Are you a hardworking, reliable team player looking to build a stable career with a global food leader?
As a Production Operative on our afternoon shift, you will be a vital part of the team, ensuring our high-quality products are processed and packed safely for our customers. You will work in a fast-paced factory environment, collaborating closely with your colleagues to meet daily targets while maintaining the highest standards of food safety.
We are looking for dedicated individuals who thrive in a physical, fast-moving environment and are eager to grow within our business.
Joining our PM shift means becoming part of a team with a remarkably strong ethos and a supportive culture. We take pride in being a secure and stable business where your reliability is rewarded with a starting salary of £26,325 per annum for a 37.5-hour week. Because we currently have several skilled positions vacant, you will find a clear path for development and career growth from the very moment you start your journey with us.
At Danish Crown, you aren’t just a number on a shift; you are a key contributor to a global supply chain. In addition to a consistent Monday to Friday schedule (15:15 – 23:45), we offer an amazing 28 days of holiday plus bank holidays. You will also enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including a matched company pension scheme, heavily discounted meat through our staff shop and a free healthcare cash plan to support the well-being of you and your family.
Danish Crown UK is a business built on trust, teamwork and ambition. We exist to deliver food that people believe in and we know that takes strong leadership and collaborative cultures.
Our leadership principles guide us. We act for the good of the whole organisation. We hire brilliant people and help them grow. We are ambitious, curious and open to new ideas. We build trust by accepting mistakes as part of development. We believe real leadership is earned through example, not title.
Whoever joins us will help create a workplace where people feel safe to speak up, share ideas, challenge old ways of working and stretch themselves to achieve more. If that sounds like the environment where you thrive, we would love to hear from you.

The Danish Crown Group is a global food processing company and among the largest in its field. The Group is the world’s largest pork exporter and Europe’s largest pork processor. Furthermore, Danish Crown Beef is a significant player in the European beef market.
Just like the crops in the fields continuously change, Danish Crown tirelessly refine and improve how we work, from farm to fork, to ensure good, safe food for people around the world to enjoy. Our history goes back to 1887 and the Danish cooperative movement, and responsibility towards society, our employees and our owners, the farmers, is quite simply in our genes.
As a global leader in meat production, we have big obligations; not just to deliver, but to explore new opportunities. We still have a long way to go and face many challenges. But we remain committed to improving how food is produced - with respect for animals, people and the environment. In this quest, we are prepared to challenge ourselves, the industry and the market.
This journey is not ours alone, but we promise to be the leaders of change.
You will become a part of a strong culture with roots in the Danish co-operative movement, and at all levels of the organization, you will be met by an informal and direct tone.