Kitchen Manager

ISS; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading facility management company is looking for a dedicated Kitchen Manager to run a new school kitchen in Ossett, Yorkshire. The role includes managing operations for 180 daily meals while ensuring high-quality food and client satisfaction. Candidates should have strong leadership skills, a passion for food, and prior kitchen management experience. This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive hourly rate of £14.47.

Qualifications

• Experience managing kitchen operations and staff.
• Ability to independently travel across the contract.
• Advanced understanding of school catering.

Responsibilities

• Manage kitchen operations and ensure high food standards.
• Engage with clients for feedback and service improvements.
• Ensure compliance with safety and hygiene standards.

Skills

Leadership

Food preparation skills

Customer service

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Education

Experience as Kitchen Manager

Basic food safety certification

Job description

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Working Pattern: Monday to Friday
6 hours a day

Contract Type: Permanent

Hourly Rate: £14.47

We’re looking for a dedicated Kitchen Manager to lead our brand-new school kitchen, delivering approximately 180 meals daily, including 60 transported meals. Your focus will be on providing high-quality, nutritious food while managing kitchen operations, staff, and budgets.

As Kitchen Manager, you’ll support the Operations team in setting high standards, training site teams, and ensuring smooth, customer-focused service. Strong leadership and a passion for food are essential in building positive relationships with students, staff, and clients.

ISS is a leading workplace experience and facility management company offering a wide range of tailor-made services for customers throughout the public and private sectors, enabling you to grow your talents as a representative of a people focused, market leading brand.

The Role

• Develop and maintain high food standards, ensuring compliance with menus and dietary needs.
• Manage portion control, waste reduction, and customer satisfaction.
• Engage with clients for feedback and service improvements.
• Ensure all safety protocols, risk assessments, and hygiene standards are followed.
• Regularly talk with clients and customers about the standard of our service.
• Have a hands-on approach with schools, clients and customers to deliver a more customer focused offer at unit level.

About You

• Experience as Kitchen Manager or the potential to develop from a catering assistant with additional training and development.
• Ability to independently travel across the contract.
• Advanced understanding of school catering and excellent food preparation and cooking skills.
• Demonstrate acceptable level of understanding of Health and Safety and accident prevention.
• Ability to demonstrate understanding profit and loss.
• Excellent interpersonal, administrative and organisational skills.

SS FS Education serves around 90,000 meals every day. Our markets include primary, secondary and SEN schools, as well as colleges and universities. We are Food for Life Catering Mark holders and currently serve accredited menus to around 400 sites across the UK.

The Company

ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.

Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.

We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference.

ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.

ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste) religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background

Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.

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Kitchen Manager

Contract: Education

Location: Ossett, Yorkshire WF5 8BA

Hours of work: 30

Working Pattern: Monday to Friday
6 hours a day

Contract Type: Permanent

Hourly Rate: £14.47

We’re looking for a dedicated Kitchen Manager to lead our brand-new school kitchen, delivering approximately 180 meals daily, including 60 transported meals. Your focus will be on providing high-quality, nutritious food while managing kitchen operations, staff, and budgets.

As Kitchen Manager, you’ll support the Operations team in setting high standards, training site teams, and ensuring smooth, customer-focused service. Strong leadership and a passion for food are essential in building positive relationships with students, staff, and clients.

ISS is a leading workplace experience and facility management company offering a wide range of tailor-made services for customers throughout the public and private sectors, enabling you to grow your talents as a representative of a people focused, market leading brand.

The Role

Develop and maintain high food standards, ensuring compliance with menus and dietary needs.

Manage portion control, waste reduction, and customer satisfaction.

Engage with clients for feedback and service improvements.

Ensure all safety protocols, risk assessments, and hygiene standards are followed.

Regularly talk with clients and customers about the standard of our service.

Have a hands-on approach with schools, clients and customers to deliver a more customer focused offer at unit level.

About You

Experience as Kitchen Manager or the potential to develop from a catering assistant with additional training and development.

Ability to independently travel across the contract.

Advanced understanding of school catering and excellent food preparation and cooking skills.

Demonstrate acceptable level of understanding of Health and Safety and accident prevention.

Ability to demonstrate understanding profit and loss.

Good communication skills.

Excellent interpersonal, administrative and organisational skills.

SS FS Education serves around 90,000 meals every day. Our markets include primary, secondary and SEN schools, as well as colleges and universities. We are Food for Life Catering Mark holders and currently serve accredited menus to around 400 sites across the UK.

The Company

ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.

Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.

We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference.

ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.

ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste) religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background

Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.

To find out more about what we do click here -

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