Chef - Monday to Friday

Thomas Franks Ltd; Turriff; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wider wallet scheme

Free meals on duty

Cycle to work scheme

Workplace pension

Career progression

Job summary

Thomas Franks Ltd is hiring a talented Chef to join our team at one of our locations in Greens, Aberdeenshire. The role is full-time, permanent, 40 hours per week, with a starting salary of £32,000 per annum.

The site operates Monday to Friday and serves breakfast, lunch and snacks with fresh seasonal ingredients. You will work in a fast-paced environment, prepare food from scratch, follow brand standards and maintain hygiene.

Qualifications

• Experience in breakfast and lunch service is desirable.
• Ability to follow brand standards and HACCP/food hygiene practices.
• Strong customer service orientation and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Prepare food using fresh ingredients and cook from scratch.
• Work with breakfast and lunch service teams to meet demand.
• Ensure food hygiene and allergy procedures are followed.

Skills

Cooking

Food preparation

Customer service

Team player

Attention to detail

Job description

Contract: Full Time , Permanent
Salary: £ 32,000 per annum
Hours: 40 per week

A major energy infrastructure development in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, designed to connect new renewable power generation to the GB transmission network. Catering for up to 250 people daily. We offer a core feeding of Breakfast, Lunch and snacks. There will be some hospitality offering at this location. This location operates Monday to Friday.

A brand-new greenfield site, the contract will initially be delivered from a mobile catering unit before moving into a fantastic newly built facility. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy working independently, and want to be part of a service from the very start, this is a fantastic opportunity to grow with us!

We are looking for a talented Chef to join our team at one of our locations in Greens,Aberdeenshire

If you are a current qaulified chef please apply today.

You will be excited to work with fresh seasonal ingredients & regularly changing bespoke menus. You will be creative and have the opportunity to showcase your skillset.

Key responsibilities:

• To work well in a team, Working alonside assisting the Chef team .. providing Breakfast & Lunch
• To produce food for service using fresh ingredients, cooking from scratch and following the companies brand standards
• Ensuring company food standards are adhered to and wastage controlled.
• Ensuring all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety policies and allergen control procedures are followed.
• Excellent customer service skills

You will have the following skills:

• A genuine interest in food & excellent customer service
• An all-round team player
• Innovation and passion for great food
• An organised person with attention to detail

Knowledge / competencies:

• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good understanding and use of verbal English.
• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good standard of written English and reading skills.
• Similar experience of customer and / or food preparation environment is preferred

• Wider wallet scheme (discounts at major retailers, restaurants, gyms etc).
• Free meals on duty
• Volunteers leave – up to one day per year.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Recommend a friend bonus.
• Unrivalled individual training and development.
• Well established apprenticeship programme.
• Team & company social events.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Workplace pension.
• Excellent career progression within a leading independent contract caterer.

About us

Thomas Franks is a founder led, fresh food catering business with a focus on excellence and service delivered with individuality, passion and style. We are unique in every approach and our clients, and our people are paramount to our daily success.

Disclaimer Scotland Schools

All applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have the Right to Work in the UK to be considered for this role.

An enhanced PVG, Identity & reference checks (covering the last five years) will form part of the selection process. As an organisation using the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Disclosure service to assess applicants' suitability for positions of trust, Thomas Franks Ltd complies fully with the PVG Code of Practice and undertakes to treat all applicants for positions fairly. We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure based on conviction or other information revealed. However, for any post in a school please be aware that any application is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such any criminal conviction, caution or bind-over must be declared.

Diversity and Inclusion at Thomas Franks

We actively encourage applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds and continue to develop a culture of growth and inclusion and would like to invite applications from groups who are currently under-represented, because we believe greater diversity leads to exceptional results and provides a better working life.