Careers at Prima Cheese
Come and be one of the family
Want to join our team of cheesy superstars? We’ve often got a whole host of opportunities to join our growing team at our HQ in Seaham, County Durham. With 13 departments and roles in our beautiful offices and state of the art factory, we have openings for ambitious and driven team players who thrive off a challenge and love working with a friendly (and cheese obsessed) team.
When you join us at Prima, you join our family, and we can’t wait to have you!
Life at Prima Cheese
Modern Workspace & Gardens
Do your best work in awesome surroundings. Our newly refurbished offices, state of the art factory and tranquil landscaped gardens offer the perfect environment for work.
Great work/life balance
With generous holiday allowances, a long service holiday scheme, flexible working and no weekends, find more time for you and your family.
Onsite parking
No scrambling around for a parking space and with electric charging points too, you can charge whilst you work.
Friendly, Family Atmosphere
Feel like one of the family alongside a friendly, welcoming team, and regular charity fundraisers, socials and games.
Loads of opportunities to grow
We're growing rapidly and we can't wait for you to grow with us. There's tons of opportunities to progress, train and learn.
Cycle to work scheme
If you like to get on the saddle and cycle to work, we can help you out.
Recognition & Reward
We regularly reward our staff with awards like Employee of the Month.
Work for an award winner
We've won multiple awards over the years recognising our team's acheivments globally including the prestigious Queen's Award.
Safety & Hygiene
We're proudly BRCGS AA Accredited meaning our factory and workspace operates to the highest food hygiene standards.
Free Pizza*
Our own on-site pizza test kitchen tests our cheese daily = free pizzas! *when available
Chosen Charity
Make a real difference in our community with our chosen charity. From salary donations to volunteering opportunities.
State of the Art Tech
We make sure you have state of the art technology and equipment as well as bespoke systems and machinery to make doing your job easy and straight forward.
and plenty more benefits too!
Our Production Operatives are all provided with the PPE they need to do their jobs on their first day in the role. The role pays above the national living wage. A lot of our Production Operatives have moved up to line leaders and supervisors and progression among our employees at Prima is something we are very proud of and encourage.
At Prima we like to raise money for our chosen charities and in 2021 we raised £1,250 for the Red Sky Ball Foundation. We love to do themed events every month and have hosted events including quizzes, bingo and fancy-dress competitions.
We are delighted to have won several awards at Prima, including our Inspiring Female Employer of the Year award, our several Export awards and the prestigious Queen’s Award.
Each and every member of the team is recognised for the work they do and the awards they help us to win. To celebrate our Queen’s award, we stopped the production lines and gathered the entire team of over 160 for a celebration in the sunshine, with a street food lunch.
We are also very proud of our zero percent gender pay gap at Prima and we pay everyone equally based on the job they do.
We’ve employed people from over 28 countries and our workforce is made up of individuals from all over the world and from all walks of life.
At Prima we are proud of our training facilities and state of the art training room and engineering workshop. We believe in developing talent within the company and offer development opportunities in all areas of the company. Our Management Accountant, Transport Supervisor and Raw Materials Coordinator to name but a few have all progressed through the ranks at Prima.
Our FED committee (Fairness, Equality & Diversity) works to promote inclusivity and offers a safe space for employees to raise any concerns.


Current Vacancies
Take a look at our current opportunities
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Keep checking back as we’re always adding new opportunities and looking for talented people to join our team.
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