Sauce Cooking Operative Night shift

Greencore Group; Selby; Remote; GBP 38,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holidays

Pension

Life insurance

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Exclusive employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre platform

Job summary

Greencore Selby is seeking a Nights shift operative to join our sauces production line. You’ll follow recipes, mix ingredients and ensure high quality outputs on time.

You’ll work a 16:00–04:00 schedule with overtime after 36 hours; training leads to progression and pay uplift.

Greencore offers holidays, pension, life cover, a share save scheme and staff discounts, plus on‑the‑job development within a large UK food manufacturing group.

Qualifications

• Experience working with machinery in a manufacturing environment is essential.
• Demonstrates flexibility, adaptability and teamwork in a fast-paced setting.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to safety and quality.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for mixing ingredients and raw materials in commercial kettles to create sauces.
• Follow recipes and specifications to ensure consistent quality across batches.
• Meet output targets and contribute to improved line performance and efficiencies.
• Maintain high housekeeping, health & safety, and food safety standards.

Skills

Experience with machinery

Teamwork

Attention to detail

Safety awareness

Good communication

Job description

Nights- Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, - 16:00pm to 04:00am (after 6 weeks rotates to Wednesday, Thursday, Friday for a further 6 weeks)

Pay Rate- £18.07ph per hour rising to £18.54ph 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

• Responsible for mixing ingredients and raw materials in commercial kettles to create our sauces
• You will need to follow recipes and specifications, as well as ensuring consistency across batches so that our customers receive high quality products on time, every time
• Efficiently carry out any assigned operation or task, meeting all output targets
• Effectively contribute to improved line performance and efficiencies
• Maintain excellent Housekeeping, Health & Safety, Food Safety and Hygiene standards
• Resolve running problems/issues
• Handling food ingredients
• Able to follow manual lifting processes to handle 5kg to 20kg weighted resources.
• Participate in training and mentoring of new staff
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve the production/process
• Communicate effectively with your area leaders

What we’re looking for

• Experience working with machinery in a manufacturing environment is essential
• Comply with all relevant business and site policies such as Health and Safety and Food Safety standards
• Demonstrate flexibility, adaptability, and teamwork with the ability to work under pressure
• Have the ability to work in a fast-paced environment producing quality and safe products
• Good attention to details
• Have strong and effective communication skills both verbal and written
• Be open to working in a production environment with varying temperatures
• Have a positive attitude and work ethic

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

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.

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make everyday taste better.

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Please note due to high numbers of applications this role maybe closed before the posted closing date.