Shift patterns: Wednesday to Sunday 06:00 to 14:30, Saturday - Wednesday 06:00-14:30, Friday to Tuesday 06:00 to 14:30

Pay rate: £15.32 per hour

Location: Unit D, 15-17 Deer Park Road, NN3 6RX, Northampton

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 all machinery is set up and working correctly and ready to use.
• Complete all the necessary compliance paperwork.
• Ensure the blade integrity checks are carried out and that the relevant departments are notified should an issue be highlighted.
• Correctly set up all machinery as and when required (before and at changeovers)
• Follow all compliance controls, risk assessments, and Safe Systems of Work (SSOW) to ensure a safe working environment.
• Ensure that the relevant quality checks are performed and that any issues regarding quality or food safety are raised immediately to the Line Coordinator

What we’re looking for

• A good standard of education; demonstrating good literacy and numeracy skills
• Able to communicate and build rapport at all levels with the team and management
• Practices and understanding in Health & Safety and Food Hygiene
• Able to work under pressure and in cold temperature
• Can work on own initiative and in a team and pays attention to detail

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

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work.If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.