Maintenance Engineer
Job description
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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.
Here at Bow, we have a team of around 800 colleagues. We produce sandwiches, wraps, platters, sub rolls and salads for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Sainsbury's, Co-op, Asda, Morrisons and BP Wild Bean Café.
What You'll Be Doing
Are you an experienced multiskilled maintenance engineer from an FMCG/Food background looking for a new challenge?
As one of our highly skilled maintenance engineers you will be responsible for:
- Carrying out fault finding, problem solving and planned and preventative maintenance on plant equipment to maximise equipment reliability and performance
- Responding to internal customer needs to maximise production time according to given priorities
- Complying with food safety standards and controls to ensure all work is carried out correctly and safely
- Completing all necessary documentation ensuring that it is kept accurate and is audit ready
- Identify and recommend opportunities for improvements to promote Health & Safety and/or operational efficiency and effectiveness
- Maintenance on a range of manufacturing/production/packaging machinery
Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off - rotating days and nights
What We're Looking For
People who have experience operating as an engineer, following a completed accredited apprenticeship or equivalent experience with appropriate Level 3 qualification
As one of our maintenance engineers you will
- Be an apprentice trained engineer with a relevant qualifications
- Have experience working as a Maintenance Engineer within manufacturing/FMCG or similar
- Utilise a proactive approach, with a willingness to learn and develop
- Have experience in electrical and mechanical fault finding
We're not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity. If this sounds like you join us, 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 contributions
- Company share save scheme
- Greencore Qualifications
- Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
- Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.
Key skills
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⭐ Highlight your Level 3 engineering qualification and completed apprenticeship at the top of your CV as these are specifically mentioned as requirements
📊 Quantify your maintenance achievements: 'Reduced equipment downtime by 25% through proactive fault finding on packaging lines'
🍽️ Emphasise any FMCG or food manufacturing experience as Greencore specifically seeks candidates from this background
🔧 Detail your experience with both electrical and mechanical fault finding as the role requires multiskilled capabilities
📋 Showcase your documentation and audit compliance experience as maintaining accurate, audit-ready records is explicitly required
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- •Reduced equipment downtime by 30% through proactive fault finding and preventative maintenance on 8 packaging lines in FMCG facility
- •Maintained food safety compliance across 12 production machines, achieving 100% audit pass rate over 18 months
- •Completed electrical and mechanical repairs on manufacturing equipment, supporting 24/7 production schedule for 600-person facility
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Greencore's position as a leading convenience food creator following the Bakkavor combination presents exactly the FMCG manufacturing challenge I seek as a Maintenance Engineer. Your Bow facility's production of sandwiches and wraps for major retailers like Sainsbury's and Asda requires the electrical and mechanical fault finding expertise I have developed through my apprenticeship training.
My background in FMCG manufacturing has equipped me with the multiskilled approach essential for maintaining packaging and production equipment while ensuring food safety compliance. I understand the critical importance of maximising equipment reliability to support your 800-strong team in delivering fresh products to thousands of stores daily.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›Describe your approach to fault finding on packaging machinery when production is down
- ›How do you prioritise preventative maintenance tasks when production demands are high?
- ›What electrical safety procedures do you follow when working on live food manufacturing equipment?
- ›Explain how you would diagnose a mechanical fault on a sandwich wrapping machine
- ›How do you ensure your maintenance work complies with food safety standards?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you identified an improvement opportunity that enhanced operational efficiency
- ›Describe a situation where you had to respond quickly to minimise production downtime
- ›Give an example of when you had to learn a new piece of equipment or technology
- ›Tell me about a time you had to work under pressure to meet production deadlines
- ›Describe how you ensure accurate documentation while working on urgent maintenance tasks
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Tell me about a time you identified an improvement opportunity that enhanced operational efficiency
Describe a situation where you had to respond quickly to minimise production downtime