Overview
Maintenance Manager – Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S26 5PF
Permanent – Full-Time
Salary: Negotiable
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.
Our site in **Kiveton **employs over 500 and is the UK’s largest quiche bakery, producing more than 42 million quiche each year along with a wide range of ready meals.
What You’ll Be Doing
As Maintenance Manager at Kiveton you will report directly to the Engineering Controller. Our team at Kiveton has a wide range of backgrounds and skills, and we are ideally looking for someone from a multiskilled background with an electrical bias. Your responsibilities will include, but not limited to:
- Designing and executing the maintenance schedule to maximise asset availability
- Providing leadership and direction to ensure that colleagues are kept safe, engaged, focused, developed and delivering their potential
- Maintaining the planned preventive maintenance systems to enable proactive maintenance whilst balancing risk
- Monitoring departmental key performance indicators, aligning activity to ensure targets are achieved
- Applying an appropriate asset management maintenance strategy to optimise asset performance through the life cycle
- Developing a culture of continuous improvement within the engineering department
What We’re Looking For
At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.
As Maintenance Manager, you will ideally have:
- Experience of operating at engineering management level within a food manufacturing environment or FMCG
- Project management skills and an understanding of budgetary management
- Experience and understanding of Microsoft and computerised maintenance management system
- OSH certified with a food hygiene accreditation
- Experience of leading a diverse workforce
- Experience of contributing to a multi-functional operational management team
- Experienced in report writing
- Ideally qualified to an Engineering HNC level or equivalent industrial experience
- Maintenance management expertise (FMGCA, RCM, Tribology, CBH)
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
- Competitive matched pension contributions
- 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.
We reserve the right to close this advertisement before the stated closing date.
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