Section Leader

Greencore; Spalding; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company share save scheme

Pension

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre access

Job summary

Greencore seeks a Section Leader for the Deli Red Nights shift in Spalding to lead factory activities, organise staff and ensure production plans are met. You will drive productivity, safety and quality across three facilities and the distribution centre, coordinating with a dynamic team in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires strong leadership, experience in food manufacturing, and a track record of delivering improvements while balancing retailer expectations.

Qualifications

• Experience in a production or section management role within the food manufacturing industry.
• Knowledge and experience of continuous improvement.
• A solid understanding of retailer expectations and how we meet them.
• You’ll be a great leader, capable of inspiring and engaging your team, understanding the pressure of a factory environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage, organise and control all activities within the factory.
• Assign and organise staff and manage productivity and performance.
• Ensure service levels and performance results are achieved.
• Walk the floor to manage start-up procedures and labour balance.
• Attend daily review meetings and team briefings.
• Audit daily technical paperwork and handover.
• Review productivity and NME losses to identify improvements.
• Identify training needs and manage delivery.
• Maintain safety and quality standards, coordinating with other functions.

Skills

Production management

Leadership

Continuous improvement

Retailer expectations

Job description

Job Description

Section Leader (Deli Red Nights)

Salary: Competitive salary

Benefits: Company share save scheme, Pension, Life insurance up to 4x salary

Location: Spalding

Ways of Working: Site based

Hours of work: Red Nights 3223, 18:00pm – 06:00am

Contract Type: Permanent

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 every day 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.

Our site in Spalding is a vibrant hub where over 1,470 colleagues bring handcrafted sandwich wraps, salads, dips, soups, sauces, and mayonnaise to life across three manufacturing facilities and a distribution centre.

What You’ll Be Doing

Reporting to a Production Manager, you will manage, organise and control all activities within the factory. You will assign and organise staff alongside managing productivity and performance ensuring the achievement of the required service levels and performance results.

Accountabilities:

• You will walk the floor of the production area and manage start-up procedures, receiving a handover from the previous shift and ensuring there is no excess or shortage of labour in the production areas.
• Complete Return to Work interviews, attend daily review meetings and team briefings.
• Constructively challenge performance of area – quality, throughput rate and crew size.
• Effectively audit daily technical paperwork.Document handover for oncoming shift and ensure packing area is left in a clean and safe condition.
• Review Productivity and NME Losses Graph to identify opportunities for improvement
• Identify performance management / training requirements within the area and manage the process / delivery
• An ability to work to Safety & Quality standards, with the ability to work with other functions to deliver the days production plans.

We’re proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.

If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience in a production or section management role within the food manufacturing industry.
• Knowledge and experience of continuous improvement.
• A solid understanding of retailer expectations and how we meet them.
• You’ll be a great leader, capable of inspiring and engaging your team, understanding the pressure of a factory environment.

What You’ll Get In Return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Competitive matched Pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

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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