Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer

Salary: Competitive salary

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

Location: Elveden London

Ways of Working: Site based

Hours of work: Sunday-Thursday 22:00pm-06:30am

Contract Type: Permanent

What you'll be doing

In this busy and exciting role, you will bring your engineering skills and problem-solving abilities to our team to help maintain and optimise our food and drink processing and packaging assets.

You'll play a key part in keeping production running smoothly, safely, and efficiently - ensuring that our equipment performs at its best to deliver high-quality products for our customers.

You'll be involved in a wide range of engineering activities, from planned and predictive maintenance to responding to breakdowns and implementing improvements.

Working closely with operational teams, you'll use your technical expertise to diagnose faults, carry out repairs, and contribute to continuous improvement projects that enhance efficiency, reliability, and profitability.

Role Accountabilities

• Prepare and carry out maintenance work on food and drink processing and packaging equipment.
• Conduct planned and predictive maintenance to optimise performance and prevent downtime.
• Respond promptly to breakdowns, carrying out repairs or corrective actions as required.
• Diagnose and resolve electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, automation, and pneumatic faults.
• Support operational teams with machinery changeovers, set-ups, and adjustments.
• Manufacture or repair component parts to maintain equipment reliability.
• Contribute to continuous improvement projects and technical performance reviews.
• Identify and implement engineering solutions to improve efficiency and profitability.
• Maintain accurate maintenance and engineering documentation.
• Ensure maintenance tools and equipment are available, safe, and well maintained.
• Support and mentor team members to develop technical skills and competence.
• Participate in internal and external audits to ensure compliance with safety and quality standards.

What we're looking for

• Level 2 Maths/English; recognised Engineering Apprenticeship (C&G/EAL NVQ 3/4 or OAL FDEM).
• First-year requirements: IET Wiring Regs, Level 2 Food Safety, CMMS training, contractor control.
• Role develops multi-skilled capability with electrical bias.
• Strong problem-solving, communication and teamwork.
• Knowledge of SHE procedures.
• Experience in fault finding, maintenance planning, IT systems and following SOPs.
• Mechanical/electrical knowledge: hydraulics, pneumatics, motors, PLCs, sensors.
• Understanding of asset performance and spare parts management.
• Desirable: IOSH Managing Safely, FMCG experience, continuous improvement, condition-based monitoring, reliability techniques.

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

Benefits

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits.
• Holidays
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• 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