Maintenance Shift Leader

Greencore; Rotherham; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension contributions

Life insurance

Employee share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Wellbeing Centre access

Parental leave policies

Job summary

Greencore’s Kiveton site is seeking an Engineering Team Leader to guide a skilled shift team in maintaining and improving plant reliability. You will drive uptime, safety, and GMP standards across multiple lines in a fast-paced quiche bakery environment.

Ideal candidates will have an accredited engineering apprenticeship (Level 3) and proven supervisory experience within FMCG manufacturing, with strong fault-finding and PLC awareness.

Qualifications

• Completed accredited apprenticeship or equivalent with Level 3 qualification.
• Experience as an engineer in manufacturing environments.
• Knowledge of permit systems, risk assessments and method statements.
• Experience fault-finding on manufacturing machinery.
• Food/FMCG manufacturing experience is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Head an engineering shift team to create a high performing culture.
• Plan and prioritise the shift workload to achieve production targets.
• Execute the planned preventative maintenance schedule to maximise uptime.
• Ensure plant and equipment comply with legislation and maintain a safe working environment.
• Ensure permit to work is in place for contractors and colleagues.
• Adhere to GMP and food safety requirements in daily operations.
• Document shift activities, performance, CMMS usage, and root cause analyses.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Fault finding

PLC awareness

Engineering background

Risk assessments

Method statements

Education

Engineering apprenticeship (Level 3)

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 site in Kiveton employs over 500 and is the UK's largest quiche bakery, producing more than 42 million quiche each year along with a wide range of ready meals.

Shift: 4on 4off Days and Nights

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 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.

• 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 desirableIf 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
• 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.

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