At a Glance
- Tasks: Join our team to produce high-quality chilled products in a fast-paced environment.
- Company: Greencore, a leading convenience food creator with a vibrant culture.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, holidays, pension contributions, and employee discounts.
- Other info: Opportunities for growth and a commitment to employee wellbeing.
- Why this job: Develop your career while working with a supportive and friendly team.
- Qualifications: Previous manufacturing experience and a strong desire to learn.
The predicted salary is between 16.17 - 16.17 £ per hour.
Proud to deliver high quality products and develop high quality careers!
Pay Rate: £15.77 - £16.17 per hour
Shift: Nights
Shift Pattern: 4 on 2 off
Shift Hours: 21:00 - 06:00
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Pike Road Industrial Estate CT15 4NL
Transport: Own Transport Required
What you’ll receive:
- Competitive salary and job-related benefits
- Holidays
- Competitive matched pension contributions
- Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies
- Life insurance up to 4x salary
- Company share save scheme
- Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
- Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
- Overtime payment options from x1.25 to x2.00 (Site variances & Ts & Cs apply)
- Free Car Parking
- Free vend hot drinks machines
- Free or Subsidised Bus Service Available (Ts & Cs apply)
Throughout 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 Factory 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. And we want our people to do so too. 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 site in Tilmanstone, based near Dover in Kent. The site employs around 850 people and produces millions of bags of leafy salads and prepared vegetables for a dedicated customer. It is only 8 miles from Dover.
About the role:
We manufacture a wide range of high-quality chilled products for our dedicated customers at our sites. Our production lines are non-stop, so you’ll be kept busy creating our products. Working right at the heart of our fast-paced, high-pressured environment, you’ll enjoy plenty of variety, be encouraged to find where your strengths lie and supported to achieve your full potential.
Whether you are a machine operative, mixing operative, technician, QCs or key operative, you’ll always focus on safety, speed and accuracy. Using your previous experience in a manufacturing environment, you’ll always aim to deliver high-quality in a right first-time environment.
Skilled Factory Operative - Nights duties may include:
- Conducting CCP’s
- Metal Detection operation
- Check weighing operation
- Leading a production line
We’re looking for hardworking people, willing to learn and keen to progress. Familiar with the demands of a fast-paced production environment, you’ll have a good understanding of food safety best practice.
About you:
- Plenty of drive, motivation, and ambition
- Previous manufacturing experience is essential
- Good attention to detail and organisation skills
- The desire to learn about Food Safety and Good Manufacturing Practices
- The willingness to wear PPE
- The ability to be hardworking and a good team player
- A keen eye for detail and a good understanding of English and Maths
In 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 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.
Skilled Factory Operative - Nights in Ramsgate employer: FAQs
Greencore is an exceptional employer that prioritises the growth and wellbeing of its employees, offering a competitive salary alongside a comprehensive benefits package including enhanced parental leave, life insurance, and a share save scheme. Located in Tilmanstone, near Dover, our vibrant work culture fosters teamwork and personal development, ensuring that every Skilled Factory Operative has the opportunity to thrive in a supportive environment while contributing to the production of high-quality food products.
