Shift available: Friday to Tuesday from 08:00 - 16:30

Pay rate: £14.28/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.

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 

• Sample, test, and monitor to verify that all processes, procedures and products are being manufactured in a safe and compliant manner.
• Collect scheduled raw material samples on intake for organoleptical checks (appearance, taste and odour), to ensure quality, safety and legality of products sampled.
• Escalation of raw material non-compliance in a timely manner to the appropriate manager.
• Conduct verification checks to ensure equipment is suitably calibrated to comply with required standards.
• Complete all necessary documentation/assessments ensuring that it is kept accurate and ready for internal and external audits and highlighting when non-conformance requires corrective action.
• Maintain ongoing communications with the stakeholders and suppliers ensuring they are fully aware of quality assurance activities, results, and trends.
• Ensure that a safe working environment exists for all colleagues and that as a minimum the department meets the standards set out in the Health Safety and Environment policy.

What we’re looking for

• Basic understanding of allergen awareness and related risks

• Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) techniques

• Ability to use basic computer programs, including Microsoft Office

• Understanding of non-conformance reporting procedures

• Strong attention to detail

• Good level of written and spoken English

• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively and with flexibility

Please note:
Due to the nature of our production environment and the wide range of raw materials handled on-site, this role may not be suitable for individuals with food allergies or strict dietary restrictions. We work with a variety of allergens, and our facility includes products containing pork, chicken, turkey, beef, fish, and prawns. Additionally, we do not offer halal meat options.

What you’ll get in return 

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits

• Holiday entitlement

• Pension up to 8% matched

• Company shares save scheme

• Greencore Qualifications and apprenticeship programs

• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform on various outlets

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make everyday taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity. If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success. Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.