Kitchen Manager - Notcutts Woodbridge Garden Centre

Notcutts; Woodbridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A national garden centre group is seeking a Kitchen Manager for their Woodbridge restaurant. The role includes leading a kitchen team, ensuring high-quality food during daytime hours, and managing stock levels. Ideal candidates will possess a level 3 food hygiene qualification and experience in the kitchen environment. This position offers competitive salary, career growth, and a commitment to team support and development.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Chef Whites uniform

Free onsite parking

Career growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a commercial kitchen managing stock and waste.
• Hands-on experience preparing dishes to brand specifications.

Responsibilities

• Lead and motivate kitchen team in a busy restaurant.
• Ensure excellent customer service and food quality.
• Manage daily dish preparation alongside the team.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Managing stock levels

Controlling wastage

Food hygiene (level 3)

Job description

Overview

Kitchen Manager - Notcutts Woodbridge Garden Centre

Full Time - 40 hours per week (to include weekends and Bank Holidays on a rota basis)

Day time hours, No evenings, nights or split shifts

You love food. And you’re great at creating fresh food for customers to enjoy. What you probably don’t enjoy is working late at night or split shifts.

As a Notcutts Kitchen Manager you’ll balance your passion for food with the rest of your life. With us, you only work daytime hours.

About the Restaurant

Our restaurants are at the heart of our garden centres and an important reason for customers to visit us. Your attention to detail and organisation will mean excellent customer service is as important to you as the ingredients on your menu. You will equally be passionate about motivating, leading and training your team to ensure you develop great chefs to deliver great food and great profits.

Role Details

We’re looking for a Kitchen Manager to lead our busy kitchen team in our Garden Centre Restaurant in Woodbridge, Suffolk. Our restaurant is open from 9:00am to 5:00pm, serving breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea. No more evening service and late nights!

Requirements

We would like you to have commercial acumen, experience of managing stock levels and controlling wastage and knowledge of health and safety requirements within a commercial kitchen with your food hygiene qualification at level 3.

You will also have experience and be comfortable with being hands on working alongside your team to prepare dishes on a daily basis to brand specifications.

In return

In return, our Kitchen Manager will receive :

• A great competitive salary
• Chef Whites uniform
• Free onsite parking
• Potential career growth opportunities and huge support from our central F & B team

Other

As a national Garden Centre group, we know how important nature is for wellbeing, but we also provide a free and confidential employee assistance programme for anyone who needs additional support. And here’s something important to know. There’s no such thing as a perfect job candidate, so don’t hold back on applying, we’d love to hear from you.

Notcutts is a place where everyone (and everything!) can grow. We’re committed to equality of opportunity and we welcome applications from every part of our community and beyond.

Please forward your CV now, to apply. We regret we can currently only contact candidates who we would like to invite for interview. If you don’t hear from us regarding your application, we are sorry that you haven’t been successful this time.