Waste Operative

Shift Pattern - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday plus alternating Sundays 6am-6pm (after 6 weeks rotates to Thursday, Friday, Saturday plus alternating Sundays for a further 6 weeks)

Rate of pay - £15.95 per hour

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 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, soups, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals.

In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95bn. Our extensive direct‑to‑store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Selby we employ a team over 750 colleagues. A site steeped in history, we are the UK’s number one manufacturer of customer private label cooking sauces and pickles. We have been serving our customers out of our Selby site since 1914.

We produce more than 160 million units per year across 600 different product lines for customers such as Morrisons, Tesco & Asda.

• Safely remove all bins, IBCs, pallets, and waste receptacles from production and site areas.
• Ensure all receptacles are correctly tagged, weighed, and recorded accurately on the Marco system.
• Move receptacles to the correct location for emptying, cleaning, sorting, storage, or disposal.
• Segregate all waste correctly into recyclable, recoverable, and general waste streams ensuring correct labelling.
• Ensure all receptacles are checked, sorted, and handled safely.
• Clean all bins, IBCs, pallets, and other receptacles to the required factory acceptance standard.
• Maintain the waste area, sortation shed, bin routes, perimeter, and pallet wash areas in a clean, tidy, and audit‑ready condition.
• Ensure no unclean or damaged receptacles are returned to production.
• Operate FLTs and material handling equipment safely and in line with training and site rules.
• Complete pre‑use checks on all equipment and attachments.
• Ensure trucks and equipment are kept clean, safe, and compliant.
• Drive appropriately for conditions, following site speed limits and pedestrian awareness rules.
• Always wear correct PPE and ensure it is clean, stored correctly, and defect‑free.
• Work in accordance with all health & safety procedures, training, and risk assessments.
• Ensure all waste activities meet GMP, food safety, and audit requirements.
• Immediately report any pests, spillages, leaks, damage, or non‑conformances to your line manager.
• Maintain strong communication within the waste team and with other departments.
• Escalate issues, risks, or capacity concerns promptly to the line manager.
• Share information on known issues that may impact operations or compliance.
• Support colleagues and undertake additional tasks as required to meet site priorities.
• Complete all daily and weekly task sheets accurately and on time.
• Ensure all required records, weights, and system entries are completed in full.
• Provide accurate information when requested by management or during audits.
• Use water and energy efficiently, ensuring equipment is switched off when not in use.
• Identify and report improvement opportunities, issues, or ideas to the line manager, including ROI submissions where appropriate.
• Actively support site sustainability, waste reduction, and recycling objectives.

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.

At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves ether we make every day taste better.

• Good understanding of both verbal and written English
• Be friendly, positive, able to manage yourself effectively in the workplace and communicate with colleagues
• Proven knowledge of waste and recycling (preferred)
• Knowledge of warehousing and/or factory operations (preferred)
• Previous experience with forklifts (preferred)

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

• Competitive salary and job‑related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4× salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

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