Maintenance shift leader

Posted 21 November 2025
LocationWisbech
Job type Permanent - Full Time
Discipline Engineering / Maintenance
Reference044605
Job FunctionOperations
Expiry date 27 December 2025

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 Wisbech, we have a team of 450 colleagues and manufacture premium chilled ready to cook meals for major retailers such as Asda and Co-op.

 

Shift: 4on 4off Nights

 

What You'll Be Doing

Are you a multi-skilled Engineering Team Leader / Maintenance Shift Leader looking for a new technically dynamic and varied role?

We are looking for an Engineering Team Leader; managing a team of fellow Engineers who maintain and improve the performance of all plant and equipment to achieve maximum machine availability targets. This is a supervising role and will also be required to be on the tools as and when needed. 

As a Team Leader you will:

  • Manage 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

  • Head 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 engaged 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.