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Recruitment in the Food and Drink Industry

In the Food Industry only one voice is important - your customer's.

We are the production and engineering specialists. Seventeen years in the manufacturing recruitment marketplace has taught us a great deal about customers and companies in the food manufacturing and food service sectors. We have 20 years experience of food and drink recruitment.

For example we know how critical even fifteen minutes late with an order is to your ongoing relationship with your customers.

We understand how demanding supermarkets and large retail chains are with their suppliers. We know all about penalty clauses, clawbacks and supplier audits.

We are well aware how sickness and unexpected workload peaks, rework jobs and incorrect order picking can play havoc with your reputation.

We know the importance of food hygiene, Good Manufacturing Practice, Food Hygiene Certificates and good housekeeping. We are well aware your customers can descend on your site with little or no notice to audit Food Environmental Legislation.

We know this because we have been there with our customers as a partner - sharing the problems and the triumphs with them.

That is why we have put together our food and drink service to reflect the particular demands of your business and the challenges facing food manufacturers in the UK.

Through Food Industry Benchmarking we are able to provide labour solutions that relate directly to issues of Food Quality, Food Industry Auditing and Food Legislation.

Service Elements

1. Full inductions can be tailored to your organisation. These may be held in your local Kinetic office or on your own site. Typically inductions include - a site tour paying particular attention to fire regulations and working environment, GMP, good housekeeping procedures, manual handling, Health and Safety, the importance of personal hygiene and a brief history of the company including food import and food export issues, augmented by an Induction Manual that all workers must sign for to prove to you and your customers they have been fully inducted into working within food process environments.

2. Catersafe Training. If required all workers can undertake a Catersafe course that is validated by the Food Hygiene Bureau. The course content covers current legislation, personal hygiene, bacteria and spoilage, storage temperatures and good practice. Each worker is issued with a unique identity card to prove that he or she has received the training.

3. Medical screening and/or stool testing can be arranged prior to workers starting.

4. Manual dexterity testing may be carried out on all workers using the Stronberg Dexterity Test. This is particularily useful for high volume packing areas (ie tablets or small food items) as it is benchmarked against your own people to determine a minimum acceptable standard.
   This is all in addition to our standard recruitment process of telephone vetting, application form, aptitude test, interview and full work reference.

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The service doesn't stop there…

Once we have screened workers and got them onto your premises we work hard to ensure our service meets your demanding requirements.

Innovations include -

• A Service Level Agreement will be drawn up to benchmark our service against your own staff. We will then monitor worker turnover, no-shows, absenteeism, punctuality, accuracy of invoicing and so on to make sure they fall well within acceptable levels. Should this ever happen we will come to you with solutions - not problems.

• We understands the importance of our workers to both you and us. To this end we regularily mailshot our workers whilst on site to monitor the morale levels of our workers. By doing this we will head off potential problems before they affect productivity.

• We also perform "worker surgeries" on site at an agreed frequency. This means our workers know any wage or tax queries will be sorted on site, at source. No leaving the line to make endless phonecalls to the office.

• Our unique "Quest For Quality" forms are designed to build into a permanent record of the skills, abilities and attitude of every single worker based on site.

• We will allocate a dedicated Account Manager to take responsibility for the smooth running of any temporary labour on your site.

• If numbers dictate we will provide a permanent on-site coordinator to manage all day to day issues, collate timesheets and organize inductions.
  
  All these tasks can be removed from your day-to-day routine leaving you free to concentrate on that most important person - your customer.

…and that's not all!

• We operate a full 24 Hour Service - no mobile phones or answering machines but a fully staffed dedicated office armed with inducted standbys for your site. Problems on 6-2 or night shift? Relax! we will cover it!

• Finally all our workers are covered by our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee - if you are not happy you don't pay. Simple as that.

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Kinetic also actively recruit for Careers In Food and we are a specialist Food and Drink Recruitment agency.

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