Kitchen Assistant

Job Role: Kitchen Assistant 

Location: Spalding - Salads

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.

As Kitchen Assistant you will complete food preparation, stock management and cleaning duties in order to maximise the efficiency of the Product Development team.

Key responsibilities:

• Coordinate ordering of ingredients, packaging and kitchen supplies to ensure stock is rotated and waste is kept to a minimum
• Clean and maintain kitchen and presentation equipment for the development area maintaining a clean as you go culture in line with kitchen ways of working
• Ensure food preparation is completed to support the Chef
• Buy ingredient supplies and benchmark samples when required
• Where relevant plan and manage sample making, communicating, and updating progress each day and escalating any issues to line manager
• Test recipes to ensure that they meet required technical parameters (TSS, PH, SG, Viscosity)
• Accurate labelling of products and boxing of samples to be sent externally

What We’re Looking For:

• Qualified to Food Safety Level 2 standard is essential
• An understanding of the restaurant market with some experience of working in a fast-paced kitchen environment

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, 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.

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