Prep Operative - Yellow
- Posted 16 November 2025
- Salary £13.19/hour
- LocationLondon
- Job type Permanent - Full Time
- Discipline Production Management
- Reference044309
- Job FunctionOperations
- Expiry date 07 December 2025
Job description
Shift Pattern/ Time: 4 on 4 off (Yellow Shift), 18:00 - 06:00
Rate: £13.19/hour
Location: Greencore Bow, Twelvetrees Crescent, London E3 3JG
(Please note this is a full-time role only)
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.
Here at Bow, we have a team of around 1000 colleagues. We produce sandwiches, wraps, platters, sub rolls and baguettes for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Sainsbury’s, Co-op, Asda, Morrisons.
We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.
What you’ll be doing:
- You will be an essential part of production, working in the busy preparation area ensuring the ingredients are prepared to the highest quality and standards
- Working as part of the high-risk team preparing raw materials and ingredients to be used to make the products
- This is a physical role that requires some heavy lifting and manual handling
- Food prep and handling experience desirable
What we are looking for:
- Good level of numeracy and literacy skills both verbal and written
- Has a keen eye for detail and can demonstrate working in a safe manner and to good H&S practices
- Able to follow management instructions and procedures
- Able to liaise and communicate with other departments
- Basic Awareness and understanding of Food, Health, and Safety
- Ability to work under pressure and flexible
What you’ll get in return:
- Competitive salary and job-related benefits
- Pension up to 8% matched
- 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 Wellbeing Centre platform
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.
Please note that due to high numbers of applications, this role may be closed before the posted closing date.