Sauce Cook

Greencore Group plc; Wisbech; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading convenience food manufacturer in Wisbech is seeking production staff responsible for mixing ingredients to create sauces. Candidates should preferably have experience in food manufacturing and strong problem-solving skills. The role offers competitive pay and various job-related benefits, ensuring a collaborative and supportive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary and job-related benefits

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

Access to a Wellbeing Centre platform

Free car parking

Qualifications

• Experience working within a food manufacturer preferred.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a team effectively.

Responsibilities

• Mix ingredients and raw materials in commercial kettles to create sauces.
• Ensure consistency across batches for high quality products.
• Maintain excellent standards of hygiene and food safety.

Skills

Problem solving skills

Good communicator

Literacy and Numeracy skills

Allergen awareness

Education

L2 Food Safety

Job description

4on4off 07:00 - 19:00 / 03:00 - 15:00 (flexi start required)

Pay Rate: £14.09ph

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 Wisbech, we have a team of 525 colleagues and manufacture premium chilled ready to cook meals for major retailers such as Sainsbury’s, Aldi and Co-op.

What you’ll be doing

• Responsible for mixing ingredients and raw materials in commercial kettles to create our sauces
• You will need to follow recipes and specifications, as well as ensuring consistency across batches so that our customers receive high quality products on time, every time
• Efficiently carry out any assigned operation or task, meeting all output targets
• Effectively contribute to improved line performance and efficiencies
• Maintain excellent Housekeeping, Health & Safety, Food Safety and Hygiene standards
• Resolve running problems/issues
• Handling food ingredients
• Able to follow manual lifting processes to handle 5kg to 20kg weighted resources.
• Participate in training and mentoring of new staff
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve the production/process
• Communicate effectively with your area leaders

What we’re looking for

• Full training will be provided if successful in this role but are looking for the following knowledge and experience:
• Experience working within a food manufacturer preferred
• Good Literacy and Numeracy skills
• Problem solving skills
• Good communicator and ability to work in a team
• Allergen awareness
• L2 Food Safety is preferred but not essential

We’re proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality. If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Free car parking
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.

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