Production Assistant

Hourly rate in line with London Living Wage at £14.80. Flexible shifts with minimum 27 hours p/week. Based at our Islington roastery (N7 9DP) with alternating shifts 6am to 3pm and 8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. Potential weekend shifts may be required.

The production team are our last step in supplying great tasting, well presented coffee on-time to our online, out-of-home and retail customers. They are responsible for bagging our range of roasted coffees in line with the daily production plan and our quality standards on the newly automated vertical form fill seal machine. Plus, fulfilling and packing all orders accurately and in advance of courier collections. All whilst maintaining excellent food safety standards, accurate inventory levels and stock takes.

Responsibilities:

• Vertical form fill seal: supporting Production Technical Manager with running the new production line, managing changeovers, troubleshooting any challenges with the machinery.
• Bagging and packaging coffee: executing daily production plan with high attention to detail, ensuring accurate packaging, batch codes and dates are applied.
• Packing and fulfilling orders: picking D2C and B2B orders accurately and efficiently to support on-time despatch with delivery providers.
• Stock control: maintaining accurate daily stock levels and carrying out monthly stock takes to aide cost of sales reporting and availability planning.
• Machinery maintenance & cleaning: executing daily and weekly maintenance schedule in line with SOPs, troubleshooting any challenges with machinery.
• Goods-in put away: organising items received into roastery into storage location and accounting for this on Unleashed inventory platform with supervisor.
• Roastery floor orderliness & cleanliness: ensuring that all production items have a place and are organised well for the workflow, keeping high standards of cleanliness and tidiness on the production floor.
• Health & Safety, SALSA compliance: maintaining a safe and compliant environment by wearing provided PPE & uniforms, keeping foreign objects, food, uncovered drinks and glass off production floor.

Personal requirements:

• Team player: You’ll be working with the wider production, roasting and customer service team to keep production and fulfilment running on track.
• Technically minded with experience working on automated production lines e.g. vertical form fill seal.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to consistently execute our quality standards.
• Self-sufficient problem solver.
• Comfortable with working to tight daily courier and production deadlines.
• Health & safety and food safety trained.
• High standards of cleanliness and presentation.
• Stock control knowledge.
• Strong IT literacy.
• Production or warehouse fulfilment experience.

To say thank you for working with us, we also offer our teams:

• Roastery team lunch on a Wednesday.
• 50% off all food in our Brew Bars.
• Dining discount when visiting our restaurants.
• All of the coffee you can drink on site.
• Weekly allowance of coffee for home.
• Bike to work scheme.
• Mental health and well-being support.
• Financial health education and support.
• Leadership training and development.
• Birthday & Anniversary Treat: on your birthday and work anniversary, you'll receive a Caravan voucher to spend in any of our restaurants.
• Development and career progression: 80% of all our management roles are filled internally.

Sustainability: We expect our teams to support environmental stewardship targets and efficiency goals by following departmental environmental policies and monitoring own usage of vital resources such as energy, disposable goods, and food waste, to name a few.

Diversity & Inclusion: All our teams must respect individual differences with regards to identity, national and cultural background, and level of experience in all interactions while at work, including with members of the public.