Food giant Bakkavor has revealed it is looking to hire more than 100 people across its North West sites.
The company is seeking to add 44 staff to its base in Crewe, 42 in Wigan and a further 35 in Aston, Cheshire.
The recruitment drive is part of a national push to hire 1,801 people across its UK operations.
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Bakkavor works with a number of the UK’s major supermarkets, producing fresh prepared meals, desserts, salads, pizza and bread.
Chief people officer Donna-Maria Lee said: "We are delighted to be opening our doors to brilliant new colleagues within the local communities in which we are based.
"We offer a wide range of jobs available at a large number of our well-established sites, all offering career development opportunities as well as great benefits.
"All of our employees across our 23 sites in the UK benefit from first class training programmes which are focused on career progression and individual development.
"The application process for all roles is now open and we have already started interviewing a number of enthusiastic candidates.
"We very much look forward to meeting more applicants and we hope that the roles we have available are able to turn into long term careers."