Skilled Hygiene Operative

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Pay Rate: £17.01 per hour Basic Rate

Shift: Nights

Shift Pattern: 3s and 2s

Shift Hours: 18:00pm - 06:00am

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Holbeach St Marks PE12 8HF

Transport: Own Transport Required

What you'll receive.

As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You'll enjoy.
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

Greencore Qualifications

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 Skilled Hygiene 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. 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 Bakkavor Pizza site based in Holbeach St Marks, Lincolnshire and employs around 880. The site specialises in making chilled pizzas.

About the role.

We manufacture a wide range of high-quality fresh prepared food. And, although our production lines are fast-paced and high-pressured, our cleaning schedule means that the lines will always stop completely for you to clean them.

A typical day of a Skilled Hygiene Operative involves working in a small team, or on your own, following a clear cleaning schedule for our production lines, whether that be a full deep clean with chemicals and taking equipment apart, or routine regular cleans.

The role will require you to record completion of cleaning activities and ensure due diligence, with all manufacturing areas maintained to the highest standards. Always ensuring these duties are completed in line with Company policies and standard operating procedures, including PPE, Food Safety, Health and Safety, 'clean as you go' and 'Good Manufacturing Practices'.

Skilled Hygiene Operative - Nights duties may include:
Disassembling complex machinery such as food formers, automatic tray washers, turbo machines, kipko's

Cleaning parts of the machinery

Assessing parts for damage

Assessing seals for damage

Re-assembling machinery

It can be complicated and physically challenging stuff. Especially with audit requirements and customer expectations to exceed as our hygiene team is essential for Greencore to maintain expected standards of our products and hit audit scores in line with customer expectations.

About you.
You will have previous hygiene experience

Already have an understand or be willing to learn the principles and application of Food Safety

Have a proactive approach to Food Safety

Be comfortable wearing personal protective equipment and working in a factory environment with cleaning chemicals

A keen eye for detail and a good level of understanding English and Maths

Fit and able to carry out duties in line with OH requirements

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.
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Location:
Holbeach
Salary:
£17.01 per hour
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Skilled Trades;Health

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