Manufacturing Shift Manager

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.

Here at Northampton, we operate one of the most impressive facilities in Europe, based across a campus of 5 manufacturing units, and we have a team of around 2,000 colleagues making high quality premium products every day. We are the sole supplier of sandwiches, wraps, rolls and sushi for Marks & Spencer.

As Manufacturing Shift Manager on nights you will lead colleagues and manage all aspects of the manufacturing operation for the day shift ensuring that agreed production plans are met and all manufacturing standards are adhered to.

Shift: Sunday to Thursday, 22:00 - 06:30 (Saturday Night - Thursday Morning)

What you'll be doing

Lead, co-ordinate and prioritise activity across a shift to deliver productivity and efficiency targets in line with the agreed production plan
Ensure the adherence of all food manufacturing safety and quality standards by all teams on shift safeguarding the delivery of great tasting, high quality food products
Review operational trends across the shift to identify and act upon opportunities that make sustainable improvements in quality, performance and profit
Lead the ongoing development of the health and safety culture, promoting adherence to manufacturing guidelines, accident investigation and audit recommendations to support and improve health and safety in the working environment
Ensure that communication and information channels are maintained within the operations team to ensure that immediate issues are resolved, and ongoing items and trends are shared with the broader operations community
Forecast and control labour requirements, direct and indirect, to meet production programme requirements and customer expectations within budget
Monitor and review team capability, ensuring all colleagues are clearly focused on their key objectives and developed to maximise their potentialWhat we're looking for
We're proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.

Must be able to work nights
Experience of managing large numbers of people in a complex manufacturing environment
Prior experience of leading a team and resource planning in a people intensive, manufacturing/FMCG environment
Demonstrable analytical skills - ability to pull actionable insight from data
Hold key qualifications such as advanced food hygiene accreditation, HACCP level 3 qualification and Level 3 Health and Safety - IOSHIf 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 platformThroughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career