Production Kitchen

**Job Title**: Packing Assistant

**Responsible To**: Kitchen Manager

**Contract Type**: Permanent, Full-time

**Salary**: £27,007,50

**Location**: Poplar, East London

**Hours of work**: 37.5 hours per week, Shift basis - 4 or 5 days out of 6. Either 4 x 10-hour days or 5 x 8-hour days. Occasionally we will operate on Sundays, but ordinarily we are closed on Sundays.

**The Felix Project can only employee applicants who currently have the right to work in the UK.**

**Recruitment timeline**

**Applications close**: 22nd January 2025.

**PLEASE NOTE: This is a kitchen-based packing role, which will require a lot of customer service ‘people skills’.**

**About The Felix Project**

The Felix Project is London's biggest food redistribution charity and the largest end-to-end food redistribution charity in Europe.

Our vision is a London where no one goes hungry and good food is never wasted.

We rescue surplus food from businesses, supermarkets, restaurants, and farms. This food is nutritious, in-date, and safe and includes a high proportion of fresh vegetables, fruit, meat and fish. If we did not rescue this food, it would be at risk of going to waste. Instead, we deliver it free of charge to London charities, schools, food banks, and other organisations serving people in need.

Our food is a vital lifeline for children and families, people on low incomes, people who have lost their jobs, the homeless, refugees, domestic abuse survivors, the elderly and keyworkers. Last year, the Felix Kitchen made and distributed over 1.1 million meals to help people in need.

**Purpose of the Job**

As a Packing Assistant, your role is to assist the Head of Packing & Kitchen Management with the smooth running of the packing area of Felix’s Kitchen and the correct packing, storing and distribution of all meals and components. You also assist the Senior Chefs in the smooth running of the kitchen. You are responsible for maintaining the quality and standards of the kitchen and ensuring that all meals and/or components of meals are packed correctly.

You will assist other staff and volunteers when they need help, ensuring the smooth running of the operation.

**Duties and Accountabilities**
- Responsible for the smooth running of the packing area of Felix’s Kitchen
- Contributing to achieving production targets

Assist the Head of Packing and Kitchen Managers
- Assist in ensuring that the quality of the cooked and packed meals is up to our high standards
- Assist with recording all data and HACCP requiremen
- Learn and adopt the duty rota toles within the team
- Ensure that your area of the kitchen is kept clean and tidy
- Acting as a local ambassador for The Felix Project

**Person Specification**

You have a good work ethic. You are willing to learn and ensure standards are kept. You have a passion to be part of a charity that is expanding rapidly and you thrive is a busy environment. You will have a desire to help reduce food waste and/or fight food poverty. You will enjoy the variety of working with a diverse team and an ever-changing workforce of volunteers.

**Essential skills/knowledge relevant to this role**
- Physical energy
- Ability to work within a team of varied individuals with a positive attitude
- You can work well under pressure and achieve goals
- Good PC skills
- Willingness to engage in physical work as part of your daily job
- Very strong ethics and ability to keep high standards

**Desirable skills/knowledge relevant to this role**
- Commitment to reducing food waste and fighting food poverty
- Flexibility in terms of working hours

**What you’ll get in return**

You will be working in an upbeat, innovative charity with strong vision and ambition. You will be working in an organisation with a fantastic culture and inspiring leadership team.