Line Coordinator - Days

Northampton Business Directory; Northampton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK food manufacturer is seeking a Team Leader to promote safety and operational efficiency in Northampton. Responsibilities include ensuring compliance with food safety standards, monitoring team performance, and driving productivity. Applicants should have strong communication skills, leadership experience in an FMCG environment, and relevant certifications. The position offers competitive pay and various employee benefits, making it an excellent opportunity for career growth.

Benefits

Competitive salary and job-related benefits

Pension up to 8% matched

Employee awards and long service awards

Accredited qualifications and development opportunities

Exclusive employee discount platform

Access to a Well-being Center platform

Qualifications

• Demonstrates good literacy and numerical skills.
• Able to communicate and report proficiently in English.
• Experience of operating as a team leader within an FMCG environment.
• Holds basic Food Hygiene and Food Safety accreditations.
• Good problem-solving skills with experience in lean practices.
• Experience in directing and motivating a diverse workforce.

Responsibilities

• Promote a health, safety, and environmental culture within the team.
• Ensure compliance with food safety manufacturing standards.
• Deliver area operational productivity and efficiency targets.
• Review operational trends to make sustainable improvements.
• Monitor team capability and key objectives.
• Ensure consistent and reliable machinery performance.
• Engage with the team to ensure satisfaction and motivation.

Skills

Good literacy and numerical skills

Experienced communicator in English

Team leader experience in FMCG

Basic Food Hygiene accreditation

Problem-solving skills

Experience with lean practices

Ability to motivate a diverse workforce

Education

Good standard of education

Job description

Shift pattern: Friday - Tuesday 05:00-13:30

Pay rate: Competitive

(Please note that the anticipated start date for this position is early January)

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 £1.95bn.

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 every day. We are the sole supplier of sandwiches, wraps, rolls and sushi for Marks & Spencer.

What you’ll be doing

• Promote a positive health, safety and environmental culture within the team, that complies with procedures, accident investigation, corrective actions and completes near miss reporting, behavioural observations, to promote a safe working environment
• Continuously monitor all operational processes and the overall production environment to ensure that activity complies with food safety manufacturing standards
• Deliver area operational productivity and efficiency targets, resolving problems and issues as they arise, ensuring delivery of daily output plan
• Review operational trends within area to identify and act on opportunities that make sustainable improvements to increase quality, performance and/or profit in support of the shift operational plan
• Monitor and review team capability, ensuring all staff are clearly focused on their key objectives and developed to maximize their potential
• Monitor the effectiveness of machinery and equipment through pre-starts and observations, highlighting trends and issues to ensure asset performance is consistent and reliable
• Engage with the team ensuring maximum satisfaction, motivation and well being

What we’re looking for

• A good standard of education, demonstrates good literacy and numerical skills
• An experienced communicator able to communicate and report proficiently in English
• Experience of operating as a team leader within an FMCG environment
• Holds a basic Food Hygiene accreditation and a basic Food Safety accreditation
• Good problem‑solving skills and experience of lean practices to resolve production issues or enhance performance
• Previous experience of directing and motivating a diverse workforce and leading a team to deliver superlative results

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job‑related benefits
• 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 Well‑being Center 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.