Junior Kitchen Manager (Chef)

Butlin's Conferences & Events; Bognor Regis; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Butlin's Conferences & Events in Bognor Regis is seeking a Junior Kitchen Manager to join the Restaurant Department. You will support running the kitchen and lead a team up to 40, reporting to the Senior Kitchen Manager.

You will drive guest satisfaction through menu planning, cost control, and training, maintain food hygiene standards, and develop action plans for continuous improvement, with five days over seven and a 40-hour week; a bonus scheme applies.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar level role in hospitality.
• Ability to manage a team and deliver brand standards.
• Strong focus on guest experience.
• Experience in cost control and budgeting.

Responsibilities

• Assist in running the kitchen and lead a team up to 40.
• Resource planning, recruitment and selection.
• Deliver menus that meet standards and budgets.
• Ensure food hygiene and health and safety compliance.
• Develop action plans to improve the guest experience.
• Provide training schedules and performance development for the team.
• Work five days over seven; 40-hour week; bonus scheme.

Skills

Team leadership

Cost awareness

Menu planning

Recruitment

Education

Level 3 Food Safety qualification

Job description

About The Role

We’re looking for a Junior Kitchen Manager to join the Restaurant Department based in Bognor Regis.

Reporting to the Senior Kitchen Manager, you will support the running of the kitchen and support in leading a team of up to 40. Making our guests smile is at the heart of our values, and you will ensure this happens consistently by ensuring that guests remain the central focus of all operational decisions. This will include resource planning, recruitment and selection, ensuring that we have the very best team in place to deliver an amazing service.

You will be passionate about exceptional experience and will monitor this regularly to develop action plans in your venue with a focus on continuous improvement. Financial performance will play an important part in your role, and you will deliver food cost budgets through effective menu planning, cooking to standards and specification. You will also support in the accountability of food hygiene standards and health and safety, inline with legislation and company policies.

You will be a role model for the Butlin’s unique way of working, ensuring training schedules and performance development plans are in place for your team and inspiring them to deliver a great experience to guests every time.

Department Restaurants & QSR Employment Type Permanent - Full Time Location Bognor Regis Workplace type Onsite Reporting To Kirk Richards

Key Responsibilities

We are looking for individuals with experience in a similar level role. We would also love to hear from you if you're looking to step up to your next role in the kitchen.

You will need to be hard working and determined, a reliable person who likes to get things done and who will look for better ways for the team to consistently deliver our brand standards.

We are looking for candidates who are energetic and enthusiastic, high spirited and fun loving and who will understand their role and the value they can add to the guest experience by unleashing the potential of the team.

You should have also passed your Level 3 Food Safety qualification and be confident in leading a team to continually deliver high standards in a fast paced and busy kitchen environment.

As with any chef role at this level, you will also be responsible for managing margins and controlling costs and all things health, safety and hygiene related.

We think our chefs at Butlin’s are something special and we know our guests love to keep returning to our restaurants as part of their holiday experience so the cherry on the top for the successful candidate is for them to be fun, keen to join in and work as part of a team, and is interested in ensuring our guests have a great time, every time.

Typical working hours: working five days over seven, covering 40 hours per week and are part of a bonus scheme and is a unique opportunity to work within a kitchen environment without splits shifts, a 40-hour working week.

About Butlin's

Did you know Billy Butlin was the first person to introduce dodgems to the UK? That's right, 'fun' is in our DNA, and we've been delighting guests for almost 90 years. Ask any of our team, past and present, and one of the best things they'll say about working at Butlin's is our culture.

As The Home of Entertainment, we pull out all the stops to provide our guests with an 'Altogether More Entertaining and Fun Break', from all-action family holidays to adult-only Big Weekenders, brought to life through our three mighty values. So, if you're looking for a role where you can Create Smiles, where you aren't afraid to Get Stuck In and where the team genuinely Care For Each Other, we think you'll fit right in!