MIX AND WEIGH - Team Leader - Sun–Thu 10pm – 6am

COOK TRADING LTD; Sittingbourne; On-site; GBP 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A family-owned food company in Sittingbourne is seeking a Team Leader for the MIX AND WEIGH team. In this role, you will ensure food quality, lead your team, and communicate effectively with other departments. The ideal candidate has kitchen experience, good communication skills, and is motivated to grow with the company. Attractive benefits include paid breaks, free meals, and a profit-sharing scheme.

Benefits

Paid breaks

Free cooked from fresh lunch

Free car park

Paid leave on special occasions

Staff profit share

Wellbeing program

30% staff discount

Access to CookieJar Smart Spending discounts

Team meals, events & away days

Qualifications

• Experience of working within a kitchen and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all components of the dish are high quality and correct specification.
• Sign off relevant paperwork and input information correctly in the internal database.
• Keep team updated with new products and communicate targets.
• Train all team members, including agency workers, in their roles.
• Organise the team's workload and liaise effectively with departments.
• Update Head Chef on team progress and raise concerns promptly.
• Conduct 121 meetings and lead through fair and consistent leadership.

Skills

Good communication skills

Education

NVQ Level 2 in Catering

Job description

MIX AND WEIGH - Team Leader

Location: Sittingbourne, Kent - COOK Classics Kitchen

Hours: Sunday – Thursday 10pm – 6am

Pay rate : £31,907.20/ £14.10 (yes this include paid breaks)

Lead with Purpose – Join Our MIX AND WEIGH team ! Our Mix & Weigh team are the step between cooking and dishing and the step that ensures our customers food is safe and other teams workflow doesn’t stop. By safeguarding our products, monitoring chill times and doing the final checks before dishing, you help create our Remarkable products. Not only that, you provide a service that ensures our customer get consistency every time they enjoy our delicious food.

The Role

• Use your knowledge of our food to ensure that all components of the dish are of the correct specification and high quality.
• Sign off all relevant paperwork and ensure information on unity (internal database) has been inputted correctly
• Communication is key. Ensure that you keep your team up to date with new products coming through the kitchen and team targets are communicated – everyone needs to be working towards the same goal.
• You must ensure that all members of your team (including agency workers) are trained in all aspects of their role. This includes, all machinery, health and safety, and all relevant work instructions.
• Organise the teams work load, review frequently and liaise with your team and other departments to ensure the best utilisation of staff and equipment
• Update the Head Chef regularly on the teams progress and raise any concerns you have without unnecessary delay
• Team Leadership - Develop good relations through fair and consistent leadership Conduct all necessary 121 meetings with your team whilst continually showcasing and living by our Essential Ingredients

Good to Have

• Good communication skills
• NVQ Level 2 (or equivalent) in Catering would be great, but not essential however, you will need experience of working within a kitchen and fast paced environment.

Excellent Benefits including

• Paid breaks
• free cooked from fresh lunch for all employees
• Free car park
• Paid leave on your birthdays, moving house, become grandparent or your child starts school for the first time
• staff profit share
• Wellbeing program
• 30% staff discount
• Access to CookieJar Smart Spending discounts and free food perks.
• Team meals , events & away days
• Be part of a B-Corp-certified business that values sustainability, people, and the community.
• And many more ‿.

What Cook is About

We’re a proudly independent, family-owned B Corp, which basically means we care. A lot. About our food. About our people. And about doing the right thing—even when it’s not the easy thing.

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.