Overview

Prep Setter – Days – Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN3 6RX

Permanent – Full-Time
Salary: Up to £15.32 per hour

Shift pattern: Sun to Thurs from 06:00 – 14:30
Pay rate £15.32 per hour
(Unit ABC)
Why Greencore?
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, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95 bil.
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.
Here at Northampton, we operate one of the most impressive facilities in Europe, based across a campus of 5 manufacturing units, and we have a team of around 2,000 colleagues making high quality premium products everyday. We are the sole supplier of sandwiches, wraps, rolls and sushi for Marks & Spencer.
What you’ll be doing
  • Ensure all machinery is set up and working correctly and ready to use.
  • Complete all the necessary compliance paperwork.
  • Ensure the blade integrity checks are carried out and that the relevant departments are notified should an issue be highlighted.
  • Correctly set up all machinery as and when required (before and at changeovers)
  • Follow all compliance controls, risk assessments, and Safe Systems of Work (SSOW) to ensure a safe working environment.
  • Ensure that the relevant quality checks are performed and that any issues regarding quality or food safety are raised immediately to the Line Coordinator
What we’re looking for
  • A good standard of education; demonstrating good literacy and numeracy skills
  • Able to communicate and build rapport at all levels with the team and management
  • Practices and understanding in Health & Safety and Food Hygiene
  • Able to work under pressure and in cold temperature
  • Can work on own initiative and in a team and pays attention to detail
What you’ll get in return
  • Competitive salary and job-related benefits
  • Pension up to 8% 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
We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make everyday 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. 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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