Kitchen Assistant

Watchhouse Coffee House Holding Limited.; London Borough of Southwark; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

WatchHouse Coffee House Holding Limited is seeking a Production Kitchen Assistant to support our production kitchens across sites. You will help produce best-in-class savoury breakfast and lunch items, ensuring quality and consistency while maintaining food safety standards.

You will report to the Kitchen Supervisor and Lead, join a team that values diligence, empathy, and collaboration, and contribute to smooth daily operations in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Level 2 Food Hygiene qualification
• Knowledge of HACCP and food safety practices
• Strong attention to detail in food preparation

Responsibilities

• Prepare sandwich fillings, wash and chop vegetables
• Prepare savoury items, sandwiches and wraps according to daily orders
• Follow recipes and specifications including weights and presentation
• Maintain product quality and ensure consistency across lines
• Assist with storage, dispatch, and label ingredients
• Keep workspace clean and comply with hygiene standards

Skills

Food hygiene Level 2

Food safety

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Communication skills

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 escalaterequired.
• 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.