A Production Operative is responsible for handling, packing, and preparing finished products, ensuring they meet quality, safety, and presentation standards. Duties can include some of the following:
Packer: Handle and pack finished products into trays, ensuring they meet quality, safety, and presentation standards.
End of Line: Ensure products are correctly packed, labelled, checked, and boxed ready for dispatch.
Roller: Rolling Pig in Blankets – wrap a slice of bacon around a chipolata.
DBP: Sausage facility, Down Business Park, Downpatrick
OTB: Vegetarian facility, Down Business Park, Downpatrick
FBR: Bacon Facility, Finnebrogue Road, Downpatrick
CGR: Seasonal Facility, Finnebrogue Road, 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: £13.23 - £13.28 per hour
Night Shift: 6:00pm – 4/5am, 5 days per week. Rate of pay: £13.73 - £13.78 per hour
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.
