Lead Maintenance Engineer
Salary: Competitive salary
Benefits: Company share save scheme, Pension up to 8% matched, Life insurance up to 4x salary
Location: Pizza and Bread Aston, Nantwich, CW5 8DL
Ways of Working: Site Based
Hours of work: 4on 4off Rotating Days and Nights : 06:00am-18:00pm / 18:00pm-06:00am
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 everyday 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 Nantwich, Aston, is a vibrant facility producing chilled speciality breads, including sliced baguettes, flatbreads, and dough balls. The site employs around 270 people and delivers high-quality products to a dedicated customer base.
What you'll be doing
Take the lead in a dynamic engineering role where you'll ensure production assets run at peak performance.
You'll drive planned, predictive, and reactive maintenance, support machinery setups and changeovers, and collaborate across teams to deliver continuous improvement.
With a focus on fault diagnosis, technical leadership, and hands-on problem solving, this role offers the chance to make a real impact in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment.
Role Accountabilities:
Perform planned, predictive, and reactive maintenance on production assets
Diagnose and resolve faults across electrical, mechanical, and automation systems
Support machinery setups, changeovers, installations, and removals
Manufacture and repair components for processing and packaging equipment
Lead and contribute to continuous improvement projects
Maintain accurate engineering documentation and asset records
Mentor and support technical development of team members
Ensure tools and equipment are available and functioning
Act as point of contact during weekends or manager absence
Escalate issues to senior engineering management when required
Participate in internal and external audits
What we're looking for
Strong people management experience
A multi skilled background
Experience completing both reactive and planned maintenance activity and small installations
Strong communication skills both written and verbal
Appropriate professional mechanical or electrical engineering qualifications and training
Thorough understanding of common mechanical and electrical systems
Professional attitude with plenty of drive and enthusiasm
Good IT skills including Word, Excel and Outlook At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make everyday taste better.
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
Pension up to 8% matched
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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