About us
Greencore Group plc is a leading convenience food business with an annual turnover in excess of £1.1 billion.
Operating 16 high-quality convenience food manufacturing facilities in the United Kingdom and a further 6 in the United States, we employ more than 11,000 people providing a wide range of chilled, frozen and ambient foods to major retail and food service customers in the UK, the US and Ireland.
Greencore Prepared Meals is a major manufacturer of chilled prepared meals, chilled pasta sauces and soups as well as meat spreads and the UK's leading producer of quiche. It has four well-invested facilities in Kiveton, Warrington, Wisbech and Bristol. Greencore manufactures in excess of 120 million prepared meals each year and produces more than half of all of the UK's quiche.
The role
Provide support to the specification and artwork function, ensuring customer specifications and artworks satisfy all existing corporate and customer requirements for quality, safety and legality. Provide support to the site continuous improvement program by carrying out efficient & accurate trials which maximize the site's financial savings.
Key accountabilities
i. Ensure compliance of legislative and customer specific procedures for customer specification generation and artwork review and management.
ii. To assist in managing from concept onwards in accordance with development procedures, the successful implementations of continuous improvement projects within the factory.
iii. To help manage change through close working relationships with all other departmental teams. .i.e.
iv. Working with other department members to ensure deadlines can be achieved.
v. To fully support and deliver to all levels of our business effective communications, both written and verbal
vi. Ensure compliance with our Site Behavioural Charter
vii. Drive TLC improvements
viii. Ensure that the requirements stated in our Health and Safety Policy are communicated and implemented fully within your areas of control.
Skills & experience
* HND/Degree (Food Processing or related)
* A 'can do' attitude demonstrated in a challenging manufacturing environment
* Excellent "Attention To Detail" skills
* Flexible and pro-active approach to work / Ability to work out of normal working hours.
* Excellent organisational skills
* Self motivated
* Ambitious
* Ideally a minimum 6 months to 1 year experience in a food industry.
* Excellent communication / PC skills, formally and informally / Ideally customer based spec systems
* Food legislation knowledge
* Excellent organisational skills
* Self motivated
