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Pay Rate: £17.64 per hour Basic Rate
Shift: Nights
Shift Pattern: 3s and 2s, with every other weekend off (Friday, Saturday and Sunday).
Shift Hours: 18.00 - 06.00
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Old Leake PE22 9PN
Transport: Own Transport Required
What you’ll receive.
As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.
You’ll enjoy.
Competitive salary and job-related benefits
Holidays
Competitive matched pension contributions
Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies
Life insurance up to 4x salary
Company share save scheme
Greencore Qualifications
Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
Overtime payment options from x1.25 to x2.00 (Site variances & Ts & Cs apply)
Free Car Parking
Free vend hot drinks machines*
Free or Subsidised Bus Service Available (Ts & Cs apply) *
*Not available at all sites
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.
Why join us?
We’re proud to give our Kettle Cooks the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career within a small and friendly team. We nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards.
We’re ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it’s exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together.
We’re proud to offer you a career with real opportunity.
What we do.
This particular role is at our site based in Old Leake just outside Boston, Lincolnshire and specialises in making chilled Italian ready meals and modern deli products for a dedicated customer. The site employs around 700 people.
About the role.
As a Kettle Cook, you’ll be responsible for preparing and cooking sauces in line with recipes, ensuring they meet the required quality, food safety and microbiological standards.
As part of the quality checking process, you’ll also be required to taste and assess sauces to ensure they meet the required taste, flavour and quality standards before they are positively released. You’ll need
to be comfortable tasting products regularly and using your judgement to identify any issues that may affect the final product.
Working as part of the production team, you’ll handle ingredients, operate cooking equipment and complete the necessary checks and records to make sure every cook is completed safely and to the correct
specification.
You’ll work closely with colleagues across the production area, including Kettle Runners and High Care Take-Off Operatives, to ensure ingredients and equipment are available when required.
Kettle Cook - Nights duties may include:
Cooking sauces to the required recipe, quality and food safety standards.
Tasting and assessing sauces as part of the quality checking and positive release process, ensuring products meet the required taste, flavour and quality standards.
Lifting, sieving and weighing ingredients accurately as required by the recipe.
Carrying out the necessary checks to ensure sauces are safe and meet the correct standard for consumption.
Using cooking and other equipment safely and effectively following appropriate training.
Communicating with the Kettle Runner to ensure all required ingredients are available.
Working closely with High Care Take-Off Operatives to ensure clippers and capkolds are available when required.
Completing all relevant production and quality records accurately.
Carrying out chemical cleaning using the correct chemicals and following your training.
Entering all relevant information into Red Zone as required.
Following all Health & Safety, Food Safety, GMP and quality requirements at all times.
Supporting SHE responsibilities and objectives in line with HS005.
Carrying out any other reasonable duties required to support the smooth running of the production area.
About you.
We’re looking for someone who is reliable, flexible and takes pride in doing things correctly.
You’ll need:
To meet the minimum entry-level English requirements.
Good communication skills.
Good numeracy and literacy skills, with the ability to follow recipes and complete records accurately.
A good sense of taste and the ability to confidently taste and assess products as part of the quality and positive release process.
A willingness and ability to undertake a Food Safety qualification.
A flexible approach to work and working hours.
The ability to follow Health & Safety, Food Safety, GMP and quality requirements.
The right to work in the UK.
To be fit and able to carry out the duties of the role in line with Occupational Health requirements.
A positive attitude towards teamwork and learning new skills.
Previous experience in food manufacturing or cooking would be beneficial, but full training will be provided on the equipment and processes required for the role.
In return, we’ll offer you the encouragement, support and opportunity to develop your career and take it as far as you can, or as far as you want to go, within our large multinational company.
At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.
If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.
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.
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