Maintenance Manager

Greencore; England; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; 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 access

Enhanced parental leave and menopause

On the job training and development

Job summary

Greencore Warrington is seeking a Maintenance Manager to lead the engineering team at the Warrington site. You will report to the Engineering Controller and oversee maintenance planning to maximise asset availability.

Candidates with multiskilled backgrounds, FMCG experience, and OSH certification are encouraged to apply. The role offers a competitive package, pension, life cover, and training opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience at engineering management level in a food manufacturing environment or FMCG.
• Budgeting and project management skills.
• Experience with Microsoft products and CMMS.
• OSH certification with food hygiene accreditation.

Responsibilities

• Design maintenance schedules to maximise asset availability.
• Provide leadership to keep colleagues safe, engaged and developed.
• Maintain preventive maintenance systems and balance risk.
• Monitor departmental KPIs and align activity to targets.
• Apply asset management maintenance strategies to optimise performance.
• Develop a culture of continuous improvement within the engineering department.

Skills

Engineering management

Budget management

Leadership

OSH certification

Report writing

Multiskilled maintenance

Education

Engineering HNC or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

CMMS

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.

Our Warrington site is also known as the Italian centre of excellence, recent expansion and investment make this site a state-of-the-art manufacturing unit! We produce high quality Italian ready meals for both Tesco & Co-Op.

What You’ll Be Doing

As Maintenance Manager at Warrington you will report directly to the Engineering Controller.

Our team at Warrington has a wide range of backgrounds and skills, and we are ideally looking for someone from a multiskilled background. Your responsibilities will include, but not limited to:

• Designing and executing the maintenance schedule to maximise asset availability
• Providing leadership and direction to ensure that colleagues are kept safe, engaged, focused, developed and delivering their potential
• Maintaining the planned preventive maintenance systems to enable proactive maintenance whilst balancing risk
• Monitoring departmental key performance indicators, aligning activity to ensure targets are achieved
• Applying an appropriate asset management maintenance strategy to optimise asset performance through the life cycle
• Developing a culture of continuous improvement within the engineering department

What We’re Looking For

As Maintenance Manager, you will ideally have:

• Experience of operating at engineering management level within a food manufacturing environment or FMCG
• Project management skills and an understanding of budgetary management
• Experience and understanding of Microsoft and computerised maintenance management system
• OSH certified with a food hygiene accreditation
• Experience of leading a diverse workforce
• Experience of contributing to a multi-functional operational management team
• Experienced in report writing
• Ideally qualified to an Engineering HNC level or equivalent industrial experience
• Maintenance management expertise (FMGCA, RCM, Tribology, CBH)

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.

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.