Maintenance engineer

Greencore Group; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holidays

Pension contributions

Life insurance

Company sharesave

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre

Parental leave & menopause policies

Job summary

Greencore is hiring a Maintenance Engineer at our Spalding site. You will manage day-to-day maintenance tasks and site repairs to support maximum productivity in a fast-moving food manufacturing environment.

Join a team of ~540 colleagues and contribute to reliable plant operation with a focus on safety, documentation, and continuous improvement during nights. This role offers strong development opportunities within Greencore.

Qualifications

• Diagnosis of maintenance tasks efficiently and accurately.
• Prioritise daily schedule and activities.
• Request engineering parts via stores and shift manager.
• Escalate significant process changes to the Shift Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities

• Complete fault finding, planned and preventative maintenance on plant and equipment to maximise equipment reliability and performance.
• Carry out fault finding, problem solving and address root causes of equipment issues.
• Maintain communications with the operations team regarding engineering activities and schedules.
• Respond to internal customer needs to maximise production uptime.
• Adhere to food safety standards and controls for safe operation.
• Record stock removals from Engineering stores for accurate stock control.
• Ensure all documentation is accurate and audit-ready.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to improve health, safety, and operational efficiency.

Skills

Fault diagnosis

Planned maintenance

Fault finding

Communication with operations

Safety standards

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 atSpalding, we have a team of around 540 colleagues. We produce coleslaw, potato salad, salad bar bulk products (2kg), pasta salads and couscous/grains for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Morrisons, Co-op, Asda, Aldi, Sainsbury’s, Nando’s and Pizza Hut. Our Spalding site has a restaurant with hot food available to all our colleagues.

What You’ll Be Doing

As Maintenance Engineer you will manage the the day to day maintenance tasks and site repairs to assist operations in achieving maximum productivity.

Shift: on3's & 2's Nights

• 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

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.

• 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.

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
• Companysharesave 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.

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