Skilled Factory Operative - Nights

FAQs; Holbeach CP; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Holiday entitlement

Pension contributions

Life insurance

Employee discounts

Free parking

Job summary

Greencore operates a nights shift role at Holbeach St Marks, Lincolnshire, manufacturing chilled pizzas with a focus on safety, speed and precision. You will work on a non-stop production line, handling CCPs, metal detection and weighing while maintaining right-first-time quality.

The role is permanent, with a nights pattern from Sunday to Thursday. Overtime may be available and benefits include pension and life cover, with a requirement for own transport to the site.

Qualifications

• Previous manufacturing experience is essential.
• Good attention to detail and organisation.
• Willingness to wear PPE.
• Desire to learn about Food Safety and GMP.

Responsibilities

• Conduct CCPs.
• Metal detection operation.
• Check weighing operation.
• Lead a production line.

Skills

Manufacturing experience

Attention to detail

Team player

English literacy

Job description

Location: Bakkavor Pizza Holbeach, Sluice Road, Holbeach St Marks, Holbeach, PE12 8HF

Proud to deliver high quality products and develop high quality careers!

Pay Rate: £16.77 Basic Rate

Shift: Nights

Shift Pattern: Sunday to Thursday

Shift Hours: 21:30-06:00

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Holbeach St Marks PE12 8HF

Transport: Own Transport Required

What you’ll receive.

As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Overtime payment options from x1.25 to x2.00 (Site variances & Ts & Cs apply)
• Free Car Parking
• Free vend hot drinks machines*
• Free or Subsidised Bus Service Available (Ts & Cs apply)
• * Not available at all sites

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

Why join us?

We’re proud to give our Skilled Factory Operatives the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career within a small and friendly team. We nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards.

We’re constantly evolving, progressing and diversifying. And we want our people to do so too. For everyone to feel empowered, engaged and enabled. To create opportunities to move forward, climb higher and push for more. We believe in fuelling ambition and guiding success. In supporting everyone with talent and drive to own what they do, realise their potential and build a brilliant future for themselves at Greencore.

We’re proud to offer you a career with real opportunity.

What we do.

This particular role is at our site based in Holbeach St Marks, Lincolnshire and employs around 880. The site specialises in making chilled pizzas.

About the role.

We manufacture a wide range of high-quality chilled products for our dedicated customers at our sites. Our production lines are non-stop, so you’ll be kept busy creating our products. Working right at the heart of our fast-paced, high-pressured environment, you’ll enjoy plenty of variety, be encouraged to find where your strengths lie and supported to achieve your full potential.

Whether you are a machine operative, mixing operative, technician, QCs or key operative, you’ll always focus on safety, speed and accuracy. Using your previous experience in a manufacturing environment, you’ll always aim to deliver high-quality in a right first-time environment.

Skilled Factory Operative - Nights

• Conducting CCP’s
• Metal Detection operation
• Check weighing operation
• Leading a production line

We’re looking for hardworking people, willing to learn and keen to progress. Familiar with the demands of a fast-paced production environment, you’ll have a good understanding of food safety best practice.

About you.

• Plenty of drive, motivation, and ambition
• Previous manufacturing experience is essential
• Good attention to detail and organisation skills
• The desire to learn about Food Safety and Good Manufacturing Practices
• The willingness to wear PPE
• The ability to be hardworking and a good team player
• A keen eye for detail and a good understanding of English and Maths

In return, we’ll offer you the encouragement, support and opportunity to develop your career and take it as far as you can, or as far as you want to go, within our large multinational company.

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

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.