Food Operative Colchester

Job Introduction

Are you looking for the kind of role where your employer helps your define your own career path, where the doors of opportunity are wide open to everyone, where your journey is as exciting as your destination and where you have the opportunity to try multiple roles to help you decide your next steps? Look no further.

We are recruiting food operatives from all backgrounds, no experience necessary. What we are looking for is a will to succeed and develop. You give us your hunger and we will help you map a pathway to develop your career through practical on-the-job experience, targeted training through our National Apprenticeship program that compliments your direction of travel, and regular one-to-one support sessions.

Working across our catering and retail locations in Merville Barracks Colchester, you will have the chance to try your hand at batch cooking in a custom built production facility, working in coffee shops, bars, restaurants and retail stores, before deciding which role you want to progress into next. You might want to be a chef; you might want to be a mess manager; you might want to be a project manager or the head of a department. Whatever path you choose, we’ll give you the tools and support to turn your work life into a successful career.

There’s lots of other perks we could shout about too, like our subsidised menu that offers you delicious and nutritious lunches at a fraction of high street prices, free parking, the chance to take annual leave over school holidays (yes, including Christmas!) and award winning employee benefits and rewards schemes, but we’d rather focus on you! What are you waiting for?

Role Responsibility

• To complete all food related tasks as instructed and where necessary, assist with food and retail services
• To continue to develop one’s own skills and knowledge within the position
• To complete all Company training as instructed
• To carry out any reasonable request of a member of the management team
• To comply with Company policies and procedures at all times
• Ensure that robust control procedures are maintained so as to minimise wastage
• To strictly follow and adhere to all Hygiene and Cleaning procedures
• To keep accurate records as required for any given activity
• To adhere to manufacturing Cook Chill principles, policies and procedures

The Ideal Candidate

Required:

• Determination to progress
• Flexibility to work in multiple locations
• Positive outlook (We love our customers and we want them to know it!)

Desirable:

• Level 1 Food safety (But don’t sweat it. If you don’t have it, we’ll train you)
• Experience in food preparation

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process