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.

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.

What you'll be doing 

Ensure the resource and labour plan is executed and fulfilled in accordance with operational requirements and customer demand

• Develop the short, medium and long-term labour plan to optimise line balancing and units per labour hour targets
• Coordinate all weekly recruitment requirements and schedule agency labour flex, manage, and maintain the labour database, to ensure resource plan is met
• Management of the skills matrix and associated recruitment to advise trainers to ensure correct level of skills to deliver the labour plan
• Monitor the training activity to determine the correct availability of skills to deliver the labour plan
• Management of time and attendance exceptions to ensure delivery of the labour schedule
• Manage colleague holiday requests to ensure correct level of skill availability
• Work alongside line managers and our Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) team to understand any working restrictions – to move labour around accordingly
• Understand starter and leaver process including induction and training to monitor correct level of skills

What we are looking for

• Confident liaising with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
• Confident and regular user of software packages such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Skilled at administering software solutions and platforms, specifically online data tracking and reporting systems
• Able to analyse data, collate reports and identify trends
• Able to use knowledge of the specialist area to identify issues/escalate when appropriate
• Proven coordination and event planning ability
• Excellent attention to detail
• Able to anticipate challenges and use initiative working independently to resolve or improve processes
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and work under pressure

These may be trained or developed. These do not all need to be in place at recruitment.

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

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.