Sauce Cooking Operative

Days - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - 04:00am until 16:00pm (after 6 weeks rotates to Thursday, Friday and Saturday for a further 6 weeks) Pay Rate - £15.60ph per hour rising to £16.02ph upon successful completion of training (Over time is after 36 hours a week at time and a quarter) 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 Here at 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. What you'll be doing Responsible for mixing ingredients and raw materials in commercial kettles to create our sauces You will need to follow recipes and specifications, as well as ensuring consistency across batches so that our customers receive high quality products on time, every time Efficiently carry out any assigned operation or task, meeting all output targets Effectively contribute to improved line performance and efficiencies Maintain excellent Housekeeping, Health & Safety, Food Safety and Hygiene standards Resolve running problems/issues Handling food ingredients Able to follow manual lifting processes to handle 5kg to 20kg weighted resources.

Participate in training and mentoring of new staff Identify opportunities to continuously improve the production/process Communicate effectively with your area leaders What we're looking for Experience working with machinery in a manufacturing environment is essential Comply with all relevant business and site policies such as Health and Safety and Food Safety standards Demonstrate flexibility, adaptability, and teamwork with the ability to work under pressure Have the ability to work in a fast-paced environment producing quality and safe products Good attention to details Have strong and effective communication skills both verbal and written Be open to working in a production environment with varying temperatures Have a positive attitude and work ethic 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 and 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 Pension competitively matched Life insurance up to 4x 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.

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