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We’re excited to be hiring a Food Operations Manager for our busy and highly organised production kitchen!
As a company, we’re passionate about fresh food, brilliant customer service and providing a fair and supportive work environment for our staff.
As our Food Operations Manager you'll lead by example on being hard working, practical, reliable, punctual and passionate about excellent food safety and hygiene practices. You'll work with our long standing team of experienced chefs to complete from-scratch food production to a high standard and have the experience and problem solving skills to make adjustments to our procedures when required.
You'll be able to gain competency in all areas of the kitchen operation quickly due to being a capable and experienced cook with quick and efficient knife and organisational skills. This will allow you to move on to managing all areas of the kitchen and its driving responsibilities while maintaining accountability for food quality, food safety, cleaning standards and timekeeping across the team.
You'll be responsible for our driving route which operates across Glasgow to stock our shops twice daily. You'll maintain responsibility for the oversight of this role as a part of the kitchen operation; our food is produced and delivered by our team of chefs.
You should be comfortable working with numbers as you’ll be receiving orders from our retail sites, using this information to ensure the operation is accurately producing and dispatching the required volumes of food.
The volume of fresh food that we process is large - successful applicants will be comfortable in manual handling of high volumes of ingredients and moving large quantities of them around our kitchen safely.
Responsibilities will include placing stock orders, ensuring cleaning and hygiene standards are maintained to an exceptional standard, completing kitchen records, and managing the workload of yourself and others as well as driving a large Luton style van when required.
Operational continuity, maintaining great work relationships and monitoring the kitchen's spending on ingredients and hours will be responsibilities that come naturally to you, with past experience in a similar role.
The role is ideally suited to an established chef manager who is looking to take back their evenings and benefit from the work-life balance offered by a predictable and organised schedule. You'll enjoy the autonomy our company ethos enables for the role yet appreciate a transparent, honest and supportive work environment. You'll still have that love for working with food but will enjoy the challenge of also having the more varied and diverse responsibilities that come with working in a small yet very busy business.
The salary on offer is open to negotiation dependant on what you can bring to the role.
The interview process for this role is multi-stage, beginning with a self guided online video interview.
Job benefits include:
- Spacious and modern professional kitchen
- Organised, well planned and structured workload
- Daytime hours with early start; shifts are 0500-1500
- Free on-site parking
- Secure full-time contract
- Paid breaks and 28 days annual leave
- Staff meals and drinks provided every shift
- Free food and drinks when off shift at our shop locations
Successful candidates will demonstrate:
- Punctuality in arriving at work, meeting deadlines throughout the shift and finishing work on time - our managers lead by example on this at all times
- A detailed understanding and past experience of maintaining exceptional food hygiene practices
- The ability to positively lead and coach an established hard working team
- The ability to follow established recipes precisely and produce predetermined quantities of food and control the output of a team on the required quality
- The ability to troubleshoot and problem solve when things don't go exactly to plan
- A willingness to lead on the participation in an organised cleaning rota and undertake the necessary tasks
- A conscientious, positive and engaging manner
- Competency in using a computer and iPad and various software such as Excel/Sheets, as well as excellent written communication skills
- Safe, cautious driving of our large van
A Full Driving License is mandatory for this role.
Hours: 40 per week
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From £34,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free parking
Application question(s):
- What date are you available to start work from?
- Are you experienced in using knives and other kitchen equipment to prepare large volumes of food?
- Why would you like to work with us?
- Are you able to regularly work on all days of the week excluding Sundays?
- Our kitchen is located in Parkhead. Are you able to reliably start work in this location at 5am? How will you commute? Please be aware of public transport limitations at this time of the morning.
- The hiring process for this role requires completion of a self guided online interview. Are you able to complete this next stage?
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
