Factory Team Leader - Nights

FAQs; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holidays

Life insurance

Pension contributions (matched)

Enhanced parental leave

Employee share save scheme

WellbeingCentre platform

Overtime payments (1.25x–2x)

Car parking

Drinks vending machines

Bus service subsidies

Job summary

Greencore is recruiting a Factory Team Leader for the Nights shift at our Bourne site near Peterborough. You will oversee production lines, coach the night team and ensure GMP compliance in a fast-paced environment.

This role emphasizes safety, quality, and continuous improvement, with on-the-job training and genuine progression opportunities within a large multinational company.

Qualifications

• Previous manufacturing experience is essential.
• Previous Team Leader/Supervisory experience is desirable.
• Plenty of drive, motivation, and ambition.
• Previous experience in Food Safety and Good Manufacturing Practices.
• The ability to be hardworking and a good team player.
• A keen eye for detail and a good understanding of English and Maths.

Responsibilities

• Encourage a safe working environment and enforce Health & Safety standards.
• Ensure GMP, food safety, product quality and housekeeping.
• Manage performance and attendance including disciplinary action and reviews.
• Coach and train operatives in health & safety and quality standards.
• Manage improvement activities including KPIs, waste and production control.
• Co-ordinate breaks and shift changeover to maintain productivity.

Skills

Manufacturing experience

Team Leader

English & Maths literacy

Drive & Ambition

Job description

Location: Peterborough, PE1 1HF We rise to challenges together! Pay Rate: £17.43 per hour Basic Rate Shift: Nights Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off Shift Hours: 19:30 - 07:30 Job Type: Permanent Location: Bourne PE10 0AT Transport: Own Transport Required

What you’ll receive.

• 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 Team Leaders 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 Bourne and specialises in preparing fruit, leafy salads, and stir fry mixes. It employs over 1,200 people and is only 16 miles from Peterborough and 12 miles from Spalding.

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.

Factory Team Leader - Nights duties may include:

• To encourage a safe working environment for all employees in their area by supporting and enforcing standards as set out in the Group Health and Safety policy.
• Ensure team are performing to quality standards in terms of GMP, food safety, product quality and presentation and housekeeping.
• Manage performance and attendance of the team including first level formal written disciplinary action, performance review, absence management (including return to work procedures)
• Ensure that operatives are coached and trained in all aspects of their role, including health and safety and food safety standards and quality procedures.
• Manage improvement activities including KPIs, waste management and production control processes and associated administration and record keeping.
• Ensure that their team are correctly deployed and are performing to standards in adherence to the plan.
• Manage breaks and the shift changeover process to ensure it does not disrupt productivity and workflow.
• Ensure mechanisms are in place and supported to provide effective communication, upwards, downwards and sideways.
• In conjunction with HR participate in staff recruitment processes and induction.
• Carry out necessary administrative tasks and produce data / reports as required including DWOR, T&A, holiday management and any other relevant data.

About you

• Previous manufacturing experience is essential
• Previous Team Leader/Supervisory experience is desirable
• Plenty of drive, motivation, and ambition
• Previous experience in Food Safety and Good Manufacturing Practices
• 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.

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.