Shift Pattern: Friday to Tuesday from 06:00 - 14:30

Pay: Competitive

Role: FTC (6-9 months)

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

• Ensure the production line complies with all relevant technical, operational, legal, and company procedures.

• Support the line in maintaining the highest standards of product safety, quality, and legality, including compliance with HACCP and current legislation.

• Work in line with the site’s management systems and the company quality manual.

• Verify that products are manufactured in a safe, legal, and compliant manner through sampling, testing, auditing, and monitoring.

• Escalate quality or safety issues and ensure corrective actions are taken where non-conformance is identified.

• Conduct verification checks to ensure equipment is correctly calibrated.

• Complete and maintain all required quality and technical documentation, ensuring audit readiness at all times.

• Carry out LCM 3% compliance checks.

• Complete line technical records, including weight check sheets.

• Verify correct production methods are followed and that product specifications and QAS documents are in use on the line.

• Complete and record on-line quality taste panels.

• Verify that all materials coming to the line meet legal, safety, and quality requirements, including - shelf life, temperature, traceability, labeling, product and material weights and visual appearance

• Ensure allergen segregation procedures are followed for raw materials from receipt, during use, and on return to Prep.

• Complete process confirmation activities for allergen and non-allergen cleans.

• Support the production line in adherence to Critical Control Points (CCPs).

• Collect all required samples in line with approved procedures and protocols.

• Monitor processes and products to ensure ongoing quality, safety, and legality.

• Maintain clear and ongoing communication with the operations team and relevant departments, sharing quality results, trends, and findings.

• Provide training and education to operational colleagues to ensure understanding and compliance with technical standards.

• Support the Line Controller in challenging colleague compliance with GMP and personal hygiene standards, including PPE uses

• Ensure a safe working environment for all colleagues, meeting safety, health, and environmental policy standards.

• Support the line with the collection and return of correct production and cleaning tools.

• Assist with appropriate product and equipment handling on the line

What we’re looking for

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.

• GCSE or equivalent; numerate and literate

• Basic computer skills

• Health & Safety Level 2

• Food Hygiene Level 2

• CCP/HACCP knowledge for manufacturing

• GMP knowledge and techniques

• Allergen awareness and risk understanding

• Internal audit experience

• Non-conformance reporting skills

• Microbiological awareness & food safety basics

• Basic disinfection principles

• Knowledge of legal labelling and weight legislation

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future. 

What you’ll get in return 

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• 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

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