Shift Pattern - Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 05:30 - 16:15
Rate of Pay - £14.20 per hour, overtime paid at x1.25 hrs after 48 hours

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.

Here at Manton Wood, we have a team of around 1,700 colleagues. We produce sandwiches and wraps for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Co-op, Asda, Morrisons, Boots, Aldi and Lidl. Our Manton Wood site has a gym, restaurant with hot food and a staff shop available to all our colleagues.
What you'll be doing
As a Despatch Materials Handler, you will be working between the Production windows and picking/stores area. As an essential part of the Low-Risk team, you will be assisting in ensuring our products our produced to the highest quality and standards. You will be ensuring each window has the correct packaging and trays as well as enough to keeps the lines moving. You will also be responsible for ensuring product received from the production area is chilled to the correct temperature before being picked and despatched.
This a physical role which requires some heavy lifting.
Responsibilities

Setting up of lines ready for production to start - making sure correct packaging/trays/cages are available, correct labels are set up for printing

Ensuring tape machines are set up correctly and supplied with tape to keep lines running.

Using hand pallet trucks to move packaging/materials throughout the area

Moving finished products from the production lines to the blast chills

Booking stock into the chills ready to be picked (using JBA guns)

Completion of traceability paperwork for blast chilling (use by dates, temperatures, times)

Counting of stock (both packaging and finished products) to ensure we always have adequate supply of packaging and to ensure correct amounts of finished stock are produced

Moving of finished products (cages, trays on wheels) to pick areas once chilled to be palletised and despatched
What we're looking for
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.
Previous experience in a similar role/food environment (Desirable, not necessary)

Able to read and write in English

Basic level of Maths required (counting stock, using calculators, JBA guns)

Ability to work under some pressure to ensure lines are serviced and able to run continuously

Great attention to detail (completing traceability paperwork, important to be accurate)

Ability to follow verbal and written instructions.

Strong communication skills and desire to work with other team members.
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
Competitive matched pension contributions
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
Free on site gym
Staff company shopThroughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.

Please note due to high numbers of applications this role maybe closed before the posted closing date.
**Greencore and its recruitment partners never charge candidates any fees at any stage of the hiring process. Any request for payment relating to a job opportunity should be considered fraudulent

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