Maintenance shift leader

Greencore Group; Northampton; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Holiday entitlement

Pension contributions

Life insurance

Company sharesave

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount

Wellbeing platform

Parental leave policy

Job summary

Greencore Group in Northampton seeks an Engineering Team Leader to guide a team of engineers maintaining and improving plant performance. You will manage a shift, prioritise workload and drive uptime across critical lines at our Northampton site.

The role requires supervisory experience, a Level 3 qualification, and strong PLC fault-finding ability, with a focus on GMP and food safety. Competitive benefits and development opportunities are offered.

Qualifications

• Completed accredited apprenticeship or equivalent with Level 3 qualification.
• Knowledge of permit systems, risk assessments and method statements.
• Supervisory experience in a manufacturing setting.
• Hands-on fault finding on various manufacturing machinery and PLC awareness.

Responsibilities

• Head an engineering shift team to create a high performing culture.
• Plan and prioritise shift workload to meet production targets.
• Execute the preventative maintenance schedule to maximise uptime.
• Ensure compliance with GMP and food safety requirements.
• Maintain documentation, reports and CMMS data in real time.

Skills

Engineering experience

Supervisory experience

PLC awareness

Fault finding

Education

Level 3 qualification

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026,we’reone 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’reproud 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 thevery best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Here atNorthampton, we operate one of the most impressive facilities in Europe, based across a campus of 5 manufacturing units, and we have a team of around 2,000 colleagues making high quality premium products every day. We are the sole supplier of sandwiches, wraps, rolls and sushi for Marks & Spencer.

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.

What You’ll Be Doing

We are looking for an Engineering Team Leader; managing a team of 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 up time
• Execute the planned preventative maintenance schedule to maximise machinery up time and minimise disruption to production targets
• Ensure all plant and equipment adhere to all relevant legislation and so that a safe working environment is maintained 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 adhere 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

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:

• People who have experience operating as an engineer, following a completed accredited apprenticeship or equivalent experience with appropriate Level 3 qualification
• Knowledge of permit systems, risk assessments and method statements
• 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.

Whatyou’llget in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Companysharesave scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhancedparentalleave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported withon the jobtraining and development opportunities to further your career.

We reserve the right to close this advertisement before the stated closing date.

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