Skilled Hygiene Operative - Days

FAQs; Spalding; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 23,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holidays

Pension contributions

Life insurance

Share save scheme

Overtime rates (1.25x–2.00x)

Parking

Job summary

Greencore is seeking a Skilled Hygiene Operative for days at the Spalding site to maintain clean production lines in a fast-paced environment. You will follow a clear cleaning schedule, record completed tasks, and ensure compliance with PPE, Food Safety, Health and Safety, and Good Manufacturing Practices.

The role requires attention to detail, basic English and maths, and the ability to work in a factory setting with cleaning chemicals.

Qualifications

• You will have prior hygiene experience.
• You understand or are willing to learn Food Safety principles.

Responsibilities

• Disassemble machinery components as needed for cleaning.
• Clean parts of machinery and assess for damage.
• Re-assemble machinery after cleaning to spec.

Skills

Hygiene experience

Food safety understanding

English literacy

Attention to detail

Job description

Location and Compensation

Location: Bakkavor Meals & Logistics, West Marsh Road, Spalding, PE11 2BB

We drive our own success!

Pay Rate: £14.37 per hour Basic Rate Shift: Days Shift Pattern: 3223 Shift Hours: 05.30am-17.30pm Job Type: Permanent Location: Spalding PE11 2BB 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.

You’ll enjoy.

• 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

Why join us?

We’re proud to give our Skilled Hygiene 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. 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 Spalding site, which employs over 1,470 people across 3 manufacturing facilities & 1 Distribution Centre. We specialise in making hand crafted sandwich wraps, salads, dips, soups & sauces and mayonnaise.

About the role.

We manufacture a wide range of high-quality fresh prepared food. And, although our production lines are fast-paced and high-pressured, our cleaning schedule means that the lines will always stop completely for you to clean them. A typical day of a Skilled Hygiene Operative involves working in a small team, or on your own, following a clear cleaning schedule for our production lines, whether that be a full deep clean with chemicals and taking equipment apart, or routine regular cleans.

The role will require you to record completion of cleaning activities and ensure due diligence, with all manufacturing areas maintained to the highest standards. Always ensuring these duties are completed in line with Company policies and standard operating procedures, including PPE, Food Safety, Health and Safety, ‘clean as you go’ and ‘Good Manufacturing Practices’.

Skilled Hygiene Operative - Days duties may include:

• Disassembling complex machinery such as food formers, automatic tray washers, turbo machines, kipko’s
• Cleaning parts of the machinery
• Assessing parts for damage
• Assessing seals for damage
• Re-assembling machinery

About you.

• You will have previous hygiene experience
• Already have an understand or be willing to learn the principles and application of Food Safety
• Have a proactive approach to Food Safety
• Be comfortable wearing personal protective equipment and working in a factory environment with cleaning chemicals
• A keen eye for detail and a good level of understanding English and Maths
• Fit and able to carry out duties in line with OH requirements

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.