Maintenance Shift Leader

Greencore; South Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension contributions

Life insurance

Share save scheme

Discount platform

Wellbeing centre

Parental leave

Training & development

Job summary

Greencore’s Kiveton site is seeking an Engineering Team Leader to head a multi-skilled maintenance shift, driving performance and plant availability across days and nights. You will develop a high performing team, plan workload, execute preventive maintenance, and ensure GMP and safety standards are met on all equipment.

You should have completed an accredited engineering apprenticeship (Level 3) or equivalent, with supervisory experience and PLC fault-finding skills.

Qualifications

• Engineer with accredited apprenticeship or Level 3 qualification.
• Experience with permit systems, risk assessments and method statements.
• Supervisory experience in manufacturing.
• Fault finding on manufacturing machinery and PLC awareness.
• Maintaining engineering systems in a FMCG setting.
• Food manufacturing experience desirable.

Responsibilities

• Head an engineering shift team to create a high performing culture.
• Plan and prioritise the shift workload to maximise uptime.
• Execute planned preventive maintenance to sustain machine availability.
• Ensure all plant/equipment meet relevant legislation and safety standards.
• Maintain permit-to-work compliance for contractors and staff.
• Uphold GMP and food safety requirements across the unit.
• Document shift activities, CMMS entries, reports and root cause studies.
• Provide real time updates and participate in daily meetings.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Fault finding

PLC awareness

Engineering knowledge

Plan & prioritise shift workload

GMP understanding

Permits & risk assessments

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.

• 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.

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.