Maintenance Shift Leader

Why Greencore? We're a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better. We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer, employing 13,300 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY24, we generated revenues of £1.8bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,500 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties. Here at Northampton, we operate one of the most impressive facilities in Europe, based across a campus of 5 manufacturing units, and we have a team of around 2,000 colleagues making high quality premium products every day. We are the sole supplier of sandwiches, wraps, rolls and sushi for Marks & Spencer.

What You'll Be Doing: Are you a multi-skilled Engineer or Engineering Shift Leader looking for a new technically challenging and varied role? Can you lead and empower a team? We are looking for an Engineering Shift Leader; managing a team of fellow Engineers who maintain and improve the performance of all plant and equipment to achieve maximum machine availability targets.

• 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 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 studies and active contribution to daily meetings.

Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off days.

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.

• 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.

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, pension up to 8% matched, company share save scheme, 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.