Maintenance Shift Leader

TN United Kingdom; Boston; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in the convenience food sector is seeking a dynamic Engineering Team Leader to join their vibrant team in Boston. This role involves managing a skilled engineering team to ensure optimal performance of plant and equipment. You will lead by example, fostering a high-performing culture while executing maintenance schedules and ensuring compliance with safety standards. With a focus on professional development, this role offers an exciting opportunity to grow within a supportive environment. If you're passionate about engineering and team leadership, this is the perfect chance to make a significant impact.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Company Share Save Scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Employee Discount Platform

Wellbeing Centre Access

On-the-job Training

Qualifications

• Mechanical or electrical engineering qualification through apprenticeship or study.
• Knowledge of permit systems and risk assessments.

Responsibilities

• Lead an engineering shift team to maximize machinery uptime and production targets.
• Execute planned preventative maintenance to minimize disruptions.

Skills

Mechanical Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Supervisory Experience

Fault-finding Skills

PLC Awareness

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Engineering

Job description

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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. In FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.

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

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

Are you a multi-skilled Engineering Team Leader / Maintenance Shift Leader looking for a new, technically dynamic, and varied role? Can you guide and empower a team?

We are looking for an Engineering Team Leader; managing a team of fellow Engineers who maintain and improve the performance of all plant and equipment to achieve maximum machine availability targets.

As a Team Leader, you will:

• Head an engineering shift team to create a high-performing culture where team members are motivated, engaged, and supported to develop and achieve their potential.
• Plan and prioritise the shift workload for the engineering team to enable production targets to be achieved by maximising machinery uptime.
• Execute the planned preventative maintenance schedule to maximise machinery uptime and minimise disruption to production targets.
• Ensure all plant and equipment adhere to all relevant legislation and that a safe working environment is maintained at all times.
• Ensure that the permit to work is in place and adhered to so that contractors and colleagues work safely at all times.
• Ensure the shift engineering team adheres to good manufacturing practices (GMP), ensuring compliance with manufacturing unit food safety requirements.
• Head the engineering team to create a high-performing culture; including setting team/individual expectations, leading by example, encouraging and supporting to achieve their potential, and ensuring policies are upheld.
• Ensure the accurate and timely documentation of shift activities & performance, escalation of relevant events as required, real-time use of CMMS, completion of relevant reports, root cause analysis studies, and engaged contribution to daily meetings.

Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off nights

What We're Looking For

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.

You will:

• Hold a mechanical or electrical engineering qualification gained through a time-served apprenticeship or study, ideally at NVQ L3.
• Have knowledge of permit systems, risk assessments, and method statements.
• Possess supervisory experience.
• Have practical experience of fault-finding on various types of manufacturing machinery.
• Display PLC awareness and fault-finding capabilities.
• Understand how to maintain engineering systems within a manufacturing environment.
• Food or wider FMCG manufacturing experience is desirable.

If this sounds like you, join us, 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.
• 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.