Factory Operative in Boston

Proud to deliver high quality products and develop high quality careers!

Pay Rate: £14.34 per hour, opportunity to progress to Skilled Operative within 3 - 6 months

Basic Rate Shift: Nights

Shift Pattern: 3's & 2's

Shift Hours: 18.00 - 06.00

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Old Leake PE22 9PN

Transport: Own Transport Required

What you’ll receive:

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• 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)

*Not available at all sites

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 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 a family and that’s what families do. We champion each other, support each other and help each other to grow and improve. A place of safety, stability and belonging, we put a protective arm around everyone and, when we see talent or potential, we give it a leg up. Finding ways for everyone, whatever their circumstances or background, to develop, progress and become the best they can be.

What we do:

This particular role is at our Bakkavor Meals site based in Old Leake just outside Boston, Lincolnshire and specialises in making chilled Italian ready meals and modern deli products for a dedicated customer. The site employs around 700 people.

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.

About you:

• Plenty of drive, motivation, and ambition
• 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 basic 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.