The business is hiring for a range of skilled and unskilled roles across its business. Over and above this, Bakkavor Salads will continue to offer flexible work opportunities for local students, allowing them to earn some money while studying – an initiative that has proven to be popular since it was first introduced two years ago.
Bakkavor Salads in Bo’ness specialises in making premium salad and vegetable products for the UK’s largest grocery retailers. A major employer in the area for over 40 years, the latest recruitment drive follows a successful year of trading in 2024 and is aiming for a record ever sales year in 2025. At the start of this year, the Bo’ness based business launched 10 new salad products, as part of its healthy focus on high protein salads for 2025.
Also tying in with the nationwide celebration of apprenticeships for Scottish Apprenticeship Week, Bakkavor’s Bo’ness team has confirmed 8 new apprenticeship opportunities for 2025, as part of its award-winning Apprenticeship Programme.
Kirk Connor, General Manager, at Bakkavor Salads Bo’ness, comments: “As another new year gets underway, we are pleased to be creating more employment opportunities for people in our community. Despite the challenging economic context nationally, our business has proven to be very resilient, and we are now recruiting to support the strong business performance and product innovation achieved in the last year.”
“Aside from good rates of pay and real opportunities to progress and develop skills, we at Bakkavor Salads Bo’ness offer new joiners a range of staff benefits, including a stakeholder pension and life insurance cover, as well as heavily discounted food products from our site staff shop. For anyone looking for new employment opportunities, do get in touch - and join a successful, growing local business that looks after its people.”
For people that would like to find out more about the job opportunities at Bakkavor please go to Bakkavor.com/careers to search on roles.