Working for Northern Foods Plc
At Northern Foods we are as passionate about our people as we are about our food.
Our customers regularly tell us that it’s the quality of our food and our commitment to service that makes us one of the leading providers in the field.
What we do is not simple and it is the skills of our people that help us achieve our great reputation. We have to understand food trends, anticipate demand, develop great food ideas, source ingredients, configure production runs, maintain strict temperature regimes for our food, make 1000’s of recipes every day, check the quality of our food and make sure it gets to our customers on time.
It’s not surprising that a wealth of expertise exists across the company. From chefs to category managers, from line operatives to logistics, from technologists to team leaders - we are always looking for talented people to join our team. As a company in change we offer exciting and stretching career opportunities for people who want to make a difference.
A great place to work.
As one of the UK’s leading food producers with around 11,000 employees across the UK and Ireland, producing a great range of own label and branded products, there are many reasons why Northern Foods is a great place to work.
We offer a wide range of exciting career opportunities across different functions and in various locations in the UK and Ireland.
From ensuring that our production lines are running as efficiently as possible to liaising with customers or developing exciting new products – we have a broad range of opportunities to suit all tastes.
Whilst the largest number of roles we offer are in production, our careers are more than about making good food; we regularly have opportunities within Finance, Human Resources, Sales, Marketing, IT or Procurement.
It’s not just the roles in Northern Foods that are varied, we have locations across the UK and Ireland. These range from our 21 manufacturing sites to our Technical Centre in Nottingham and our Services Centre in Wakefield to our corporate centre in Leeds.
At Northern Foods we value our people.
We want everyone to feel fulfilled in their roles and have the opportunity to reach their full potential.
We believe that by providing access to knowledge, learning and development we will help our people perform to the best of their abilities, both helping to drive our overall performance and allowing them to benefit from learning new skills and tackling new challenges.
With Northern Foods you will grow and develop through a range of learning opportunities, including:
- On the job training, including a structured induction programme, basic food safety, help stop accidents at work and other job specific training
- Support for professional qualifications such as CIMA, CIPS and CIPD
- PC based learning through on site learning centres
- Our Management Development Programme aimed at newly qualified Graduates and also those in the early stages of their career
- A variety of middle and senior management development programmes such as our Manufacturing Management Development Programme aimed at driving forward continuous improvement throughout the business
- Personal development programmes linked with leading UK universities and business schools