Manufacturing Shift Manager

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.

Our Warrington site is also known as the Italian centre of excellence, recent expansion and investment make this site a state-of-the-art manufacturing unit! We produce high quality Italian ready meals for both Tesco & Co-Op.

At Greencore we actively encourage our colleagues to apply for our vacancies, whether as a lateral move to broaden experience or the next step up to progress your career and development. We also welcome applications from external candidates who are eager to grow their career with us.

What you'll be doing

Shift pattern - 4 on 4 off Days (06:00-17:10 with flexibility)

Lead, co-ordinate and prioritise activity across a shift to deliver productivity and efficiency targets in line with the agreed production plan

Ensure the adherence of all food manufacturing safety and quality standards by all teams on shift safeguarding the delivery of great tasting, high quality food products

Review operational trends across the shift to identify and act upon opportunities that make sustainable improvements in quality, performance and profit

Lead the ongoing development of the SHE culture, promoting adherence to manufacturing guidelines, accident investigation and audit recommendations to support and improve health and safety in the working environment

Ensure that strong communication and information flows are maintained within the operations team to ensure that immediate issues are resolved and ongoing items and trends are shared with the broader operations community

Forecast and control labour requirements, direct and indirect, to meet production programme requirements and customer expectations within budget

Monitor and review team capability, ensuring all colleagues are clearly focused on their key objectives and developed to maximise their potential

What we're looking for

We're not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

A good standard of education is critical; excellent literacy and numerical skills, able to understand, communicate and report clearly in English

Demonstrable analytical skills - ability to pull actionable insight from data

Prior experience of leading a team and resource planning in a people intensive, manufacturing/FMCG environment

Advanced Food Hygiene Accreditation

HACCP Level 3 Qualification

Experience of managing large numbers of people in a complex manufacturing environment

Level Three Health and Safety - IOSH

If this sounds like you join us, 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

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.

We reserve the right to close this advert at anytime.