Facilities Engineer

Posted 04 December 2025
LocationNorthampton
Job type Permanent - Full Time
Discipline Engineering / Maintenance
Reference045384
Job FunctionOperations
Expiry date 04 January 2026

Job description

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, soups, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY24, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.8bn.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Are you an experienced multiskilled Facilities engineer looking for a new challenge?

 

What You'll be Doing: 

  • Complete planned and preventative maintenance on plant and equipment to maximise equipment reliability and performance
  • Carry out fault finding, problem solving to establish route causes and identify and implement fixes to address plant or equipment issues
  • Comply with all Greencore health and safety standards, safe systems of work and standard operating procedures in addition to legislative and compliance standards and controls to ensure all work is carried out correctly and safely
  • Complete all necessary documentation in an accurate and timely fashion to ensure that comprehensive reporting and history is maintained and that records are always audit-ready
  • Identify and recommend opportunities for improvements on plant equipment efficiency and effectiveness
  • Support the site maintenance team where required to ensure operational efficiency and effectiveness

Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off - Days

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What We’re Looking For: 

  • Experience in a similar role or experience gained on the job as an engineering apprentice 
  • Can evidence electrical and / or mechanical skills and ability 
  • Evidence experience gained in a manufacturing environment 
  • Experience with problem solving and root cause identification, supported by the delivery of sustainable solutions 
  • Experience working with others as part of a diverse team 
  • Evidence of good communication skills (both written and verbal) 
  • Experienced working with computers

 

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

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.

 

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.