Bakkavor looking to recruit another 202 workers at its Newark site

More than 200 jobs are being created by a food manufacturer at its Newark site.

Bakkavor, the UK’s leading manufacturer of fresh prepared food, has 202 positions available at its site on Jessop Way.

It is part of a recruitment campaign that will see 1,801 more people employed across its UK sites.

“We are delighted to be opening our doors to brilliant new colleagues within the local communities in which we are based," said Donna-Maria Lee, chief people officer at Bakkavor Group.

"We offer a wide range of jobs available at a large number of our well-established sites, all offering career development opportunities as well as great benefits.

"All of our employees across our 23 sites in the UK benefit from first class training programmes which are focused on career progression and individual development.

“The application process for all roles is now open and we have already started interviewing a number of enthusiastic candidates.

"We very much look forward to meeting more applicants and we hope that the roles we have available are able to turn into long-term careers.”

A wide range of positions are available at the Newark site for skilled and semi-skilled individuals, including factory operative, warehouse worker, engineer, accounts assistant, senior process technologist, commercial controller and specifications technologist.

Hours offered depend on the role and differ from day and night shift work and include permanent and part time roles.

Successful applicants will be invited to meet a member of the Bakkavor team in an informal interview.

Bakkavor works with several of the UK’s major supermarkets producing fresh prepared meals, desserts, salads, pizza and bread.

It currently employs 16,000 people across the UK, and another 3,000 globally.

More information is available on the Bakkavor Careers Facebook page and at www.bakkavor.com/careers.