Proud to deliver high quality products and develop high quality careers!
Pay Rate: £13.87 per hour Basic Rate
Shift: Days
Shift Pattern: 3'S & 2'S
Shift Hours: 06.00 - 18.00
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Old Leake PE22 9PN
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.
Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies
Life insurance up to 4x salary
Company share save scheme
Greencore Qualifications
Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
Overtime payment options from x1.25 to x2.00 (Site variances & Ts & Cs apply)
Free Car Parking
Free vend hot drinks machines*
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 Hygiene Operatives 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 proud of our caring culture, loyal colleagues and future focus. But, most of all, we’re proud to enable and empower everyone to believe, achieve and succeed.
We’re proud to offer you a career with real opportunity.
What we do.
This particular role is at our site based in Old Leake just outside Boston, Lincolnshire and specialises in making chilled Italian ready meals and modern deli products for a dedicated customer. The site employs around 700 people.
About the role.
We manufacture a wide range of high-quality fresh prepared food. And, although our production lines are fast-paced and high-pressured, our cleaning schedule means that the lines will always stop completely for you to clean them.
So, from a full deep clean which will involve taking machinery apart and using chemicals, to routine regular cleans, you’ll keep everything spotless, signed off and maintained to the highest standards.
Always ensuring these duties are completed in line with Company policies and standard operating procedures, including PPE, Food Safety, Health and Safety, ‘clean as you go’ and ‘Good Manufacturing Practices’.
Hygiene Operative - Days duties may include:
Safe and effective use of cleaning chemicals in accordance with COSHH regulations
Able to safely strip and clean basic equipment and machinery, escalating any issues in a timely fashion to the correct individuals
Cleaning dollies, eurobins and other equipment coming through traywash
Loading and operating the cardboard bailer and/or compactor
It can be complicated and physically challenging stuff. Especially with audit requirements and customer expectations to exceed, as our hygiene team is essential for Greencore to maintain expected standards of our products, and hit audit scores in line with customer expectations.
About you.
Plenty of drive, motivation, and ambition
The desire to learn about Food Safety and Good Manufacturing Practices
Ideally, you will have a good understanding of food safety best practice
The willingness to wear PPE
The ability to be hardworking and a good team player
A keen eye for detail and a basic understanding of English and Maths
Fit and able to carry out duties in line with OH requirements
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.
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