Company: Bakkavor
Location: London
Job Description:
Overview
In this maintenance engineer role at Greencore, you’ll safeguard and optimise food and drink processing and packaging assets to keep production smooth and safe. You will work closely with operations to diagnose faults, perform repairs, and drive continuous improvement across equipment performance. The position supports a fast-paced, high-volume site and offers development opportunities within a large, merged food company. A strong focus on reliability, safety, and efficiency underpins your daily impact.
Pay / Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Company share save scheme
- Competitive matched pension contributions
- Life insurance up to 4x salary
- Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
- Wellbeing Centre platform
Responsibilities
- Prepare and carry out maintenance on processing and packaging equipment
- Conduct planned and predictive maintenance to optimise performance and prevent downtime
- Respond to breakdowns with repairs or corrective actions
- Diagnose and resolve electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, automation, and pneumatic faults
- Support changeovers, set-ups, and adjustments
- Manufacture or repair component parts to maintain reliability
- Contribute to continuous improvement projects and technical reviews
- Maintain accurate maintenance documentation and safe equipment
- Mentor team members and support audits for safety and quality
Key requirements
- Level 2 Maths/English
- recognised Engineering Apprenticeship (C&G/EAL NVQ 3/4 or OAL FDEM)
- IET Wiring Regs (first-year), 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
- problem-solving
- communication
- teamwork
- hydraulics
- pneumatics
- motors
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Posted: October 1st, 2026