Kitchen Porter

IHG Hotels & Resorts; Manchester; On-site; GBP 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hotel chain in Manchester is seeking a Kitchen Porter to join their team on a full-time basis. The role includes maintaining high food hygiene standards, cleaning, and supporting the kitchen staff. The position offers a competitive salary of £12.60 per hour, opportunities for career progression, and various employee perks including holiday allowances and meal provisions.

Benefits

Extensive training and career progression

28 days holiday per year

Meals while on duty

Taxi subsidy for late shifts

Wagestream financial wellbeing app

Discounts on hotel stays and restaurants

Generous Refer a Friend programme

Qualifications

• Passion for delivering great service.
• Experience as a Kitchen Porter or Prep Chef is preferable.
• Ability to work in a busy kitchen environment.

Responsibilities

• Support the kitchen team to maintain food hygiene standards.
• Ensure high standards of cleanliness and organization in the kitchen.
• Wash dishes and clean equipment.

Skills

Passionate about delivering great service

Ability to work a variety of shifts

Previous experience as a Kitchen Porter or Prep Chef

Experience in a busy kitchen environment

Willingness to learn

Job description

A fantastic opportunity for a Kitchen Porter to join us at Kimpton Clocktower on a Full-Time contract!

You will earn £12.60 per hour, which is equal to £26,208.00 salary plus service charge.

You can check out our instagram page to have a look at @kimptonclocktower!

Kimpton Clocktower is all about providing a contemporary luxury hotel experience whilst building heartfelt human connections with guests and colleagues – we call it Stay Human. What more could you ask? It’s not just the humans who feel this, we extend this to all our furry friends, because our heartfelt connection does not end with humans!

What’s in it for you as our Kitchen Porter:

• Becoming part of the IHG Hotels & Resorts family, one of the world’s leading hotel companies - which means global opportunities!
• Extensive training, opportunities for career progression across the world, plus 2 paid days volunteering per year with a cause of your choice
• Wagestream - a financial wellbeing app giving you the opportunity to save, track and withdraw your pay as you earn it.
• Taxi subsidy for shifts starting/ending between 23:00-06:00.
• Meals whilst on duty
• 28 days holiday each year, including bank holidays, this increases up to a maximum of 33 days (Pro Rated)
• We provide every colleague company sick pay and life insurance
• Amazing discounts for our hotels and restaurants around the world
• Discounts from over 15,000 stores – all the way from retail to cinema
• Don’t forget, bring your friends and take part in our generous ‘Refer a Friend’ programme!

As a Kitchen Porter, you will work across multiple kitchens and will be crucial in supporting the kitchen team to maintain food hygiene standards. You will ensure high standards of cleanliness and organization of the kitchen while supporting the chefs. That includes washing dishes, cleaning equipment, assisting with basic food preparation, removing garbage and ensuring proper disposal of waste, providing general support to the kitchen staff (such as fetching items or helping with deliveries) and assisting with inventory by keeping track of supplies and alerting kitchen managers when items need to be reordered.

To succeed as a Kitchen Porter,

• To be passionate about delivering great service
• Ability to work a variety of shifts
• To have previous experience as a Kitchen Porter, or Prep Chef is preferable
• Experience with working in a busy kitchen environment & being able to work with deadlines.
• To be willing to learn new things and work as part of a wide hotel team

At Kimpton, our shared mission is to make lives better through heartfelt human connections. This emotional investment drives all that we do, and it’s why you’ll love the work, too. Our colleagues are empowered and encouraged to act from the heart, to go above and beyond to create ridiculously personal experiences for each other and our guests!!

Our passion is YOU…come as you are!

Here, you will have space to:

• Be yourself - bringing the real you to work, with your unique personality we want you to be who you are!
• Lead yourself – we trust you to make decisions and exert your creativity in order to provide our guests with heartfelt human connections, we trust you to do right!
• Make it count – you matter, and we will provide you with all the tools you need in order to create ridiculously personalised experiences for our guests every day!

If you are someone who likes to march to the beat of their own drum and wants to join a company which encourages authentic individuality, apply today to join us as a Kitchen Porter!

You must meet the legal requirements to work in the UK.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual's, race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants crafts unique destinations that kindle heartfelt human connections. Our bespoke spaces blend spirit, style and delight to create an addictive culture of refined irreverence where locals, visitors & colleagues seamlessly connect.

Don't quite meet every single requirement, but still believe you'd be a great fit for the job? We'll never know unless you hit the 'Apply' button. Start your journey with us today.