19 Production Line Butchery jobs in Ireland

Are you passionate about fresh food and enjoy working with your hands in a lively, fast-paced environment? We're looking for a Food Production Assistant to join our growing production team, where every day is about crafting delicious snacks with care, precision, and pride.

What You'll Be Doing:

As a vital part of our bakery team, you'll help bring our fresh products to life. Your daily responsibilities will include:

• Weighing and preparing ingredients to create high-quality mixes on schedule.
• Shaping dough and rolling balls into our signature finished goods, attention to detail is key
• Packing products with care to meet customer order deadlines.
• Maintaining a sharp eye on product quality and consistency.
• Helping to ensure the bakery is clean, organised, and meets top food safety standards.

Why This Role Might Be Perfect for You:

• Monday to Friday only, enjoy your evenings and weekends off
• Be part of a friendly, supportive, and fast-paced team.
• Opportunity to learn and grow in a hands-on food production environment.
• Work in a well-established and respected company that values quality and teamwork.

Who We're Looking For:

We're on the hunt for someone who's:

• Enthusiastic, reliable, and a great team player.
• Able to work efficiently under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Has excellent spoken English to ensure clear communication.
• Local to Rathcoole or able to commute daily to Greenogue Business Park.

Bonus Points:

• Previous experience in a bakery, food production, or manufacturing environment.
• HACCP training or understanding of food safety procedures.

If you're ready to roll up your sleeves and be part of something fresh every day, we'd love to hear from you

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: €14.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Bike to work scheme
• Employee discount
• On-site parking

Application question(s):

• Will you be able to reliably commute or relocate to Rathcoole, CO. Dublin for this job?

Work authorisation:

• Ireland (required)

Work Location: In person

Food Production Manager – Co. Wexford

Excel Recruitment is delighted to recruit a
Food Production Manager
on behalf of our client, a leading food business in Co. Wexford. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced and motivated professional to lead a busy food production team, ensuring the highest standards in quality, efficiency, and innovation.

Salary:
€50k - €55k

Responsibilities:

• Oversee daily food production operations, ensuring quality, efficiency, and compliance with food safety standards
• Lead and motivate a team to achieve production targets and KPIs
• Drive innovation by developing and improving new and existing product lines
• Manage production planning, staff rosters, and resource allocation for peak periods
• Liaise with suppliers to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of materials
• Maintain excellent food hygiene and health & safety practices across the facility
• Monitor costs, margins, and product performance to ensure profitability
• Train, coach, and develop team members to ensure high performance and skill development

Requirements:

• Minimum 3 years' experience in a food production or manufacturing management role
• Strong understanding of food safety, HACCP, and quality control standards
• Excellent leadership, organisational, and communication skills
• Proven ability to manage teams, delegate tasks, and deliver results under pressure
• Experience with production planning, cost control, and supplier management
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to drive efficiency and growth
• Passion for food innovation and maintaining high standards of quality

If you are interested in this
Food Production Manager
opportunity in Co. Wexford, then please apply to Nikki Murran via the link below. All applications will be handled with the strictest confidence.

Call Nikki

INDNIK

Person required to work in food factory. The work requires a lot of lifting so good physical health is essential. You will be working with a team of 3-4 handing incoming raw material for further processing. The job is 4 days per week. Good personal hygiene is essential as this is a food production facility and a health certificate will be required before commencement. Ability to work in a team is important as is punctuality. Own transport would be desirable as the plant is somewhat remote, although not essential.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: €13.50-€19.44 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Licence/Certification:

• A Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Production Operative for Sage Products food production company

Duties to include

Sleeving products

Boxing Products

Pallet Building

Fork lift Driving

Processing deliveries to correct areas

Position -

Tuesday to Saturday

5 days per week

7am - 4pm

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From €640.00 per week

Benefits:

• Food allowance

Experience:

• Store management: 2 years (preferred)
• Food handling: 2 years (preferred)
• Food hygiene: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• Forklift Licence (preferred)
• Manual Handling Certificate (preferred)

Work Location: In person

The Company:

Excellent company in Tallaght are looking for 2 staff members to join their team straight away. Our client is a growing brand producing sandwiches and cold platters for corporate and privately clients nationwide.

If you are interested in getting into this field, driven and looking to progress your career then this opportunity might just be for you.

Hours of work:

Mon - 8am - 2pm

Tues - 7am - 2pm

Wed - 7am - 2pm

Thurs - 7am - 2pm

Fri - 8am - 2pm

Sat - 8am- 2pm

Sun - 8am - 2pm

Duties:

Sandwich and Cold Dish Preparation

Housekeeping

Labelling

Stock Keeping & Rotation

Packing and delivery prep

Candidate:

Positive, hardworking individual with a keen eye for detail. No need for experience as the client will provide full training.

If the above role is of interest to you, please send your updated CV today and the client will call you direct.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Pay: €13.50-€14.85 per hour

Benefits:

• Company pension

Work Location: In person

Job Description

Food Preparation Assistant

We have a role with immediate availability in our food preparation kitchen at Ballycoolin-Dublin 15.

The successful candidates should have the ability to prepare and cook a range of foods following agreed recipes. Experience in food preparation or frying cooking is beneficial. This is a Factory Kitchen Facility and only prepares foods for trade/business customers (not open to the public).

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Must be comfortable working with Food Preparation Machinery and follow all operation procedures in the course of your duties. Previous experience in a production/manufacturing distribution centre desirable.
• Working on a potato preparation line (peeling, chipping, vacuum packing etc. freshly prepared chips)
• Complete all in house company training including HACCP and manual handling etc.
• Maintain high standards of quality, hygiene, health and safety in line with company/customer/regulation specifications.
• Flexible and able to work as part of a team and individually across different departments and take on other duties when required. Must have a positive attitude to team work.
• To be physically healthy and strong. Heavy lifting required. (Manual Handling training provided).
• Assist in the follow up and implement advised corrective action of Quality assurance and health & safety reports.
• To be able to communicate in a good level of both verbal and written English

Benefits:

• Flexible working hours
• Monday to Saturday schedule
• Work day commences at 7am until roughly roughly 2/3p.m. depending on customer orders.
• On-site parking
• Sick pay
• Flexible Annual leave dates
• Weekly pay via electronic funds transfer (eft)

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Pay: €13.50 per hour

Expected hours: 20 – 40 per week

Benefits:

• Flexitime
• Food allowance
• On-site parking
• Relocation assistance
• Sick pay

Experience:

• Food preparation: 1 year (required)

Language:

• English (required)

Work Location: In person

Expected start date: 15/09/2025

General operative required for small but busy food business.

Role is on production floor preparing recipes and working with machinery and ovens.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: €15.00 per hour

Expected hours: 28 per week

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Flexitime
• On-site parking

Application question(s):

• Ability to read English

Language:

• English (required)

Work Location: In person

JOB TITLE: 1 x Food Production General Operative

General Operative required for a food production kitchen facility.

Principal duties include

-undertaking food preparation tasks, observing correct cooking times and temperatures, using cooking equipment and packing machinery.

-ensuring food is packed and stored in accordance with food hygiene and safety regulations.

-Understanding of HACCP and previous experience is desired.

-Following all health and safety guidelines

-Must be highly motivated and enthusiastic

-Have the ability to take instruction but also the ability to work on own initiative

Job Type: Full-time

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Navan, CO. Meath: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

We're currently recruiting a dedicated Food Production General Operative to help ensure the smooth running of the operations in Compass Group Ireland on a part time basis, contracted to 20 hours per week.

As a Food Production General Operative, you will use your skills to maintain a high standard of quality work. In return, you will have the chance to progress your career with a company that invests in its people, celebrates individuality, and rewards and recognises employees who go beyond the plate.

Working with us has its perks People are at the heart of everything we do, so we've developed a range of benefits and development opportunities:

• Great operational training and development
• Life assurance scheme
• Personal Development and Training opportunities - We are passionate about our growing team
• A great wellbeing strategy - including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Regular social events and communication with our leaders
• A holiday purchase scheme
• Access to some great high street discount vouchers

Here's an idea of what your shift pattern will be:

• Mon: Afternoons
• Tues: Afternoons
• Weds: Afternoons
• Thurs: Afternoons
• Fri: Afternoons
• Sat:
• Sun:

Could you bring your spark to Compass Group Ireland? Here's what you need to know before applying:

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Reponsibility 1
• Reponsibility 2

Our ideal Food Production General Operative will:

• Criteria 1
• Criteria 2

Job Reference: com/2708/ / /ROIWJ #G&G Ireland

CH&CO, a part of Compass Group UK&I, is committed to fostering an environment where every individual can truly be themselves at work and has equal opportunities to advance in their careers. We strive to build a culture that respects and celebrates the unique talents, beliefs, backgrounds, and abilities of all our team members. We want our colleagues to feel valued, empowered to reach their full potential, and to thrive - because diversity is our strength