

What You’ll Be Doing

AsMaintenance Engineeryou will carry out the day to day maintenance tasks and site repairs to assist operations in achieving maximum productivity.

• Complete fault finding, planned and preventative maintenance on plant and equipment to maximise equipment reliability and performance.
• Carry out fault finding, problem solving and establish route cause fixes to address equipment issues.
• Maintain ongoing communications with the operations team ensuring they are fully aware of all relevant engineering activities and schedules.
• Respond to internal customer needs to maximise production up time according to given priorities.
• Comply with food safety standards and controls to ensure all work is carried out correctly and safely.
• Record any stock removed from the Engineering stores to ensure accurate stock control.
• Complete all necessary documentation ensuring that it is kept accurate and is audit ready .
• Identify and recommend opportunities for improvements to promote Health and Safety and/or operational efficiency and effectiveness.

What We’re Looking For

• People who have experience operating as an engineer, following a completed accredited apprenticeship or equivalent experience with appropriate Level 3 qualification
• Complete diagnosis of job maintenance.
• Prioritise own daily schedule and order of activities.
• Requesting Engineering parts via stores/Engineering Shift Manager.
• Refer to Engineering Shift Manager for specific work requests for significant process changes i.e. not like for like replacement to parts.
• Escalation to Shift Engineering Manager for performance driven issues as per local operating procedure.

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we makeevery daytaste better.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
• Companyshare 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.