Maintenance Manager

Greencore Group Lts; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK food manufacturer is seeking a Maintenance Manager based in Sheffield. You will be responsible for designing maintenance schedules, leading a diverse team, and ensuring asset performance. Ideal candidates will have engineering management experience in food manufacturing, project management skills, and maintenance management expertise. Competitive salary and benefits including holidays, pension, and employee discounts are provided. Join us to be part of our future success and drive operational excellence.

Benefits

Competitive salary and job-related benefits

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Exclusive employee discount platform

Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Qualifications

• Experience in engineering management within food manufacturing or FMCG.
• Knowledge of maintenance management (FMGCA, RCM, Tribology, CBH).
• OSH certified with food hygiene accreditation.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute maintenance schedules for asset availability.
• Lead team to ensure safety, engagement, and potential delivery.
• Monitor departmental key performance indicators.

Skills

Engineering management experience

Project management

Budgetary management

Leading diverse workforce

Report writing

Education

Engineering HNC level or equivalent industrial experience

Tools

Microsoft maintenance management systems

Job description

Why Greencore?

We're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose : to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, soups, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY24, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.8bn.

Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

At Greencore we actively encourage our colleagues to apply for our vacancies, whether as a lateral move to broaden experience or the next step up to progress your career and development. We also welcome applications from external candidates who are eager to grow their career with us.

Our site in Kiveton employs over 600 and is the UK's largest quiche bakery, producing more than 42 million quiche each year along with a wide range of ready meals and soups.

What You'll Be Doing

As Maintenance Manager at Kiveton you will report directly to the Engineering Controller. Our team at Kiveton has a wide range of backgrounds and skills, and we are ideally looking for someone from a multiskilled background with an electrical bias. 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

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.

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 teamExperienced in report writing
• Ideally qualified to an Engineering HNC level or equivalent industrial experience
• Maintenance management expertise (FMGCA, RCM, Tribology, CBH)

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
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.