Site Engineering Manager

at  Greencore Group

WHY GREENCORE?

We’re a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make every day.
We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.
Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.
Here in Consett, we have a team of around 280 colleagues. We produce a range of chilled ready meals for some of the UK’s leading retailers, including Co-op, Sainsbury’s and Weight Watchers.

Are you an experienced engineering site lead with strong people management and leadership skills? Are you looking for a new challenge in the food industry?
We are looking for a Site Engineering Manager to join our Senior Leadership Team, reporting into the General Manager, and lead our engineering team at Consett. Your team will include a Maintenance Manager, Facilities Engineers, Shift Engineers and apprentices.

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Providing leadership and direction to the engineering team to create a culture which ensures that people are kept safe, engaged, focused, developed and delivering to their potential while providing reliable manufacturing processes that comply with Food Safety and Health and Safety Standards
• Establishing structures, processes and procedures which will deliver legislative compliance for the site and consistency in ways of working across all areas and verify their implementation and compliance using periodic audits
• Continuously develop and improve the site asset base through effective planning for and financial justification of the capital projects necessary to design, construct and install manufacturing processes which improve efficiency and maintain compliance standards
• Proactively contribute to product development opportunities by applying and sourcing the best available technology and automation to create efficient and sustainable manufacturing process which will enhance our market position
• Creating and deploying a site engineering strategy, aligned to the Group Greencore Engineering Excellence Vision which supports the site’s strategic goals and is compliant with all company and legislative standards
• Contributing 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