UK Asset Care Manager

Greencore; Spalding; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Holiday entitlement

Pension contributions

Life insurance

Share save scheme

Discount platform

Job summary

Greencore’s Asset Care Manager role focuses on delivering the asset management strategy across sites, improving maintenance plans, and ensuring compliance with governance frameworks. The position emphasizes leadership in a multi-site environment and advancing life-cycle asset value.

With a hybrid/site-based working model, the role requires engineering expertise, strong change management skills, and a track record in reliability and continuous improvement to maximise asset availability and safety.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering or completed engineering apprenticeship.
• Experience in asset care management and leadership roles.
• Knowledge of TPM, maintenance workflows and reliability.
• Experience deploying Industry 4.0 tech across multiple sites and CMMS.

Responsibilities

• Support site delivery of asset management strategy and governance.
• Develop preventive, predictive and reliability maintenance plans.
• Ensure ISO 55001 compliance and governance alignment.
• Lead asset maturity assessments and SAMP roadmaps.
• Monitor CMMS data quality and asset information.
• Deliver asset management training across the organisation.
• Identify and mitigate high‑critical asset risks.
• Track SAMP KPIs and drive improvement actions.

Skills

Asset management

Change management

Reliability engineering

Continuous improvement

Leadership

Education

Engineering degree

Engineering apprenticeship

Tools

CMMS

Industry 4.0 tech

Job description

Job Description

Salary: Competitive salary

Benefits: Company share save scheme, Competitive matched pension contribution, Life insurance up to 4x salary

Location: Spalding

Ways of Working: Hybrid/Site based

Hours of work: 8:30-17:00

Contract Type: Permanent

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.

What You’ll Be Doing

The Asset Care Manager provides business support and strategic direction for sites in executing the organisation’s asset management vision. This role supports delivery of the long-term strategy to maximise the asset life cycle and value defined by the business. The role supports delivery of the asset management vision and long-term strategy to maximise asset availability, safety, compliance, sustainability, and whole-life value across the manufacturing estate. It supports the implementation of CBM / predictive maintenance techniques as defined by the head of asset management. The role will use life cycle asset management techniques to identify and support the implementation of asset or asset system decisions which support the business goals and objectives, delivering the required value at the lowest total cost of ownership.

Role Accountabilities

• Reporting directly to the Head of Asset Management
• Support the delivery of the asset management strategy to ensure business growth, operational resilience, food safety, and sustainability objectives. Provide support and direction on asset-related risk, capital allocation, and lifecycle optimisation aligned with the organisational objectives.
• Support sites in the development of standardised preventive, predictive, and reliability-based maintenance strategies across all manufacturing sites, aligned with group targets and financial plans.
• Support sites in understanding and working to the group asset management governance framework, policies, and standards, ensuring alignment with ISO 55001 and consistent application across all sites.
• Completion of each site’s maturity assessment with the site engineering leads. From the maturity assessment, create a defined roadmap against the SAMP, to be agreed and delivered by the site engineering leads.
• Monitor sites against the CMMS standard ensuring full compliance. Audit sites against the group Asset Information & Data Strategy, ensuring value added inputs and outputs, with documented evidence of outcomes and improvement opportunities.
• Support delivery of the SAMP through asset criticality analysis, FMECA (developing the right maintenance plans), and risk management frameworks. Ensure high-criticality asset risks are identified, controlled, and mitigated to protect food safety, service, and compliance.
• Support the delivery of asset management training across the organisation through structured training, coaching, and deployment of best practices.
• Identify, manage, mitigate any significant high critical asset failure within the organization, considering the principles set out in the SAMP.
• Monitor site performance against the group SAMP KPI’s, creating a clear action plan where improvement is needed.

What We’re Looking For

• Educated to degree level in Engineering (BEng, BSc, MEng, PhD) or has served and completed engineering apprenticeship
• Held a management position relating to asset care
• Knowledge of full Asset Care strategies and processes (maintenance workflow, reliability, failure reduction, TPM, etc.)
• Experienced in successful system deployment, including Industry 4.0 technologies across multiple sites.
• Experience working with CMMS systems.
• Experience in driving change management
• Regulatory compliance and risk management
• Application of asset management strategies
• Coaching of reliability techniques
• The ability to apply continuous improvement techniques and quantify asset, asset system and asset management activity-related risks with mitigation options
• Experience in food, FMCG, pharmaceutical, chemical, or regulated process industries

We’re proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.

If this sounds like you, join us and 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 contribution
• 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.