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Shift Pattern - Sunday to Alternating Wednesday 17:45 - 05:45 Rate of Pay - £14.61 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.
Job Responsibility:
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.
Requirements:
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.
Nice to have:
Previous experience in a similar role/food environment