Maintenance Shift Leader

Greencore; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading convenience food manufacturer in the UK is seeking a Maintenance Shift Leader to manage a team of engineers at their Selby facility. The role involves leading a high-performing team, planning workload, and ensuring compliance with safety regulations. Candidates should possess a mechanical or electrical engineering qualification, supervisory experience, and practical fault-finding skills. The position offers competitive salary and benefits including a pension matched up to 8%.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Company share save scheme

Exclusive employee discounts

Access to Wellbeing Centre platform

Qualifications

• Hold a mechanical or electrical engineering qualification gained through an apprenticeship or study.
• Knowledge of permit systems, risk assessments, and method statements.
• Practical experience of fault finding on various types of manufacturing machinery.

Responsibilities

• Lead an engineering shift team to create a high performing culture.
• Plan and prioritise the shift workload for the engineering team.
• Execute the planned preventative maintenance schedule.

Skills

Mechanical or electrical engineering qualification

Supervisory experience

Practical fault finding on manufacturing machinery

PLC Awareness

Understanding of Engineering Systems

Education

NVQ Level 3 engineering qualification

Job description

Overview

Greencore is a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK. Our purpose is to make every day. We employ around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots. We supply the UK's food retailers with products from sandwiches and soups to ready meals, and we generated revenues of 1.9bn in FY23. Our Selby site employs over 750 colleagues and is the UK's number one manufacturer of customer private label cooking sauces and pickles, serving customers since 1914. We produce more than 160 million units per year across 600 product lines for customers such as Morrisons, Tesco & Asda.

What you'll be doing

Are you a multi-skilled Engineer with experience leading and empowering a team? Are you looking for a technically challenging and varied role? We are looking for a Maintenance Shift Leader to join Greencore Selby; managing a team of fellow Engineers who maintain and improve the performance of all plant and equipment to achieve maximum machine availability targets.

Responsibilities

• Lead 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 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 adhere to good manufacturing practices (GMP) ensuring compliance with manufacturing unit food safety requirements
• Lead 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, and active 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:

• Hold a mechanical or electrical engineering qualification gained through a time served apprenticeship or study, ideally at NVQ L3
• 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

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.