Maintenance Engineer
- Posted 09 December 2025
- LocationSelby
- Job type Permanent - Full Time
- Discipline Engineering / Maintenance
- Reference045544
- Job FunctionOperations
- Expiry date 09 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.
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.
Our Selby site is home to over 750 colleagues and a proud heritage. As the UK’s number one manufacturer of private-label cooking sauces and pickles, we’ve been serving customers since 1914. Today, we produce more than 160 million units a year across 600 product lines for major retailers including Morrisons, Tesco and Asda.
We’re looking for an experienced HR Business Partner to join us on a fixed-term contract, covering maternity leave from January 2026 for around 10.5months. Because this role is rooted in our people and our day-to-day operations, you’ll work full-time from our Selby site (YO8 5BJ).
What You’ll Be Doing
Are you an experienced multiskilled maintenance engineer from an FMCG/Food background looking for a new challenge?
As one of our highly skilled maintenance engineers you will be responsible for:
- Carrying out fault finding, problem solving and planned and preventative maintenance on plant equipment to maximise equipment reliability and performance
- Responding to internal customer needs to maximise production time according to given priorities
- Complying with food safety standards and controls to ensure all work is carried out correctly and safely
- Completing all necessary documentation ensuring that it is kept accurate and is audit ready
- Identify and recommend opportunities for improvements to promote Health & Safety and/or operational efficiency and effectiveness
- Maintenance on a range of manufacturing/production/packaging machinery
Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off rotating days and nights
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.
As one of our maintenance engineers you will:
- People who have experience operating as an engineer, following a completed accredited apprenticeship or equivalent experience with appropriate Level 3 qualification
- Have experience working as a Maintenance Engineer within manufacturing/FMCG
- Utilise a proactive approach, with a willingness to learn and develop
- Have experience in electrical and mechanical fault finding
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.