Maintenance Manager

Greencore; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK food manufacturer is seeking a Maintenance Manager at its Kiveton site. The role requires experience in engineering management within food manufacturing and strong leadership skills. You'll design maintenance schedules, ensure safety, and develop a continuous improvement culture. Competitive salary and various benefits are offered, along with opportunities for training and career growth.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Exclusive employee discount platform

Access to Wellbeing Centre platform

Qualifications

• Experience at engineering management level within a food manufacturing environment.
• Understanding of budgetary management.
• OSH certified with food hygiene accreditation.
• Experience leading a diverse workforce.
• Contribution to a multi-functional operational management team.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute maintenance schedules for asset availability.
• Provide leadership to ensure a safe and focused team.
• Maintain preventive maintenance systems for proactive maintenance.
• Monitor departmental key performance indicators to achieve targets.
• Develop a culture of continuous improvement in the engineering department.

Skills

Multi-skilled background with electrical bias

Leadership and man-management

Project management skills

Report writing

Experience with Microsoft systems

Education

Engineering HNC level or equivalent experience

Tools

Computerised maintenance management system

Job description

Why Greencore?

We’re a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better.

We’re a vibrant, fast‑paced leading food manufacturer. Employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.

Our vast direct‑to‑store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

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 multi‑skilled background with an electrical bias, and extensive man‑management experience. 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 team
• Experienced 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.