Prep Operatives - Days and Afters

Days and Afters Shift -Working Double Days, Monday to Friday - 06:00am until 14:00pm and 14:00pm until 22:00pm

Pay Rate - £13.28ph

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026,we’reone 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’reproud 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 thevery best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Here in
Consett
, we have a team of around 280 colleagues. We produce a range of chilled ready meals for some of the UK's leading retailers, including Co-op, Sainsbury's and Weight Watchers.

What you'll be doing

Working with a team in preparation in raw materials for production, ensuring that all ingredients are prepared and weighed accurately and available in accordance for production to commence, ensuring all internal customer requirements are met in accordance with quality standards, completing and checking paperwork throughout the preparation process, moving heavy goods to and from different areas of the department.

• Prepare recipes in accordance to recipe sheets, ensuring the correct ingredients are used and are to quality standards.
• Collect required raw ingredients needed to complete the required product while remaining vigilant, ensuring each ingredient is to the correct quality standard and meets Health and Safety requirements.
• Operate scales to weigh ingredients accurately.
• Manually decanting ingredients by hand.
• Swabbing equipment when required for vegan/vegetarian meals, ensuring not contamination.
• Communicating with others to prevent downtime and to achieve production times.
• Working within an allergen-controlled area, decanting and preparing nut products.
• Ensuring product/ingredients are correctly labelled and adhere to traceability requirements.
• Operate the cheese machine when required in accordance with procedures in place, making sure there is no foreign body risk and cheese is to quality standard
• Operating meat tumbler when required as well as the heat sealer after weighing beef into the designated bags
• Ensuring good housekeeping within your work area.
• Other tasks as required

What we're looking for

To be successful in this role, we are looking for the following qualifications and skills:

• Educated to GCSE or equivalent standard with numeracy and literacy skill
• Able to work with basic computer programmes such as Microsoft Office applications
• Holds a Health and Safety level two and a food hygiene level two qualification
• Experience and understanding of internal audit processes
• Has an understanding of allergen awareness and the associated risk
• Has a knowledge of GMP techniques
• Understands non-conformance reporting techniques
• Has and understanding of basic disinfection principles, basic legal labelling practice and basic weight legislation

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity. If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Companysharesave scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhancedparentalleave and menopause policies

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

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