Active Staffing Limited places permanent staff for food production, FMCG, beverage, bakery, meat & seafood processing, and cold-chain logistics employers across the UK. Production, quality, hygiene, warehouse, distribution.
Vetted, properly briefed candidates for the production lines, cold stores, distribution centres and quality teams that keep UK food and FMCG moving.
Production operatives, line leaders, shift supervisors, quality assurance and hygiene teams.
Cold store operatives, refrigerated transport planners, temperature-controlled distribution leads.
Production operatives, packaging leads, planning, scheduling and stock controllers.
Brewers, beverage production operatives, bottling and canning line operators.
Bakers, confectioners, ovens leads, scaling and dough-mixing operatives, packing teams.
Filleters, processors, packers, quality leads and refrigerated despatch coordinators.
Boners, butchers, line operatives, slaughterhouse hygiene leads and dispatch supervisors.
Warehouse operatives, FLT-licensed staff, despatch supervisors and transport planners.
Maintenance engineers, multi-skilled engineers, automation leads and reliability technicians.
QA technicians, NPD specialists, BRC auditors, hygiene team leaders and HACCP-trained leads.
HGV Class 1 and 2 drivers, transport planners, fleet managers and licensed delivery teams.
Cleaning team leaders, CIP specialists, hygiene technicians and shift supervisors.
We brief properly, vet thoroughly, and stand behind the people we send. No CV firehose. No mismatched candidates.
One consultant from intake to start day. They know your site, the shift patterns, the team mix. No handoffs.
Most production briefs receive their first qualified shortlist within a week. Urgent cover briefs flagged on day one move to the top.
Every permanent placement carries a free replacement period. If a hire doesn't stick within the agreed window, we re-run the search at no charge.
For food and cold-chain roles we screen for HACCP awareness, hygiene training, and willingness to work in low-temperature or high-care environments.
Right-to-work, references, qualifications, motivation, all checked before a CV reaches your desk. No noise.
Our entire desk is geared around hires that stay, the brief, the vetting, the offer support, and the day-7 / 30 / 90 follow-ups, all built to keep the placement in seat.
A clear three-step process. No drawn-out kick-offs, no dropped balls.
A 30-45 minute briefing call. We capture the role, the shift pattern, the must-haves, the deal-breakers, the salary band and the timeline. You get a written brief back to confirm.
We approach our network and active candidates, vet, interview and rank. You receive a tight, qualified shortlist with our notes on hygiene training, shift fit and availability.
We handle counter-offer pressure, notice-period coordination and start-date logistics, then check in on day 7, 30 and 90 to make sure the hire is settled.
Production sites, cold stores and 3PL distribution centres we recruit into most often. Remote-first and nationwide briefs equally welcome.