Engineering Maintenance Section Manager

Engineering Maintenance Section Manager

Salary: Competitive salary

Benefits: Company share save scheme, Competitive matched pension contribution, Life insurance up to 4x salary

Location: Greencore Spalding Meals, West Marsh Road, Spalding, PE11 2BB

Ways of Working: Site based

Hours of work: Blue Days  3223, 06:00am – 18:00pm

Contract Type: Permanent

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 every day 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.

Our site in Spalding is a vibrant hub where over 1,470 colleagues bring handcrafted sandwich wraps, salads, dips, soups, sauces, and mayonnaise to life across three manufacturing facilities and a distribution centre.

What you’ll be doing

Join our team as an Engineering Maintenance Section Manager, where you’ll lead a skilled engineering and operational team in maintaining and optimising food and drink processing and packaging assets.

You’ll oversee planned, predictive, and reactive maintenance, drive continuous improvement initiatives, and implement practical solutions to enhance efficiency and performance. This role offers hands-on leadership, technical challenge, and the opportunity to shape processes while developing your team’s capability.

Role Accountabilities

• Prepare for and manage food and drink maintenance activities
• Deliver planned, predictive, and reactive maintenance on processing and packaging assets
• Diagnose and resolve electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, automation, and pneumatic faults
• Lead teams during machinery changeovers and equipment set-ups
• Drive continuous improvement and support failure investigations to improve efficiency
• Conduct technical performance reviews with key stakeholders
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date engineering documentation
• Develop team capability and technical competence
• Ensure maintenance tools and equipment are available and operating efficiently
• Support internal and external audits
• Manage day-to-day people activities for direct reports

What we’re looking for

• Strong multi-skilled engineering capability with an electrical bias
• Sound knowledge of food manufacturing equipment and hygienic engineering principles
• Confident fault-finding skills across mechanical, electrical, and automation systems
• Experience planning maintenance activities and managing budgets, spares, and CMMS
• Proven ability to lead, motivate, and develop engineering teams
• Strong contractor management and safe systems of work knowledge
• Good understanding of health, safety, environmental legislation, and risk management
• Continuous improvement mindset with exposure to reliability or productivity techniques
• Clear communicator with the ability to collaborate across operations and engineering

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

If this sounds like you, join us and 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
• Competitive matched pension contribution
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• 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.

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