Production Operative - Grade 3

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

Job summary

A leading food manufacturing company in Kiveton Park is seeking production operatives for night shifts from Sunday to Thursday. Responsibilities include weighing components, maintaining stock levels, and ensuring quality checks are completed. Candidates must have strong attention to detail, good organizational skills, and a basic understanding of English. Attractive benefits include a competitive salary, pension scheme, life insurance, and training opportunities to support career growth.

Benefits

Competitive salary and job-related benefits

Holidays Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Company share save scheme

Exclusive employee discount platform

Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Qualifications

• Production experience is preferred.
• Strong attention to detail and good organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Weighing up components.
• Maintaining stock levels on line.
• Completing quality checks & paperwork.
• Delivering product within time, quantity and quality parameters.
• Ensuring continuous operation of the line through team support.
• Complying with standard operating procedures for safety and quality.
• Raising issues with Senior Production Operative when identified.
• Ensuring Good Manufacturing Practice.
• Supporting Food Safety culture.

Skills

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Good understanding of spoken & written English

Job description

Night Shift - Sunday to Thursday 9:30pm to 5:30am

Pay rate - £14.45 per hour

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, soups, 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.

Our site in Kiveton employs over 600 and is the largest quiche bakery, producing more than 42 million quiche each year along with a wide range of ready meals and soups. We produce more than 160 million units per year across 600 different product lines for customers.

What you’ll be doing

• Weighing up components
• Maintaining stock levels on line
• Completing quality checks & paperwork
• To deliver the product within time, quantity and quality parameters
• To ensure continuous operation of the line through support of all team members
• To comply with all standard operating procedures to ensure customer orders are produced safely, on time, and all aspects of hygiene, quality and cost are met
• To raise issues with Senior Production Operative, when identified
• To ensure Good Manufacturing Practice
• Support our Food Safety culture

What we’re looking for

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. All of the roles involve working in a fast past, chilled environment in a company that puts people at the core. All the roles require a good understanding of both spoken & written English. You will also have strong attention to detail and good organizational skills. Production experience is preferred.

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 up to 8% 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.