Kitchen Manager - Daytime Hours Only

HR-CL Ltd; Brampton; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A local garden centre restaurant in Brampton is looking for a Kitchen Manager to oversee daily operations and lead a team. This role offers the benefit of only daytime hours, with a salary between £28,000 and £30,000. Responsibilities include managing food quality and team performance while ensuring health and hygiene standards are met. Ideal candidates will have previous experience in similar roles and a passion for customer service.

Benefits

Company pension

30% staff discount

Discounted meals

Uniform provided

Free onsite parking

Confidential employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar role (Sous Chef, Kitchen Manager, or Head Chef).
• Ability to manage kitchen staff and operations efficiently.
• Strong understanding of health and safety requirements.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily kitchen operations and manage a team.
• Ensure delivery of high standards in food hygiene and cleanliness.
• Lead and develop kitchen team to meet brand specifications.

Skills

Food hygiene knowledge

Commercial acumen

Customer service focus

Team leadership

Education

Food hygiene qualification

Job description

Overview

A daytime hours Kitchen Manager job in Brampton/ Huntingdon, paying £28,000 (40 hours per week), has become available for a Garden Centre Restaurant.

The restaurant is open from 9:00am (10am on Sundays), and the kitchen team starts around 7:30/8am to prepare for the day, including home baked goods – a speciality customers enjoy every day!

If you love the buzz of working in a busy restaurant, but only want to work daytime hours, this could be perfect for you!

Highlights

• Salary of £28,000 - £30,000.
• 40 hours per week, 5 days out of 7 inc. weekends and bank holidays on rota basis.
• Usually only required to work alternative weekends for an even better work life balance!
• Company pension, 30% staff discount, discounted meals, uniform provided.
• Free onsite parking.
• Free and confidential employee assistance programme.

Job Overview

You love food. And you’re great at creating fresh food for customers to enjoy in a busy restaurant. What you probably don’t enjoy is the working hours. As a Kitchen Manager/Head Chef working for this company, you’ll balance your passion for food with the rest of your life. Here, you only work daytime hours.

You will be responsible for running the day-to-day kitchen operations and managing a team of chefs and kitchen assistants. Reporting to the Restaurant Manager, your key focus, is to assist to drive the business forward. Your role will be to lead and develop your team, ensuring the consistent delivery of exceptional standards within the kitchen, including cleanliness, food hygiene, health and safety and of course, working alongside your team to create great food on a daily basis to exacting brand specifications.

You will be passionate about excellent customer service, have commercial acumen, experience of ordering and managing stock levels and controlling wastage. Your knowledge of health and safety requirements within a commercial kitchen will be backed up by your food hygiene qualification.

Ideal Experience

• If you have experience at Sous Chef, Kitchen Manager or Head Chef level, we would love to speak to you further!

If you are interested in this Daytime Hours Kitchen Manager job in Brampton, then please apply now!