Section Leader (Days 3223)

Greencore; Spalding; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company share save scheme

Pension

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Job summary

Greencore in Spalding is seeking a Section Leader for the Deli Blue Days shift to lead and coordinate all factory activities, ensuring on-time production, quality and safety across the site.

Reporting to a Production Manager, you will organize staff, drive productivity and oversee start-up handovers while delivering improvements aligned with retailer expectations. This site-based, permanent role offers a competitive salary and company benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience in a production or section management role within the food manufacturing industry.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies.
• Understanding of retailer expectations and how we meet them.
• Ability to lead and engage a factory team under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Manage activities within the factory and organize staff.
• Oversee start-up procedures and handovers to the next shift.
• Monitor productivity, quality, and performance to meet service levels.
• Lead daily reviews, safety and quality conversations and handovers.
• Identify improvement opportunities from productivity data and implement changes.

Skills

Production management

Continuous improvement

Leadership

Factory operations

Job description

Job Description

Section Leader (Deli Blue Days)

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: Days 3223, 06.00 - 18.00

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.

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.

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

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.