Why Greencore?
We’re a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better.
We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 13,300 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY24, we generated revenues of £1.8bn.
Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,500 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.
Here at Atherstone, we have a team of around 550 colleagues. We produce sandwiches, wraps, rolls, bircher pots and toasties for some of the biggest retailers in the UK including Aldi, Shell, Costa & Cafe Nero.
What you’ll be doing
To drive step change improvements in OEE, labour & material cost performance through leadership, capability build and coaching of site operational teams
- Set up Performance control systems (including short interval control)
- Lead diagnostic ideation process
- Complete line studies to build improvement case studies
- Lead improvement teams to deliver work stream improvements in line with the set targets/ROI
- Lead best practice sharing and support replication on other sites
- Set and coach the behavioural standard in site teams
What we’re looking for
We’re proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality.
- Project management experience supported by robust root cause analysis skills and an ability to identify and deliver permanent solutions.
- Good communication skills, ideally having been practised by leading people through change, engaging people in the need for change.
- Skilled in lean improvement techniques
- Capable of coaching frontline teams through to GMs in performance behaviours/SIC and best practice adoption
- Able to interpret a site P&L and provide insight into improvement opportunities
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
- Enhanced parenthood benefits
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.
