Why Greencore?

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 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95bn. Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop. At Greencore we actively encourage our colleagues to apply for our vacancies, whether as a lateral move to broaden experience or the next step up to progress your career and development. We also welcome applications from external candidates who are eager to grow their career with us.

Here at Selby we employ a team over 750 colleagues. A site steeped in history, we are the UK’s number one manufacturer of customer private label cooking sauces and pickles. We have been serving our customers out of our Selby site since 1914.

We produce more than 160 million units per year across 600 different 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 new 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.

As a Team Leader you will:

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 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

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

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
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.

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