Section Leader (Deli Blue Days 3223)

Greencore

Spalding

On-site

GBP 28,000 - 36,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Company share save scheme

Pension

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Greencore Qualifications

Exclusive Greencore employee discount

Wellbeing Centre platform

Enhanced parental leave and menopause

Job summary

Greencore’s Spalding site is seeking a proactive Section Leader for the Deli Blue Days line. This permanent, site-based role runs days (06:00–18:00), leading a team to deliver on-time production targets and quality standards.

You’ll manage start-up procedures, coordinate staffing, and drive improvements to achieve service levels across three manufacturing facilities and a distribution centre. Reporting to the Production Manager, you will coach staff, monitor performance, and ensure safety and

Qualifications

Experience in a production or section management role within the food manufacturing industry.
Knowledge and experience of continuous improvement.
Understanding of retailer expectations and how we meet them.
Able to inspire and engage your team in a factory environment.

Responsibilities

Walk the floor of the production area and manage start‑up procedures with correct staffing.
Attend daily review meetings and team briefings.
Challenge performance in area regarding quality, throughput, and crew size.
Audit daily technical paperwork.
Document handover for the oncoming shift and ensure packing area is clean and safe.

Skills

Section leadership

Production management

Continuous improvement

Food manufacturing

Team leadership

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.

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