Packing Line Leader
- Posted 13 November 2025
- Salary £14.30
- LocationWarrington
- Job type Permanent - Full Time
- Discipline Production
- Reference044184
- Job FunctionOperations
- Expiry date 11 December 2025
Job description
Shift Pattern: 4 on/ 4 off, 05:30am – 17:10pm
Pay Rate: £14.30 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, soups, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY24, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.8bn.
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.
Our Warrington site is also known as the Italian centre of excellence, recent expansion and investment make this site a state-of-the-art manufacturing unit! We produce high quality Italian ready meals for both Tesco & Co-Op.
What you'll be doing
Working within an exciting and fast paced environment, you will be a key member of our high risk team and will ensure the service we provide to our customer is of exceptional quality. The role can be physically demanding with a good amount of pushing, pulling and lifting involved.
Task will involve:
* Work as part of a team in a chilled and noisy environment.
* Leading a team of people to achieve daily productions goals
* Using initiative for problem solving, escalating appropriately
* You will be required to follow instructions
* Work unsupervised, completing compliance checks
* Have a keen eye for detail, and in order to ensure a right first-time approach
* Working with manufacturing equipment
* This role involves standing for long periods of time, working in chilled environment and wear personal protective equipment
* Receive deliveries from suppliers and check goods off against the delivery note
* Check all goods into order wise system as a priority
* Be familiar with all products and locations in the warehouse
* Report shortages to manager immediately
* Be aware of minimum and maximum stock levels
* Ensure returned items are recorded correctly to ensure correct stock levels.
What we're looking for
* Hold valid FLT Reach truck licence
* You will be a confident and clear communicator with the ability to engage, influence and motivate others, and enjoy working with people and teams
* A commitment to not only self-development but also multi skilling and developing others in your team
* A basic understanding and appreciation of health and safety and environmental practices and processes
* An understanding of the changing demands and pace of a manufacturing process
* Experience having worked to deliver a production plan, meet key performance indicators, and also implement improvements
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
* 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
* Free car parking
* Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.
Please note due to high numbers of applications this role maybe closed before the posted closing date.