Operations Coordinator; Depositing & Dispatch

Are you looking for an opportunity to grow your career in a fast-paced, ambitious food business? Do you enjoy leading a team, solving problems on the production floor, and making sure operations run smoothly? If you're passionate about food production, efficiency, and delivering high-quality products to customers, we'd love to hear from you. We're Planthood, one of the UK's fastest-growing health food companies.

Our mission is simple: to help people live healthier, happier lives by making delicious plant-based whole foods more accessible. From our production kitchen in East London, we prepare and deliver thousands of meals across the UK every week. Since launching from Hilary & Will's kitchen in 2020, we've cooked over 4 million meals, appeared on BBC Dragons' Den, and grown by more than 300% year-on-year.

The Operations Coordinator (Depositing & Dispatch) is responsible for coordinating and leading one of the most important areas of Planthood's production operation. Our production process is divided into two key departments:
Kitchen Production and Packing & Dispatch Production. Once our chefs have prepared sauces and meal components, your team takes over. You'll oversee the depositing process, ensuring our chef made sauces are accurately portioned into pouches using our Riggs Autopack depositing machines, before being sealed using our continuous stand-up sealing machine and prepared for dispatch. As Planthood continues to scale, you'll help lead the introduction of our new twin-head depositing machine and support the launch of our hot filling operation, playing an important role in the next phase of our production growth.

You'll coordinate a small production team, keep production running efficiently, maintain high food safety and quality standards, and ensure customer orders are produced accurately and on time. This role combines production coordination, team leadership, equipment ownership, food safety, operational reporting and continuous improvement. Working closely with Production, Quality Control, Warehouse and Operations teams, you'll play a key role in ensuring products move efficiently through production and into our customers' homes.

• Coordinate daily depositing and packing operations to achieve production targets..
• Allocate tasks and manage workflow across the team throughout the shift..
• Monitor productivity, efficiency and output during production runs..
• Adapt production plans in real time to respond to operational changes..
• Ensure production plans are completed accurately and on schedule..
• Lead by example and create a positive, motivated and accountable team culture..

• Coordinate the daily operation of our Riggs Autopack Model 1000 depositing machines..
• Ensure hot and cold sauces are deposited accurately and consistently..
• Oversee the sealing process using our continuous stand-up sealing machine..
• Ensure packaging, sealing and labelling standards are maintained..
• Monitor allergen controls and food safety procedures throughout production..
• Minimise waste and maximise production efficiency..
• Support new product launches and production trials..

• Become the operational owner of the depositing and sealing equipment..
• Carry out machine start-up, shut-down and routine operational checks..
• Troubleshoot day-to-day equipment issues and resolve minor faults where possible..
• Escalate maintenance issues where required and work with relevant teams to minimise downtime..
• Support the implementation of new equipment and production technologies..

• Coordinate finished goods counts and dispatch readiness..
• Ensure…