Engineering Controller

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. We are a vibrant and fast‑moving business, proudly employing over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and US. Together we bring delicious food to life, covering 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 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 Kiveton employs over 600 and is the UK’s largest quiche bakery, producing more than 42 million quiche each year along with a wide range of ready meals and soups.

• Establish structures, processes and procedures to deliver legislative compliance for the site and consistency in ways of working across all areas, verifying their implementation and compliance using periodic audits.
• Provide leadership and direction to the engineering team to create a culture that keeps people safe, engaged, focused, developed and delivering to their potential while ensuring reliable manufacturing processes that comply with Food Safety and Health and Safety Standards.
• Continuously develop and improve the site asset base through effective planning for and financial justification of capital projects necessary to design, construct and install manufacturing processes that improve efficiency and maintain compliance standards.
• Create and deploy a site engineering strategy, aligned to the Group Greencore Engineering Excellence Vision, supporting the site’s strategic goals and complying with all company and legislative standards.
• Proactively contribute to product development opportunities by applying and sourcing best‑available technology and automation to create efficient and sustainable manufacturing processes that enhance our market position.
• Support the energy reduction and sustainability agenda to reduce environmental impacts across the site by ensuring all actions are completed and the project plan is executed.
• Drive year‑on‑year improvements to deliver higher engineering standards, reducing equipment failures, increasing reliability and uptime, and thereby increasing site capacity.
• Contribute to the site Leadership team as a functional expert and to the Engineering Leadership Team and engineering forums to ensure engineering solutions support delivery of the business plans.

• Relevant degree calibre (e.g., BEng or equivalent) and membership of a recognised professional body – IET/IMechE, ICT/Institute of Mechanical Engineering.
• National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH) certification with sound knowledge of behavioural safety at a site level.
• Knowledge of World Class Manufacturing and Best Practice Maintenance.
• Proven track record of leading an Engineering department with awareness of Legionella Level 8 and HACCP.
• Experience of creating a Lean enterprise culture.
• Ability to set, manage and optimise maintenance budgets.
• Experience in the use and operation of a Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Computer literacy with working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Project Management skills, ideally with some project management certification.
• Experience coaching and mentoring and developing engineers and apprentices.
• Reliability Management expertise (FMECA, RCM, Tribology, CBM, TPM, etc.).

• Competitive salary and job‑related benefits.
• Holidays.
• Competitive matched pension contributions.
• Life insurance up to 4x salary.
• Company shares 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.

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves ether we make every day taste better.