Nights - Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, - 16:00pm to 04:00am (after 6 weeks rotates to Wednesday, Thursday, Friday for a further 6 weeks)
Pay Rate - £15.62ph per hour rising to £18.07ph upon successful completion of training
(Over time is after 36 hours a week at time and a quarter)
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
Here at Selby, we employ a team over 750 colleagues. A site steeped in history; we are the UK’s number one manufacturer of customer private label cooking sauces and pickles. We have been serving our customers out of our Selby site since 1914. We produce more than 160 million units per year across 600 different product lines for customers such as Morrisons, Tesco & Asda.
What you'll be doing
- Responsibility for all aspects of Health and Safety in the sauce cooking weighing area.
- Lead, manage and control personnel/ team) in conjunction with the Area Process Leaders (s) (including Absence, Discipline and Grievance).
- Improve communication to department on KPI achievements in conjunction with Area Process Leaders.
- Support the delivery of finished sauces to filling production line on time, in full to the agreed customer specifications.
- Improve on non-right first time by ensuring recipes are manufactured to the Standard Operating Procedure.
- Work with the Ensure sauce cooking labour is fully trained, capable and available to run planned production requirements for the dedicated production filling lines.
- Adhere to housekeeping standard through 5S process. (once training provided)
- Adhere to Good Manufacturing Practices for area.
- Ensure internal suppliers/customer relationships and information flows are improved to support Area Process Leaders.
- Ensure Cooks, Operatives and Drivers adhere to production schedule.
- Minimise product wastage.
- Ensure consistent and clear communication of department status at shift changeover.
- Identify and deliver Material Variance Analysis improvement projects.
Key activities
- Working closely with Area Process Leader to meet production plan.
- Adhering to Food Manufacturing Safety and Quality Standards.
- Ensuring adequate skills are trained to Cooks, Operatives and Drivers.
- Reporting any deficiencies to Area Process Leaders (s).
- Ensure there are Cooks and Operatives for each filling line to support the Area Process Leaders.
- Lead, motivate and support team to meet production performance requirements.
- Support implementation of Lean Manufacturing Techniques to sauce cooking and weighing areas.
- Reduce material losses through correct delivery of bulk batched materials.
- Regular communication of performance and KPI’s for your area of responsibilities.
- Liaising directly with Area Process Leaders on cooking schedule to meet the production plan.
- Liaising directly with Raw Materials and testing laboratory to ensure efficient testing and problem resolution for release of sauce batches to filling lines.
- Assist is New Product Development trials
- Support department during all audits (internal & external)
- Support Marko weighing system.
What we are looking for
- Minimum GCSE level (or equivalent) in English and Maths
- Food Safety Level 2 (training can be provided)
- Health & Safety Level 2 (training can be provided)
- In depth knowledge of ingredient functionalities and cooking process methods.
- Knowledge of food safety and basic labelling legislation.
- Experience in food manufacturing.
- Excellent communicator at all levels with strong interpersonal skills.
- Ability to challenge and drive business improvement.
- Proven track record of people management – desired, but not essential.
- Motivational leader and strong people manager – desired, but not essential.
We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day 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.
What you’ll get in return
- Competitive salary and job-related benefits
- Holidays
- Pension competitively 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
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.
