Overview

Why Greencore?
We’re a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better.
We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 13,300 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 FY24, we generated revenues of £1.8bn.
Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,500 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.
What you’ll be doing
To provide technical expertise and lead the deployment of engineering-based strategies and solutions across the Greencore estate in order to improve energy efficiency, compliance and the long-term delivery of our sustainability goals
  • Data insights – lead the Automated Monitoring & Targeting (AM&T) roadmap across the group including metering, data acquisition and energy monitoring systems
  • Big Projects – co-ordinate energy resource plans to deliver step change projects (e.g Solar) across the group
  • Behaviours & Culture Change – supporting the adoption of energy conversation across the group providing the necessary communication, leadership and direction to ensure that colleagues are kept engaged, focused, developed and delivering their potential
  • Lead the alignment and integration of the group energy roadmap across multiple sites and at site level, collaborating with other functional leads
  • Lead the implementation and the close-out of ESOS 3 (20203) actions, ensuring all benefits are tracked
  • External networking – provide insight to the latest technology developments in energy efficient plant/equipment
  • Identify, prioritise and create capex proposals to maintain and develop the site infrastructure in line with Business Team/Group strategic objectives
What we’re looking for
We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make everyday taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.
  • Hold a relevant degree or postgraduate qualification in environmental engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, environmental management science or similar
  • Be a Member of a recognised professional body – EI / IET/IMechE / Energy Institute
  • Substantial utilities and systems-optimisation experience across water, waste and energy
  • Have familiarity with Energy Management Systems and other site performance monitoring systems to aggregate multiple data[1]sources
  • Familiarity with Environmental / Energy Management Systems, ideally ISO140001 and ISO 50001
  • Experience in Environmental and Energy reporting, legislation and compliance requirements
  • Familiarity with energy technologies
  • Ability to drive and manage change process
  • Have demonstrable experience of the value of (smart) metering and cloud-based technologies as the basis for performance improvements, both direct (e.g. energy savings) and indirect (e.g. improvement maintenance, reduced downtime, increased production quality & yield)
  • Possess strong analytical abilities and attention to detail
  • Have a secure knowledge of environmental issues relevant to air emissions, water, wastewater, waste, hazardous chemicals
  • Proven track record of operating at a group management level within a food manufacturing environment/high care environment/other appropriate manufacturing environment
  • Project Management skills
  • Contractor Management
  • Experience in dealing with Environmental Agency
  • Ability to complete report writing etc
  • Food hygiene accreditation
  • MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint)
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
  • Pension up to 8% matched
  • Life insurance up to 4x salary
  • Company shares save scheme
  • Greencore Qualifications
  • Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
  • Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
  • Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies
  • Car Allowance
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.


Permanent – Full-Time
Salary: Negotiable
Location: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, S80 2RS

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