Culinary Manager

Aramark Ltd; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 14,000 - 20,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free meals on duty

Free parking on-site

Free uniform provided

Employee Benefits app with discounts

Life assurance

Pension contributions

Generous holiday entitlement

2 weeks leave in summer and Christmas

Apprenticeship schemes

Job summary

Aramark UK is seeking a hands-on kitchen supervisor to lead culinary teams, ensure consistent quality, and manage production to meet budgets across base menus. You will develop staff capabilities and uphold high standards of food safety and customer service in a dynamic contract catering environment.

This role offers full-time hours (37.5 per week) with weekend work, generous benefits, and opportunities for career progression within a world-leading organisation.

Qualifications

• NVQ Levels 1 & 2 in culinary skills.
• Clean Enhanced DBS.
• Experience in a similar educational environment.
• Can do attitude with a willingness to learn.
• Proactive in attitude.
• Lived in UK for the past 3 years and have legal right to work in the UK and be able to pass full security vetting and DBS checks.

Responsibilities

• Training and leading culinary and kitchen employees to use standard methodology food production technique and ensure quality in final presentation of food.
• Identifying the training needs of staff and carrying out relevant training in new procedures, methods of working or use of new equipment and cleaning products.
• Implementing any new company policy decisions and training staff accordingly.
• Maintaining all staff records including training records, shift opening/closing checklists and performance data.
• Develops and maintains effective client and customer rapport for mutually beneficial business relationship.
• Empowers team to deliver excellence in customer service.
• Understands end to end supply chain and procurement process and systems, ensures only authorised suppliers are used.

Skills

Culinary skills

Education

NVQ Level 1 & 2 (Culinary)

Job description

You will be responsible for the kitchen operation, cost efficiency and production of innovative quality food/menus in line with agreed budgets to improve sales. Aramark UK are making a work life balance achievable whilst still working in hospitality, cultivating your culinary career with a world leading organisation. Aramark provides world-class contract catering services to our extensive list of clients across the UK, including Defence and Judicial, private industry and Education. We are lucky to have some of the best Culinary and Catering talent that the UK has to offer working within our teams.

Responsibilities

• Training and leading culinary and kitchen employees to use standard methodology food production technique and ensure quality in final presentation of food.
• Identifying the training needs of staff and carrying out relevant training in new procedures, methods of working or use of new equipment and cleaning products.
• Implementing any new company policy decisions
• and training staff accordingly.
• Maintaining all staff records including training records, shift opening/closing checklists and performance data.
• Computer literate.
• Multi-tasking as well as ability to simplify the agenda for the team is essential.
• Capability to develop innovative solutions in the most financially efficient way possible.
• Develops and maintains effective client and customer rapport for mutually beneficial business relationship.
• Aggregates and communicates regional culinary and ingredient trends.
• Empowers team to deliver excellence in customer service.
• Investigates concerns and respond to needs relating to the catering service and takes corrective action.
• Full compliance with Operational Excellence fundamentals: managing waste, standard menus, recipes and ingredients through handling customer driven menus and labour standards.
• Understands end to end supply chain and procurement process and systems, ensures only authorised suppliers are used.

Qualifications

• NVQ Levels 1 & 2 in culinary skills.
• Clean Enhanced DBS.
• Experience in a similar educational environment.
• Can do attitude with a willingness to learn.
• Proactive in attitude.
• Lived in UK for the past 3 years and have legal right to work in the UK and be able to pass full security vetting and DBS checks.

Work Hours & Salary

This is a full-time position, 37.5 hours per week, shift pattern 5 days out of 7, including weekend work. Hourly rate £12.21.

Benefits

• Free meals on duty
• Free parking on-site
• Free uniform provided
• You will have access to our Employee Benefits app - which includes 100's of discounts
• including savings on your weekly supermarket shop and weekend treats
• life assurance
• pension contributions
• generous holiday entitlement with the option to buy more
• many more benefits
• 2 weeks leave.in summer and at Christmas
• apprenticeship schemes, so that your learning journey can continue.

Free meals on duty, free parking on-site, free uniform provided. You will have access to our Employee Benefits app - which includes 100's of discounts, including savings on your weekly supermarket shop and weekend treats. We also offer a company package including life assurance, pension contributions, generous holiday entitlement with the option to buy more, and many more benefits. 2 weeks leave.in summer and at Christmas. You will also be joining a talented team, with fabulous career prospect and could lead to all sorts of opportunities - we LOVE to promote from within. We are passionate about developing our people and over training and development. We also offer apprenticeship schemes, so that your learning journey can continue.