Engineering Project Manager

Overview

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 everyday 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop user requirement specifications to ensure the clear and common understanding of agreed objectives and standards are established as the basis for project planning.
• Proactively manage end-to-end project or change implementation within well-defined timelines and budgets, covering all facets of implementation, ensuring that project objectives are achieved.
• Ensure that change control procedures are adhered to and that project deliverables are completed within planned cost, timescale and resource budgets, and ensure that these are endorsed by stakeholders.
• Monitor bought-in services, including external suppliers such as technology partners or outsourced providers, to ensure the adherence to standards and the delivery of agreed specifications.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks that could affect the success of the project through a maintenance of a topical risk management plan which ensures that all stakeholders are aware of obstacles to successful delivery.
• Provide effective leadership to the project team, supporting development and managing performance.
• Provide advisory support for Product Development, engaging with the team to ensure engineering involvement from product concept through to launch is achieved.
• Liaise with customers on specific projects to ensure alignment of technology, performance, quality and technical standards so that the general manufacturing solution is fully supported.
• Seek out engineering solutions for recognised manufacturing unit issues including capacity, efficiency, PD, Health and Safety, Hygiene, Technical, Environmental to ensure continuous improvement in the locations standards of performance.

Qualifications

• Experience with a recognised project delivery method such as PMI/PRINCE2.
• Able to use Microsoft Project, or equivalent project management software, to plan and monitor progress and project resourcing.
• Familiar with AutoCAD or similar design software to produce design specifications.
• Current knowledge of Risk Management legislation and Construction (Design & Management) (CDM) regulations.
• Proven track record of managing contracts and third-party providers.
• Familiarity with technologies: Data Centre Hosting, Managed Infrastructure Services, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Implementation, Business Intelligence (BI) Implementation to look for alignment and efficiencies with local manufacturing.
• Level 3 Food Hygiene qualification.
• Qualified and able to assess machinery safety.

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

Benefits

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits.
• Holidays.
• Competitive Pension Scheme.
• Life insurance up to 4x salary.
• Company sharesave scheme.
• 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 the advert earlier than the end date.