Sauce Cook Operative

Great opportunity to work as a Sauce Cook Operative to join our client's Low-Risk Cook & Prep Department to provide support in the production and manufacture of ready meals.

Staffline is recruiting Sauce Cook Operatives in Erith.

The rate of pay is £13.11 per hour.

Overtime is available and is paid at £19.67 per hour.

This is a full-time role working fixed shifts and the hours of work are:
- 6am to 6pm
- 6pm to 6am

Starting at Grade 5, after fully trained in 3 months - opportunity for Grade 7!

Your Time at Work

As a Sauce Cook Operative you will be working in a multi-skilled role where you will train across all cook pots to maintain production requirements. Ensuring that quality, hygiene and safety standards are always maintained. Recording of CCP's and completion of process sheets. This role entails a fair amount of manual labour.

Key duties include:

- Produce Quality cooked material to the specification recorded on the process sheet. To complete all documentation associated with the cooking processes to the standard required.
- Take personal responsibility for ingredients and raw materials once they have been weighed off by the veg prep team. To have in depth knowledge of ALL materials used in the cooking processes.
- Load ingredients into the cook pots in strict adherence to the process sheet. And cook product.
- Follow the 'Taste As You Go' process to ensure at each sauce's attributes: taste, appearance and viscosity standards are with spec.
- Attend sensory evaluation sessions and use the knowledge gained to ensure that sauces are cooked to the correct specification.
- Supply High Risk Batching/Assembly with the correctly cooked ingredients at the time it is required.
- Keep the work environment safe and clean to the standard required by health and safety and hygiene legislation.

Our Perfect Worker

Our perfect worker will have good problem solving skills, the ability to use your own initiative and also be able to work as part of a team. You will be punctual, reliable and have good communication skills.

Applicants will have the willingness to undertake personal development initiatives to achieve personal and organizational objectives while showing good attention to detail.

You must be physically fit to work in faced paced Food production environment.

Experience gained in manufacturing or hospitality kitchens is desirable but not essential as full training is provided.

Key Information and Benefits

- Earn £13.11 - £19.67 per hour
- Fixed shifts
- Temp to perm opportunity
- OnSite support from Staffline
- Canteen on site
- Free car parking on site
- Good links to public transport
- PPE provided
- Full training provided

Job Ref: 1FERN

About Staffline

Staffline is the UK's largest recruitment solutions partner, enabling over 35,000 people into good work every week. We operate at more than 420 customer sites across England, Scotland and Wales.

As one of the most established recruitment agencies in Nottingham with operations across the UK, we specialise in connecting businesses with temporary and permanent jobs across warehouse & logistics, food and drink, aviation, driving, technical & engineering, manufacturing & automotive and security.
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