Hygiene Operative - Back Shift

Posted 04 December 2025
Salary TBC
LocationSpalding
Job type Permanent - Full Time
Discipline Technical
Reference045345
Job FunctionOperations
Expiry date 04 February 2026

Job description

Back Shift Sun-Thurs 14:00-22:00

Pay Rate - £15.27  per hour

Why Greencore?

We’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95bn.

Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

We’re a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make every day taste better.  We’re sure you’ve tried our products because we supply food for the all the major supermarkets in the UK!

Here at Spalding, we have a team of around 540 colleagues. We produce coleslaw, potato salad, salad bar bulk products (2kg), pasta salads and couscous/grains for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Morrisons, Co-op, Asda, Aldi, Sainsbury’s, Nando’s and Pizza Hut. Our Spalding site has a restaurant with hot food available to all our colleagues.

What you’ll be doing:

As a Hygiene Operative you be required to undertake all aspects of cleaning all food manufacturing areas, equipment and machinery to meet food hygiene standards. You will be carrying out the consistent application of hygiene within a given area/line to make sure the area is maintained to the agreed standards. It'll be part of your job to ensure that all sanitation processes are completed in full and that hygiene standards for a given area are maintained during the production shift. Some duties include:

  • Carry out Daily Cleaning of all areas of the factory as part of a team
  • To schedule Deep cleaning of large machinery
  • Wearing full PPE such as : Chemical suit, Visor, Wellingtons, Gloves and Safety goggles
  • Working in Chilled and Hot environments
  • Filling out Paperwork to document the cleans
  • Promote good health and safety culture within the work place
  • Use of/ and storage of chemicals
  • Reporting of any damaged equipment or machinery.

What we’re looking for:

Anybody is able to do this role as training and education will be provided. Previous experience is an advantage but not a necessity. A basic understanding of English, both verbal and written is a must. Any background with COSHH and HACCP is highly advantageous but not a necessity. At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better. 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:

  • Holidays
  • Pension
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Employee appreciation events
  • Company share save scheme
  • Greencore Qualifications
  • Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
  • Canteen
  • Onsite staff shop
  • Free onsite car park

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.

#GREENCOREFOODFORLATER