About the Role
Dishpatch is seeking a detail-oriented Food Inventory Specialist with a strong understanding of Food Safety principles to manage inventory, ensure compliance, and maintain cold chain integrity within a food manufacturing environment. This role is crucial for managing stock levels, processing deliveries, conducting inventory checks, and ensuring efficient stock control.
Responsibilities
- Uphold Food Safety & Traceability: Ensure correct product labelling is printed and applied strictly in line with food safety and traceability requirements.
- Support HACCP Compliance: Actively support the day-to-day management of HACCP and related Food Management systems.
- Critical Intake Inspections: Inspect all incoming goods, verifying quantities, documentation, quality, and temperature controls.
- Cold Chain & Storage Management: Safely manage all storage spaces, ensuring correct transfer of finished products to appropriate chilled, frozen, or ambient locations.
- Chef Collaboration: Support production chefs with the hands-on management of ingredients inside fridges and freezers.
- Inventory Accuracy: Maintain accountability for production inventory and execute accurate stock takes to align inventory value with business budgets.
Requirements
- Food Safety Knowledge: Level 2 Award in Food safety.
- Operations Experience: Strong experience in inventory management principles, stock control, and warehouse operations.
- Uncompromising Accuracy: High attention to detail with strong numerical and analytical skills.
- Problem Solving: An action-oriented approach, capable of tackling complex issues logically and prioritizing urgent next steps.
- Experience in a similar role, ideally within a food-related setting.
- Strong IT and analytical mindset.
Skills
- Food Safety
- Inventory Management
- Stock Control
- Warehouse Operations
- Analytical Skills
- Attention to Detail
- Problem Solving
- IT Skills
- Food Allergens
- Food Ingredients
Location
- North Greenwich, London, SE10 0AT
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full time
- Up to 40 Hours per week
Experience Level
- Up to £32,000 depending on experience
Education Level
- Level 2 Award in Food safety
Salary/Compensations
- £29,000.00 - £44,300.00 Annual
- Salary up to £32,000 depending on experience
Benefits
- Night Premium at a rate of £4.25 per hour for time worked between 22:00 - 06:00.
- Flexible working options may be available.
About the Company
- Dishpatch collaborates with the UK's top chefs to deliver their restaurant creations to food enthusiasts nationwide.
- We work with renowned chefs to produce restaurant-quality meals that customers can easily finish and serve to family and friends at home.
- We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose.
- We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world.
- As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards.
- We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.
- We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong.
- Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE.
- Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.
- As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.
- At the John Lewis Partnership we’re not just employees; we’re co-owners, and that’s why we’re called Partners.
- Being a Partner means not only do we all collectively share the responsibilities of being the UK’s largest employee-owned business, but we also share in its rewards and successes.
- It’s this ownership model that makes the Partnership a very unique place to work.
Equal Opportunity
- Some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates).
- DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.
- We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working.
- This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible.
- Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.
