Lead Maintenance Engineer

Lead Maintenance Engineer

Salary:
Competitive salary

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

Location:

Greencore Desserts Highbridge, Bolton Close, Highbridge TA9 4JR

Ways of Working:
Site Based

Hours of work: 4 on 4 off rotating days and nights, (06:00 - 18:00 / 18:00 - 06:00)

Contract Type:
Permanent

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.

The site in Highbridge, Somerset, specialises in producing a range of chilled desserts, including cheesecakes, tarts, and sponges. The site employs over 560 people and operates in a fast‑paced, high‑quality production environment.

As Lead Maintenance Engineer, you will use your engineering skills and problem‑solving abilities to maintain and optimise our processing and packaging equipment to keep our operations running safely, smoothly and efficiently. Working closely with operational colleagues, you'll diagnose faults, complete repairs, support continuous improvement, and ensure our equipment delivers reliable, high‑quality performance for our customers.

• Prepare for food and drink maintenance work.
• Conduct planned maintenance of food and drink processing and packaging assets.
• Conduct predictive maintenance of food and drink processing and packaging assets (condition‑based monitoring).
• Respond to breakdowns of food and drink processing and packaging assets. Conduct reactive maintenance or corrective actions to resolve deviation.
• Identify faults (electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, automation, and pneumatics) on food and drink processing and packaging assets, action as required.
• Lead or support food and drink operational teams with machinery change overs and set ups.
• Manufacture and repair component parts for food and drink processing and packaging assets.
• Contribute to continuous improvement projects to optimise food and drink assets or processes. For example, participate in failure investigations to ensure process effectiveness and to contribute to and implement practical engineering solutions for efficiency and profitability.
• Contribute to technical performance reviews in collaboration with other functions and stakeholders.
• Maintain engineering documentation for food and drink maintenance work.
• Support maintenance and operational team members in developing engineering technical competence.
• Ensure availability and performance of maintenance tools and equipment.
• Contribute to food and drink internal and external audits.

• Level 2 Maths/English and a recognised Engineering Apprenticeship (C&G/EAL NVQ 3/4 or OAL FDEM)
• Ability to complete IET Wiring Regs & Level 2 Food Safety
• Multiskilled capability or an electrical bias
• Strong problem‑solving, communication and teamwork skills
• Knowledge of SHE procedures
• Experience in fault finding, maintenance planning, IT systems and working to SOPs
• Mechanical/electrical knowledge including hydraulics, pneumatics, motors, PLCs and sensors
• Planning works and writing reports.
• Understanding of asset performance and spare parts management
• Desirable: IOSH Managing Safely, FMCG experience, continuous improvement, condition‑based monitoring or reliability techniques
• Fault finding:
  Electrical & or Mechanical systems.
• Supervisory skills
• F&D assets, welding, machining, turning, hydraulic, pneumatic & thermodynamics systems and/or, electrical principals, motors, motor control circuits, motion control, encoders, PLCs, sensors.
• Knowledge of spare parts management systems.
• Knowledge of CMMS.

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

• Competitive salary and job‑related benefits
• Holidays
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies
• On‑the‑job training and development opportunities to further your career.