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Pay Rate: £15.37 per hour Basic Rate
Shift: Days
Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off B Days
Shift Hours: 05:30am-17:15pm
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Newark Industrial Estate NG24 2ER
Transport: Own Transport Required
What you’ll receive.
As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.
You’ll enjoy.
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Competitive salary and job-related benefits
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Holidays
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Pension up to 8% matched
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Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies
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Life insurance up to 4x salary
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Company share save scheme
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Greencore Qualifications
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Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
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Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
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Overtime payment options from x1.25 to x2.00 (Site variances & Ts & Cs apply)
- Free Car Parking
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Free vend hot drinks machines*
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Free or Subsidised Bus Service Available (Ts & Cs apply) *
- Not available at all sites
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.
Why join us?
We’re proud to give our Multi Skilled Technicians the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career within a small and friendly team. We nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards.
We’re ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it’s exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together.
We’re proud to offer you a career with real opportunity.
What we do.
This particular role is at our site based in Newark, Nottinghamshire and specialises in making delicious chilled desserts such as trifles, creamcakes and choux pastries. The site employs over 1,800 people.
About the role.
We manufacture a wide range of high-quality chilled products for our dedicated customers at our sites. Our production lines are non-stop, so you’ll be kept busy creating our products. Working right at the heart of our fast-paced, high-pressured environment, you’ll enjoy plenty of variety, be encouraged to find where your strengths lie and supported to achieve your full potential.
Ensuring safe systems of work as well as CCPs and GMP standards are adhered to. Completing CCP and traceability paperwork and operating machinery. To supervise teams of operatives ranging from 2 – 5 people. To work as part of a team assembling, packing into outer cases and palletising finished goods products.
Multi Skilled Technician - Days duties may include:
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Correctly recording CCP and traceability for finished products manufactured
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Preparing workstations at start of shift ready for production operation to start efficiently
- Collecting and signing equipment/utensils in and out
- Completing and recording employee job rotation as per company policy
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Starting and operating equipment/machinery – checkweighers and metal detectors
- Making reasonable adjustments to line operation to ensure most efficient running
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Ensuring that production line follows and completes production plan
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Act upon decisions made on any exception to product specification and record appropriately
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Undertaking routine food safety, GMP and quality checks and recording in-line with legal and customer requirements
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To act as a workplace buddy for all new employees and assist with the training as required.
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Able to work on the coding line and label room as per business needs
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Supporting trials and preparing sample requests on time when requested from other departments
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Communicating with relevant departments and stakeholders. (Technical, High Risk and Despatch)
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Support in waste and variance projects
- Support in capturing production data on iPads in Redzone, analysing production data and using it to make efficiency and material usage decisions
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Be flexible to move between bays/areas as per production needs
We’re looking for hardworking people, willing to learn and keen to progress. Familiar with the demands of a fast-paced production environment, you’ll have a good understanding of food safety best practice.
About you.
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Previous manufacturing experience is essential
- Previous Team Leader/Supervisory experience is desirable
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Plenty of drive, motivation, and ambition
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Previous experience in Food Safety and Good Manufacturing Practices
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The ability to be hardworking and a good team player
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A keen eye for detail and a good understanding of English and Maths
In return, we’ll offer you the encouragement, support and opportunity to develop your career and take it as far as you can, or as far as you want to go, within our large multinational company.
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.
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 everyday 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.
