Prep Line coordinator in Atherstone

Contract Type: Permanent - Fulltime

Shift Pattern/ Time: Sunday - Wednesday, 18:30 - 05:00

Salary: Competitive

Location: Greencore, Carlyon Road Industrial Estate, 7, Carlyon Rd, Atherstone CV9 1LQ (Please note this is a full-time role only)

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 FY24, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.8bn.

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 Atherstone, we have a team of around 670 colleagues. We produce Sandwiches, Wraps, Rolls, and Toasties for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Aldi, Costa, Sainsburys and many more.

What you’ll be doing:

• Primary point of contact for a team of colleagues, meeting and greeting them on arrival and departure and ensuring they are equipped to succeed.
• Coordinating colleagues so they can rotate across different tasks providing feedback on performance and adherence to operational standards helping build their skills and confidence.
• Being a great talent spotter, supporting the development across your team, and being the person your team looks to for guidance and support.
• Co-ordinating and covering breaks whilst managing working time and reporting absences to line managers.
• Making sure prestart safety checks are completed, reporting any near misses, and checking on the welfare of your team.
• Ensuring production is in line with the agreed plan during your shift, capturing performance data, and checking operational tasks are completed to our high standards.
• Troubleshooting any machinery or material issues and working with your colleagues you’ll ensure that quality checks are completed for adherence to food safety, customer, and quality standards.

What we’re looking for:

• You will be a confident and clear communicator with the ability to engage, influence and motivate others, and enjoy working with people and teams.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience leading teams of 20 or more in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven background in food manufacturing, preferably within chilled product operations.
• Experience conducting Health & Safety risk assessments.
• A commitment to not only self-development but also multi-skilling and developing others in your team.
• An understanding of the changing demands and pace of a manufacturing process.
• Experience having worked to deliver a production plan, meet key performance indicators and also implement improvements.
• Confident using data and software systems e.g., data entry and paper traceability records.
• Familiarity with ERP systems for production and inventory management.

What you’ll get in return:

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits.
• Refer a friend scheme - £300 per friend referred (T&C apply).
• Pension up to 8% matched.
• Employee awards and long service awards.
• Accredited Greencore qualifications, learning and development opportunities.
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform where you can receive discounts on retail, travel, and more.
• 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. 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.