Fresh prepared food manufacturer Bakkavor is recruiting for 1,500 food production vacancies across its 23 UK factories.

The company, which employs 17,000 people in the UK, produces meals, pizza, bread, desserts and salads for the country’s major supermarkets.

Bakkavor is looking to fill 680 jobs across its Lincolnshire sites, 196 in Nottingham, 148 in Kent and 139 in Bo’ness, Scotland. There are also vacancies in Somerset, Lancashire, Leicestershire, London, Wiltshire and Cheshire.

Donna-Maria Lee, chief people officer at Bakkavor, said: “At Bakkavor, we’re immensely proud of our people and I would like to thank all our colleagues that have worked so hard during the pandemic to help us maintain food supply to the nation, helping to keep the supermarket shelves stocked at a critical time.

“As we re-emerge from lockdown, we have a wide range of jobs available at a large number of our well-established sites, all offering great career development opportunities. It’s important we continue to invest in the communities where we do business and we hope our employment drive will help many families to rebuild their lives after more than a year of lockdown.”

Bakkavor also invests in developing the skills of young people through its award-winning apprenticeship and graduate training programmes.

For more information on the jobs being created visit www.bakkavor.com/careers.