Skilled Hygiene Operative - Days

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension contributions

Life insurance

Free parking

Wellbeing centre

Job summary

Greencore seeks a Skilled Hygiene Operative for our Spalding site. You’ll follow a clear cleaning schedule across production lines, ensuring deep cleans or routine maintenance with PPE and chemicals. Maintain due diligence and document cleaning activities to meet high standards.

You’ll join a small or solo team, receive on‑the‑job training, and have opportunities to develop within our large multinational company as we push for continuous improvement and audit readiness.

Qualifications

• Previous hygiene experience
• Willingness to learn Food Safety principles
• Proactive approach to Food Safety
• Comfortable wearing PPE and working with cleaning chemicals
• Good level of English and Maths
• Ability to meet OH requirements

Skills

Hygiene experience

Food safety awareness

Attention to detail

English & Maths literacy

Job description

We drive our own success!Pay Rate: £14.37 per hour Basic RateShift: DaysShift Pattern: 3223Shift Hours: 05.30am-17.30pmJob Type: PermanentLocation: Spalding PE11 2BBTransport: Own Transport RequiredWhat 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 benefitsHolidaysCompetitive matched pension contributionsEnhanced parental leave and menopause policiesLife insurance up to 4x salaryCompany share save schemeGreencore QualificationsExclusive Greencore employee discount platformAccess to a full Wellbeing Centre platformOvertime payment options from x1.25 to x2.00 (Site variances & Ts & Cs apply)Free Car ParkingFree vend hot drinks machines*Free or Subsidised Bus Service Available (Ts & Cs apply) **Not available at all sitesThroughout 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 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’sCleaning parts of the machineryAssessing parts for damageAssessing seals for damageRe-assembling machineryIt can be complicated and physically challenging stuff. Especially with audit requirements and customer expectations to exceed as our hygiene team is essential for Greencore to maintain expected standards of our products and hit audit scores in line with customer expectations.About you.You will have previous hygiene experienceAlready have an understand or be willing to learn the principles and application of Food SafetyHave a proactive approach to Food SafetyBe comfortable wearing personal protective equipment and working in a factory environment with cleaning chemicalsA keen eye for detail and a good level of understanding English and MathsFit and able to carry out duties in line with OH requirementsIn 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 GreencoreFollowing 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.Greencore and its recruitment partners never charge candidates any fees at any stage of the hiring process. Any request for payment relating to a job opportunity should be considered fraudulent.