A Machine Operator is a skilled role. You will play a key role within the production team, operating a production machine in the production hall. This role is essential to ensuring products are produced accurately and efficiently.
Proseal Machine Operator: This machine ensures products are sealed with a film on a tray, maintaining product quality, freshness, and food safety standards.
Flowrap Machine Operator: This machine ensures products are sealed within a film (no tray), maintaining product quality, freshness, and food safety standards.
Freemantle Machine Operator: This machine automatically dispenses sleeves for application onto products.
*Vemag Machine Operator (Autoloader): This is a skilled role, responsible for setting up, operating, and maintaining a Vemag autoloader machine (pumps sausages).
*Vemag Machine Operator (Manual): This is a skilled role, responsible for setting up and operating a Vemag on a general packing line (pumps sausages or burgers).
DBP/CGR: Sausage facility, Down Business Park, Downpatrick
FBR: Bacon facility, Finnebrogue Road, Downpatrick
OTB: Vegetarian facility, Down Business Park, Downpatrick
CGR: Christmas Added Value, Down Business Park, Downpatrick
We have roles across all sites on day or night shift.
Day Shift: 6:45am - 5:00pm, 5 days per week
Rate of pay: Level 1 (training) £13.23 – Level 2 £15.08 per hour
Night Shift: 6:00pm – 5:00am, 5 days per week
Rate of pay: Level 1 (training) £13.73 - Level 2 £15.58 per hour
Rate of pay is dependent on machine role.
*Discretionary Performance Payment applies to this role.
Working within one of our state of the art premises you will enjoy a range of benefits including the ability to relax during your break in a restaurant standard canteen with all meals subsidised. We even offer free breakfast options. You will enjoy free onsite car parking and electric charging points. You will be entitled to free products weekly (up to 5 free products per person) through our award winning “Shack Initiative.” We have a packed calendar of wellbeing, social and sport events.
After you have settled into the Finnebrogue family your perks will only increase including a Healthcare plan, cycle to work scheme, new electric car scheme and we won’t forget the days that are important to you, you will receive your birthday as a holiday day! Our list of benefits continue to grow and you don’t have to just take our word for it. We have been awarded Irish News and Grocer Gold Employer of the Year as testimony to the exciting culture and benefits we offer.
Finnebrogue is part of the Sofina Foods Group, a privately owned company with European headquarters in Malton, North Yorkshire, dedicated to providing great-tasting, high-quality food products, and generating more than £3.8 billion in revenue. Globally, the company and its wholly owned subsidiaries operate more than 40 sites and have over 14,000 employees in Canada, the UK, Island of Ireland, Germany and France.
We look at what is wrong with food to figure out how to make it the best it can be, without being bound by the way it has always been done. This kind of innovative thinking has led Finnebrogue to win multiple awards and has established the business as a leading food producer. In 2024, we were recognised as the UK’s Employer of the Year by Grocer Gold and the Best Place to Work in Northern Ireland by the Irish News Workplace & Employment Awards. Our robust People Strategy offers career pathways and development opportunities for all employees, emphasising talent growth and wellbeing with generous benefits for all. We are proud to be the first food producer in the UK and Ireland to achieve the Diversity Mark accreditation and are committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace.
Finnebrogue has been crowned UK Employer of the Year, Best Wellbeing in the Workplace and Food Manufacturer of the Year. Since 1991, we’ve led with bold ideas, continuously pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the food industry.
Finnebrogue is part of the Sofina Foods Group, a privately owned company with European headquarters in Malton, North Yorkshire, dedicated to providing great-tasting, high-quality food products, and generating more than £3.8 billion in revenue. Globally, the company and its wholly owned subsidiaries operate more than 40 sites and have over 14,000 employees in Canada, the UK, Ireland, Germany and France.
