Jobs in Long Stratton

Shift Patter: Thursday to Monday, 06:00 - 14:30
Pay Rate: Competitive
Please Note: This role is for Maternity cover and is a FTC until 30th May 2027

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.

What you'll be doing

Promote a positive health, safety and environmental culture within the team, that complies with procedures, accident investigation, corrective actions and completes near miss reporting, behavioral observations, to promote a safe working environment
Continuously monitor all operational processes and the overall production environment to ensure that activity complies with food safety manufacturing standards
Deliver area operational productivity and efficiency targets, resolving problems and issues as they arise, ensuring delivery of daily output plan
Review operational trends within area to identify and act on opportunities that make sustainable improvements to increase quality, performance and/or profit in support of the shift operational plan
Monitor and review team capability, ensuring all staff are clearly focused on their key objectives and developed to maximize their potential
Monitor the effectiveness of machinery and equipment through pre-starts and observations, highlighting trends and issues to ensure asset performance is consistent and reliable
Engage with the team ensuring maximum satisfaction, motivation and well being.What we're looking for

A good standard of education, demonstrates good literacy and numerical skills
An experienced communicator able to communicate and report proficiently in English
Experience of operating as a team leader within an FMCG environment
Holds a basic Food Hygiene accreditation and a basic Food Safety accreditation
Good problem-solving skills and experience of using lean practices to resolve production issues or enhance performance
Previous experience of directing and motivating a diverse workforce and leading a team to deliver superlative resultsWe'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. 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
Competitive matched pension contributions
Employee awards and long service awards
Accredited Greencore qualifications, learning and development opportunities.
Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform where you can receive discounts on retail, travel, and more.
Access to a full Well-being Centre platformThroughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career