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.

Here at Selby we employ a team over 750 colleagues. A site steeped in history, we are the UK’s number one manufacturer of customer private label cooking sauces and pickles. We have been serving our customers out of our Selby site since 1914.

We produce more than 160 million units per year across 600 different product lines for customers such as Morrisons, Tesco & Asda.

This role is a 6 month fixed-term contract.

What you’ll be doing

As Control Systems Engineer / Automation Systems Engineer, you will report to the Automation and Systems Manager providing support to the factory resolving automation issues, design and deliver automation projects and be a key member of CAPEX project teams to ensure automation standards are met at design stage through to project completion. Providing support in electrical trouble shooting and support of electrical design for systems.

Key responsibilities:

• Management of the sites PLC networks, hardware and software.
•  Automation Technical support and training to Technicians and Engineers.
•  Electrical Technical support to Technicians and Engineers.
•  Delivery of CAPEX project works from an Electrical & Automation prospective.
•  MES/ Automation/ FAS gap analysis compliance.
•  Ensure safe installations and operations through proper design, protection systems and procedures (Electrical and Automation Systems).

What we’re looking for

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 and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

To be successful in this key role we expect you to ideally have experience working in a manufacturing maintenance environment and have strong service orientation amongst internal stakeholders with lots of proactive initiative and attention to detail.

• Ideally HNC/ Degree in control systems or Automation discipline.
• Detailed Knowledge of PC, PLC, Database and SCADA Systems.
• PLC and HMI Programming.
• Rockwell Automation equipment (Allen-Bradley)
• Wonderware InTouch development.
• Software development including FAS, PLC and HMI.
• Data Transfer, communication and networking systems.
• Strong and highly developed electrical and automation fault finding and problem analysis.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work on own initiative and implement CAPEX projects.
• Apprentice Trained Electrical Engineer

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 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.