Kitchen Assistant

WatchHouse - Kitchen.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

WatchHouse - Kitchen. is seeking a Production Kitchen Assistant to join our production kitchens across the business.

You will be hands-on, ensuring quality, consistency and timely delivery of savoury breakfast and lunch items to our Houses. You will help maintain product quality, support storage and dispatch, and uphold food safety standards while working closely with the Kitchen Supervisor and Kitchen Lead.

Qualifications

• Genuine passion for food and drive to deliver best-in-class products.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work at pace in a fast-moving kitchen environment.
• Attention to detail and consistency with recipes and presentation.
• Empathy and teamwork to support colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Preparing sandwich fillings, washing and chopping vegetables.
• Preparing various savoury items, sandwiches and wraps according to daily orders.
• Follow correct recipe and specification including weights and presentation.
• Uphold standards across the team to ensure product quality and consistency.
• Address any product quality issues and escalate as required.
• Complete trail tasks to ensure food safety compliance.
• Ensure correct storage and labelling of ingredients.
• Assist in the correct storage of deliveries.
• Pack and store finished products for dispatch.
• Maintain a clean and orderly workspace throughout the shift.
• Follow hygiene SOPs and comply with food hygiene and safety legislation.
• Clean floors, sanitise stations, and manage waste while upholding safety standards.

Skills

Attention to detail

Verbal communication

Written communication

Pace & efficiency

Empathy

Education

Level2 Food Hygiene

HACCP knowledge

Job description

ProductionKitchen Assistant (CPU)

In short:

The Kitchen Assistant role is a hands-on position suited to someone with a genuine passion for quality, consistency, and great food. Based across our production kitchens, you will play an important part inproducingbest-in-class savoury breakfast and lunch items to be delivered to our Houses, ensuring eachitemis prepared with care and attention to detail.

You willalso helpmaintainhigh product quality, support storage and dispatch processes, uphold cleanliness and food safety standards, and work collaboratively with the team to ensure smooth day-to-day operations.

Directly reports toour Kitchen Supervisor and Kitchen Lead.

Key Responsibilities:

• Preparing sandwich fillings,washingand chopping vegetables.

• Preparing various savoury items, sandwiches and wraps according to daily orders.

• Follow correct recipe and specification including weights and presentation

• Uphold standards across the team to make sure product quality ismaintainedand that allitems are being produced to the correct recipe and product specification, ensuringconsistency across all product lines.

• Address any product quality issues (quality, weights, finish) within the shifts and escalat e asrequired.

• When required, completing Trail tasks to ensure food safety compliance.

• Ensuring correct storage and labelling of all ingredients.

• Assistingin the correct storage of deliveries.

• Packing and storage of finished products for dispatch.

• Maintain a clean and orderly workspace throughout the shift.

• Following hygiene SOPS andcomply withrelevant food hygiene and health and safety legislation.

• Cleaning floors, sanitising stations, taking out the refuse andmaintainingsafety standardsat all times.

Key to this role:

• Genuinepassionforfood and drive to deliver best-in class products to our Houses.

• Available 40hours per week, any 5 days out of 7.

• Level2 Food Hygiene, knowledge ofHACCP and ability to implement and manage food safetypractices to remain compliant.

• The ability to build andmaintainrelationshipswhilst showing empathyto your colleagues.

• Attention to detail,be diligent inensuringall product lines are consistent and to productspecification.

• Ability to accuratelyfollowrecipespecifications.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to workat pace within a fast-paced environment.

Working atWatchHouse.

WatchHousewas born from a passion to do better - with diligence, detail, and a relentless pursuit of excellence at our core. We are a people-first business that celebrates individuality and places respect, inclusion, and equality at the heart of everything we do. We believe in hiring the right person for the role, valuingpersonalityand potential as much as skills and experience. As a team, we lead with empathy, communicate openly, collaborate effectively, and support one another to succeed. We hold ourselves tohigh standards, sharing in each other’s successes while staying mindful, kind, and committed to progress.

It is an exciting time to joinWatchHouseas we continue our ambitious expansion plans and evolve our food offering across the business. With growth comes opportunity, and we are focused on building best-in-class experiences, products, and teams for the future.

Our four core values - passion, drive, diligence, and empathy - guide every decision we make and shape the culturewe’reproud to build together.