Maintenance Shift Leader

Greencore; Warrington; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

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Pension

Life insurance

Share save scheme

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Employee discount

Wellbeing platform

Parental leave

Job summary

Greencore is seeking an Engineering Team Leader at our Warrington site to lead a shift of engineers, optimise maintenance and drive uptime across plant and equipment.

You will oversee a high performing team, manage workload, ensure safety and GMP compliance, and maintain accurate shift documentation while using CMMS to support daily meetings and reporting.

Qualifications

• Experience as an engineer with an accredited apprenticeship or equivalent Level 3 qualification.
• Knowledge of permit systems, risk assessments and method statements is preferred.
• Supervisory experience in a manufacturing setting is desirable.
• Practical fault finding on manufacturing machinery and PLC awareness is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Head an engineering shift team to create a high performing culture.
• Plan and prioritise shift workload to maximise uptime and hit production targets.
• Execute the planned preventative maintenance schedule to maximise uptime.
• Ensure compliance with GMP and health & safety requirements.
• Maintain documentation and produce relevant reports and root cause analyses.

Skills

Engineering experience

Level 3 qualification

Supervisory experience

Fault finding

PLC awareness

FMCG experience

Education

Engineering apprenticeship or equivalent

Level 3 engineering qualification

Tools

CMMS software

PLC programming knowledge

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 Warrington site is also known as the Italian centre of excellence, recent expansion and investment make this site a state-of-the-art manufacturing unit! We produce high quality Italian ready meals for both Tesco & Co-Op.

What You'll Be Doing

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.

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