Bakery & Cooling Room Operative - Days

FAQs; Newark on Trent; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Holidays

Pension contributions

Life insurance

Company share save scheme

Greencore qualifications

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre access

Free car parking

Bus service available

Job summary

Greencore operates a Newark site producing chilled desserts such as trifles and cakes. You will join a fast-paced production team, contributing to high standards and consistent quality.

The role requires reliability, willingness to learn, and teamwork, with on-site training and the opportunity for career progression within a large multinational company.

Qualifications

• Plenty of drive, motivation and ambition.
• Desire to learn about Food Safety and Good Manufacturing Practices.
• Willingness to wear PPE.
• Hardworking and a good team player.
• Keen eye for detail and basic English and maths.

Responsibilities

• Manufacture and pack chilled desserts on our Newark site.
• Maintain clean and safe working practices in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

Drive & motivation

Food safety awareness

PPE compliance

Team player

Attention to detail

Job description

Location: Bakkavor Desserts Newark, Jessop Way, Newark Industrial Estate, Newark, NG24 2ER

Pay Rate: £13.24 per hour Basic Rate

Shift: Days

Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off B Days

Shift Hours: 06:00am-18:00pm

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Newark Industrial Estate NG24 2ER

Transport: Own Transport Required

What you’ll receive

You’ll enjoy.

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• 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 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 a family and that’s what families do. We champion each other, support each other and help each other to grow and improve. A place of safety, stability and belonging, we put a protective arm around everyone and, when we see talent or potential, we give it a leg up. Finding ways for everyone, whatever their circumstances or background, to develop, progress and become the best they can be.

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.

About you.

• Plenty of drive, motivation, and ambition
• 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 basic 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.

Greencore and its recruitment partners never charge candidates any fees at any stage of the hiring process. Any request for payment relating to a job opportunity should be considered fraudulent.