Junior Kitchen Manager | Restaurants

Butlin's; Minehead; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Butlin's Minehead is seeking a Junior Kitchen Manager to join the Kitchen team and support the running of a busy dining operation. You will report to the Kitchen Manager and help lead a team of up to 15, ensuring guests have a consistently excellent experience.

You will focus on food cost budgets, menu planning, and adhering to health and safety standards while developing training and performance plans for your team. The role emphasizes hands-on leadership and a passion for guest delight.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar level role.
• Willingness to step up to next level in the kitchen.
• Capable of managing margins and costs while maintaining standards.

Responsibilities

• Support running a busy kitchen and lead a team up to 15.
• Deliver meals that meet brand standards and guest expectations.
• Plan resources, recruit and develop the team, and monitor hygiene/safety standards.

Skills

Kitchen leadership

Food cost control

Team development

Recruitment

Job description

Description

We’re looking for a Junior Kitchen Manager to join the Butlin's Restaurants Department based in Minehead. Reporting to the Kitchen Manager, you will support the running of the kitchen and support in leading a team of up to 15. 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. We truly believe that variety is the spice of life and in this role you’ll have the opportunity to lead and develop the skills of a team.

About You

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.

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.

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!