Maintenance Engineer - Nights

Greencore; Boston; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contributions

Life insurance

Share save scheme

Employee discount

Wellbeing centre

Job summary

Greencore is seeking a Technical Controller to lead the site technical function at our UK site. You will head up a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring compliance with food safety and quality standards, and act as the primary technical interface for customers on joint business planning and policy adherence.

You will drive the development and delivery of a robust Quality Management System, oversee audits, and ensure capability across the technical team to meet regulatory requirements and customer

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level with a specialism in Food Science or equivalent.
• Advanced food hygiene Level 4 or equivalent.
• Level 4 HACCP knowledge and Level 4 micro biological training.
• Lead assessor qualification.

Responsibilities

• Head up the site technical function and lead multi-disciplinary teams to operate within technical and hygiene standards.
• Provide leadership to engage and develop colleagues across functions.
• Contribute to food safety and quality systems aligned with operations.
• Serve as senior interface with customers on joint business planning and policies.
• Ensure technical governance and audit compliance across teams and with external requirements.
• Create and deliver an integrated plan to resource technical and hygiene processes.
• Drive technical improvement for compliance and competitive advantage.
• Develop and implement a Quality Management System (QMS).
• Ensure the technical team maintains capability for food safety and quality compliance.

Skills

Technical leadership

Food safety

HACCP knowledge

Quality management

Project management

Stakeholder management

Regulatory compliance

Education

Degree in Food Science

Advanced Food Hygiene Level 4

Level 4 HACCP

Level 4 Microbiological Training

Level 3 Allergen Management

Lead assessor qualification

Job description

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.

Here in Boston we employ around 400 colleagues and produce ready to eat salads, prepared vegetables and snacks for many of the major retailers such as Coop, Boots, Greggs, Costco, Spar and BOL.

What you'll be doing

• As Technical Controller you will head up the site technical function and lead multi-disciplinary teams ensuring that the manufacturing unit operate within the required technical and hygiene process standards by adhering to customer, business and legal standards. In this role you will be a member of the Site Leadership Team.
• Provide leadership and direction to ensure that across the functions colleagues are engaged, focused, developed and delivering their potential
• Contribute to the site leadership team to ensure that food safety and quality systems compliment the operational model
• Provide a senior interface with customers on joint business planning activities to deliver exceptional standards of customer service and adherence to customer policies and requirements
• Ensure technical governance across a multi-disciplinary team to deliver audit compliance with respects to internal, external, legal and customer requirements
• Create and deliver an integrated business plan to ensure that technical and hygiene processes are resourced and directed to deliver manufacturing, customer and legal business objectives
• Identify and promote technical business improvement practices to deliver legal compliance and competitive advantage whilst driving functional improvements
• Devise and implement a Quality Management Systems (QMS), ensuring that management information and statutory information is available for audit and MU Executive decision making
• Ensure that the technical team has the appropriate capability to comply with food safety and quality compliance
• Ensure that a safe working environment exists for all colleagues and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set out in the Health, Safety and Environment Policy

What we're looking for

• We're proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.
• Desired: educated to degree level with a specialism in Food Science (or other relevant qualification)
• Holds the following relevant qualifications: Advanced food hygiene Level 4 or equivalent, Level 4 Hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP), Level 3 allergen management and Level 4 micro biological training
• Holds a lead assessor qualification
• Awareness of Ethical and Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (SEDEX) management
• Experience of creating and implementing an internal audit plan
• Experience of developing and implementing a QMS
• Experience of creating and implementing a technical strategy for a manufacturing unit
• Able to lead projects and project management
• Demonstrable experience of supplier negotiation and managing multiple external contracts with suppliers e.g., service providers, labs, laundry, pest controls and chemical providers
• Is experienced in liaising with government agencies e.g., Environmental Health Officer (EHO)
• Experience of applying advanced food legislation in a manufacturing environment
• Able to implement and delivering KPI improvement plans
• Demonstrable experience of building sustained customer relationships and working with specific customer requirements e.g., Clean-in-place (CIP)/Thermal Process

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.

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