Kitchen Manager

KAT Recruitment; Lisburn; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Kitchen Manager for a role in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. The position offers a work-life balance with working hours from 9-6 PM. Responsibilities include leading the kitchen team, ensuring high food standards, and maintaining compliance with health and safety regulations. Candidates should have food service and management experience, commercial awareness, and strong coaching skills. Join a team that values positivity and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Experience in food service, alongside management experience.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of budgets.
• Ability to identify training needs and effectively coach staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead the kitchen team ensuring efficient service.
• Ensure meals are presented to a high standard and on time.
• Maintain a compliant kitchen with health and safety standards.
• Sparking team passion for food service and customer experience.
• Create a productive environment while focusing on team development.

Skills

Food service experience

Management experience

Commercial awareness

Coaching and training skills

Adaptability

Positive attitude towards change

Job description

If you are looking for a better working hours, this Kitchen Manager role will be the ideal role for you. Working days only with trading hours operating between 9-6pm, my clients retail working environment is perfect for somebody who wants a better work / life balance

My clients Kitchen Managers play an essential role in delivering an exceptional customer experience across our restaurants - delivering tasty food, ensuring food hygiene, maintaining high operational standards and smashing commercial targets.

Responsibilities

• Leading the kitchen team, ensuring strong levels of service that are efficient, within budget and compliant
• Ensuring that our customers are presented with their meals to a high standard and on time
• Maintaining a fully compliant kitchen with all statutory requirements of health & safety and food hygiene
• Sparking your team's passion for delivering the best food service and customer experience
• Creating a fun and productive environment for everyone to enjoy the day-to-day operations whilst thinking ahead to ensure all your team have a development journey.

Who we are looking for

• Experience in food service, alongside management experience
• Commercial awareness and understanding of budgets, profitability from driving sales and improved ways of working
• Adaptability to identify training needs. You'll be effectively coaching and training all levels ensuring our teams are delivering an excellent customer experience and safe store environment
• You'll act quickly and enthusiastically to changing priorities, workload and new regulations or requirements
• Positivity managing change. You'll lead the team through each season with care and motivation to deliver the best
• Can demonstrate our values at all times - we're on team, getting better everyday. We bring a smile. We live and breathe gardens. We make it work for our customers