Proud to deliver high quality products and develop high quality careers!
Pay Rate: £13.83 - £14.23 per hour Basic Rate
Shift: Days
Shift Pattern: 4 on 2 off
Shift Hours: 06:00 - 16:00
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Pike Road Industrial Estate CT15 4NL
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 Skilled Factory 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 constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. We believe in fuelling ambition and guiding success. In supporting everyone with talent and drive to own what they do, realise their potential and build a brilliant future for themselves at Greencore.
We’re proud to offer you a career with real opportunity.
What we do.
This particular role is at our site in Tilmanstone, based near Dover in Kent. The site employs around 850 people and produces millions of bags of leafy salads and prepared vegetables for a dedicated customer. It is only 8 miles from Dover.
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.
Whether you are a machine operative, mixing operative, technician, QCs or key operative, you’ll always focus on safety, speed and accuracy. Using your previous experience in a manufacturing environment, you’ll always aim to deliver high-quality in a right first-time environment.
Skilled Factory Operative - Days duties may include:
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.
Plenty of drive, motivation, and ambition
Previous manufacturing experience is essential
Good attention to detail and organisation skills
The desire to learn about Food Safety and Good Manufacturing Practices
The willingness to wear PPE
The ability to be hardworking and a good team player
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.
