maintenance engineers

Greencore Group plc; Todwick; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension contributions

Life insurance

Company share save scheme

Greencore qualifications

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing centre platform

Enhanced parental leave and menopause

Job summary

Greencore Group plc is seeking an experienced multiskilled maintenance engineer with an FMCG background to join our Kiveton site. You will conduct fault finding, perform planned and preventive maintenance, and ensure food safety and audit-ready documentation.

The role focuses on reducing downtime, improving safety, and driving efficiency across packaging and production machinery in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Experience as an engineer in manufacturing/FMCG environments.
• Electrically biased with fault-finding ability in electrical and mechanical systems.
• Proactive learner with a focus on safety and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Carry out fault finding and planned maintenance to maximise equipment reliability.
• Respond to internal needs to maximise production time according to priorities.
• Comply with food safety standards and controls in all work.
• Complete documentation to keep audit readiness.
• Identify opportunities to improve health & safety and efficiency.
• Maintain a range of manufacturing/packaging machinery.

Skills

Electrical fault finding

Mechanical fault finding

Maintenance engineering

FMCG experience

Apprenticeship/Level 3

Proactive learning

Education

Accredited apprenticeship

Level 3 qualification

Job description

Are you an experienced multiskilled maintenance engineer from an FMCG/Food background looking for a new challenge?

Responsibilities

• Carrying out fault finding, problem solving and planned and preventative maintenance on plant equipment to maximise equipment reliability and performance
• Responding to internal customer needs to maximise production time according to given priorities
• Complying with food safety standards and controls to ensure all work is carried out correctly and safely
• Completing all necessary documentation ensuring that it is kept accurate and is audit ready
• Identify and recommend opportunities for improvements to promote Health & Safety and/or operational efficiency and effectiveness
• Maintenance on a range of manufacturing/production/packaging machinery

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

Qualifications

• People who have experience operating as an engineer, following a completed accredited apprenticeship or equivalent experience with appropriate Level 3 qualification
• Electrically biased
• Have experience working as a Maintenance Engineer within manufacturing/FMCG
• Utilise a proactive approach, with a willingness to learn and develop
• Have experience in electrical and mechanical fault finding

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. Our site in Kiveton employs over 500 and is the UK’s largest quiche bakery, producing more than 42 million quiche each year along with a wide range of ready meals.

Shift Pattern & Hours

Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off rotating days and nights

Compensation & Benefits

• 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