Kitchen Manager

Away Resorts; Humberston; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Pension

Bonus Scheme

Life Insurance

Discounts on Away Resorts Holidays for

On Park Discounts

Awards and recognition

Job summary

Away Resorts in Humberston is seeking a Kitchen Manager to lead the kitchen team, drive quality, and manage stock, yields and audits while delivering memorable guest experiences. You will set standards, train staff, control costs, ensure compliance with health and safety rules, and work evenings and weekends during peak holiday times.

NVQ and food hygiene certificates are preferred; benefits include a competitive pension, bonus scheme and on-park discounts.

Qualifications

• NVQ and relevant food hygiene certificates.
• Experience leading kitchen teams with focus on quality and cost control.
• Knowledge of health & safety, auditing and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Control and direct the food preparation process and any other relative activities
• Ensure consistency of quality of dishes before they reach the customer
• Plan orders of equipment and ingredients managing, stock and wastage effectively
• Remedy any problems or defects
• Be fully in charge of managing and training kitchen staff
• Oversee the work of the kitchen team
• Manage and review team workload to maximise efficiency and ensure standards
• Implementation of all legislative measures and administration required by the current Food Hygiene, licensing

Skills

Leadership

Stock control

Food safety

Communication

Commercial awareness

Education

NVQ

Food hygiene certificates

Job description

Someone who understands that exceptional food and drink are central to a happy holiday. From leading your team's development to stocks, yields and audits but most of all doing what you love to do...cooking! This is an exceptional opportunity for a skilled Kitchen Manager who is looking to show off their creative skills. Who are we? We're a dynamic and growing company, shaking up the Great British holiday at our award-winning UK resorts. Want to find out more about our holidays? Check out our website: .

• Control and direct the food preparation process and any other relative activities
• Ensure consistency of quality of dishes before they reach the customer
• Plan orders of equipment and ingredients managing, stock and wastage effectively
• Remedy any problems or defects
• Be fully in charge of managing and training kitchen staff
• Oversee the work of the kitchen team
• Manage and review team workload to maximise efficiency and ensure standards
• Implementation of all legislative measures and administration required by the current Food Hygiene, licensing, and collaboration and respect across the team.

You will lead from the front, setting the standards for your team and motivating, coaching and supporting them to be outstanding. One more thing…holidays happen at holiday times and eating and drinking goes on in into the night, so you'll need to work your magic on bank holidays, evenings and weekends too.

Are you dynamic, determined and enthusiastic? Do you thrive on providing memorable guest experiences and want to be part of a great team? These are the essential qualities for our kitchen manager.

• Communication skills through listening to customers, engaging and building a rapport with your team.
• Experience of working under pressure including managing a workload at busy times.
• An ability to build a commercial awareness and the experience of working in a commercial environment as well as becoming the best you can in your area of expertise.
• Knowledge of working with regulations such as health & safety, auditing, and making sure that colleagues understand them.
• Great leadership skills and the ability to build a high performing team in order to control, develop and improve all aspects of the kitchen including: P&L, yields, people, standards, legal compliance, service and brand integrity.
• An NVQ and relevant food hygiene certificates.

It's about your values too. We have a can-do, fun loving, people centred ethos here at Away Resorts, which is captured by our holiday heroes' mantra of Attentive Amazing Lovers - if that's fired up your curiosity, have a read about it and decide if it describes you.

What we can offer you

• Competitive Pension
• Bonus Scheme
• Life Insurance
• Discounts on Away Resorts Holidays for you and your Family & Friends
• On Park Discounts
• Awards and recognition

Our Promise to You Holiday Heroes come with all sorts of different super-powers, and we welcome them all! We embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities. From our investors, to our teams we love that everyone comes from different backgrounds, allowing us to grow and inspire each other. We'll never accept any form of discrimination and we'll forever strive not just for our product to be unique but our people too. Afterall, wouldn't it be boring if we were all the same? In short, we want to bring your whole self to work!