Job Role: Kitchen Assistant (12 week FTC)

Location: Boston

Why Greencore?

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.

We work hard to ensure that Greencore is a great place to work, and our people truly are at the core. We’re committed to ensuring all our colleagues have development plans and strive to provide inspiring leadership – in fact, in the past year we’ve seen an 11% increase in the number of colleagues who would recommend Greencore as a place to work.

Join us and be part of our great team!

We have a position available at our Selby site for a Kitchen Assistant to join our NPD team in Boston.

As Kitchen Assistant you will complete food preparation, stock management and cleaning duties in order to maximise the efficiency of the Product Development team.

Key responsibilities:

• Coordinate ordering of ingredients, packaging and kitchen supplies to ensure stock is rotated and waste is kept to a minimum
• Clean and maintain kitchen and presentation equipment for the development area maintaining a clean as you go culture in line with kitchen ways of working
• Ensure food preparation is completed to support the Chef
• Buy ingredient supplies and benchmark samples when required
• Where relevant plan and manage sample making, communicating, and updating progress each day and escalating any issues to line manager
• Test recipes to ensure that they meet required technical parameters (TSS, PH, SG, Viscosity)
• Accurate labelling of products and boxing of samples to be sent externally

What We’re Looking For:

• Qualified to Food Safety Level 2 standard is essential
• An understanding of the restaurant market with some experience of working in a fast-paced kitchen environment

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

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• 25 days Holiday plus bank holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• 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 developme