Night Leader

Night Leader £36,000 - £40,000

Sunday to Thursday, 10pm to 6am.

Purpose:

Leading the entire Nights Kitchen teams in helping to deliver high quality and attractive meals and to work within the Kitchen Leadership Team to deliver Britain’s Best Kitchen.

Main responsibilities:

Site Leadership

• As part of the Kitchen Leadership Team, contribute to the development and delivery of the plans to deliver the vision of Britain’s Best Kitchens
• Provide expertise and guidance within the team to drive efficiency and optimum stock levels
• Work with the Head Chef, Production Manager, Technical Lead, Site planner and the Lead Engineer to develop and deliver Continuous Improvement activities within the kitchen

Lead Remarkable People:

• Role model safe behaviour

• Deliver site Health and Safety improvement plans

• Deliver the expected GMP scores by working closely with all kitchen’s areas in following rules

• Ensure fully trained and competent teams and deliver plans to support development of future stars

• Complete regular check-in’s with direct team at least weekly, providing content for their 1:1’s with their Heads of Department

• Mentor and support Ops Academy activities and attendees

• Be constantly visible in the kitchen and role model COOK values

• Drive utilisation of team selfies and contracts

• Ensure the delivery of weekly Huddles and a regular recognitions culture

• Implement co-created practices to deliver “Best Company” results

Deliver Awesome Efficiency:

• Assist in managing and delivering the kitchen budget and daily production plans and ensure delivery to financial product standard costs

• Lead activities to Continuously Improve performance

Drive for Zero Waste

• Identify and implement plans to reduce food waste

• Actively seek to reduce energy and water usage throughout the kitchen

• Implement plans to support delivery of other sustainability goals

Present a Kitchen Mindset

• Role model a Kitchen Mindset regarding general standards and food quality

Ensure active engagement in the Taste Panel – the “Most Important Meeting in the Kitchen*”

• Develop and deliver activities to “engage with food”

Good to have :

• Food Safety level 3

• IOSH trained

• Understanding of Continuous Improvement techniques

• Experience in team and individual leadership

• Good communicator with suitable IT Skills

About COOK

COOK is a pioneering frozen food company, since 1997 we’ve been making remarkable food for your freezer, prepared by hand at our Kitchens in Kent (savoury) and Somerset (puddings) using the same ingredients and techniques you would at home. It means our food looks and tastes homemade maybe even a bit better.

We’re market leaders and (more importantly) our food tastes incredible. We have over 90 shops and a rapidly growing online business.

We’re independent (family-owned) and always will be because it allows us to do things the right way, not the fast way. We believe in business as a force for good in society and have certified as one of the UK’s first B Corporations to help us measure what matters when it comes to our impact on our environment, our people and our community.

We share 5% of our annual profits with staff.

Other bits

Excellent Benefits including paid breaks, free food, CookieJar Smart Spending discounts on leading brands, profit share, 30% staff discount and birthdays off and much more.

Due to some lone working you will need to be over 18.

Ask us about flexible working.

Our vision for COOK has always been that we are a place where EVERYONE is welcome. We want everyone to feel like they belong at COOK. We all have different roles, different abilities and different personalities. By collaborating we can do remarkable things. Whatever your story, if you would like to grow with COOK please apply.

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