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Head Baker - Surplus Food Bakery

The Felix Project
Acton, London

Posted: 13 Jun 2025

Deadline: 27 Jul 2025

Compensation: £35,000 – £38,500 per year

Living Wage employer

Paid Full-time

Job description

This is a brand new operation within our wider foot print of kitchens and food production, baking skills is important but the person and the attitude will always win through! 

About Felix Bakes

• In mid-2025 we will open our third production faciality, Felix Bakes. A small operation designed to help us rescue more surplus food and turn it into high value baked goods
• All these goods we make will go back to our brand-new West London Depot, based in the same trading estate and then delivered to some of the 1,200 Community Organisations we support around London 
• A particular focus will be on seasonal produce gluts (carrots, courgettes, potatoes), meaning we can ensure more of this produce does not go to waste and add value to the people we support across London
• It will work in partnership with our second production faciality The Felix Food Factory, which will be able to process and/or freeze some of these seasonal gluts into an easier to use format for Felix Bakes
• We are launching this operation in partnership with Deliveroo, who have gifted us the use of this space.
• The Felix Bakes Kitchen, is a unit within a wider “dark” kitchen site, which has onsite support and management of the whole unit

Purpose of the Job

To be the driving force and manager of this new operation, you will join a brand-new operation with the chance to put your stamp on it and drive it forward into the future. Whilst having the support structure of the wider Felix Production teams and West London Depot Operations team.

You will be the manager of this site and have overall responsibility for its day to day running, it is a hands-on role with most of the working day spent in the kitchen and running the bakery unit. At the beginning of the operation, you will be the only permanent employee there, but this team will expand to add an additional junior baker once fully operational. However, there is the Depot team and the wider production team who will be supporting the day to day as well.

We are a volunteer lead operation so you will have volunteers working alongside you to support the operation.

Application information

Hello, I hope reading about this job has made you as excited as we are about this new operation! 

If you would like to apply for the role, please use the link; https://hr.breathehr.com/recruitment/vacancies/41275?identifier=thefelixproject

If you would prefer to have an informal chat about it first, please reach out to me on the below and we will arrange a time to speak: nick.kerle@thefelixproject.org

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Nick Kerle 

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