Line Coordinator - Days

Our Vacancies; Northampton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturer in Northampton is seeking a Team Leader to oversee production activities. The role requires strong leadership skills, basic Food Hygiene and Safety certifications, and experience in an FMCG environment. The successful candidate will promote safety culture, drive operational efficiency, and engage with team members to enhance performance and morale. Competitive salary and benefits offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pension up to 8% matched

Employee discounts

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Good standard of education required.
• Experience in FMCG environment preferred.
• Ability to lead and motivate a team.

Responsibilities

• Promote safety and environmental culture.
• Monitor production processes for compliance.
• Engage with the team to optimize performance.

Skills

Good literacy and numerical skills

Experienced communicator

Problem-solving skills

Team leadership experience

Using lean practices

Education

Basic Food Hygiene accreditation

Basic Food Safety accreditation

Job description

Shift pattern:Friday - Tuesday 05:00-13:30

Pay rate: Competitive

Why Greencore?

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 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95bn.

Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Here atNorthampton, we operate one of the most impressive facilities in Europe, based across a campus of 5 manufacturing units, and we have a team of around 2,000 colleagues making high quality premium products every day . We are the sole supplier of sandwiches, wraps, rolls and sushi for Marks & Spencer.

What you'll be doing -

• Promote a positive health, safety and environmental culture within the team, that complies with procedures, accident investigation, corrective actions and completes near miss reporting, behavioral observations, to promote a safe working environment
• Continuously monitor all operational processes and the overall production environment to ensure that activity complies with food safety manufacturing standards
• Deliver area operational productivity and efficiency targets, resolving problems and issues as they arise, ensuring delivery of daily output plan
• Review operational trends within area to identify and act on opportunities that make sustainable improvements to increase quality, performance and/or profit in support of the shift operational plan
• Monitor and review team capability, ensuring all staff are clearly focused on their key objectives and developed to maximize their potential
• Monitor the effectiveness of machinery and equipment through pre-starts and observations, highlighting trends and issues to ensure asset performance is consistent and reliable
• Engage with the team ensuring maximum satisfaction, motivation and well being

What we’re looking for -

• A good standard of education, demonstrates good literacy and numerical skills
• An experienced communicator able to communicate and report proficiently in English
• Experience of operating as a team leader within an FMCG environment
• Holds a basic Food Hygiene accreditation and a basic Food Safety accreditation
• Good problem-solving skills and experience of using lean practices to resolve production issues or enhance performance
• Previous experience of directing and motivating a diverse workforce and leading a team to deliver superlative results

What you’ll get in return -

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Employee awards and long service awards
• Accredited Greencore qualifications, learning and development opportunities.
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform where you can receive discounts on retail, travel, and more.
• Access to a full Well-being Center platform

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make everyday 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. Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.

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