Kitchen Porter - Millfield School

Compass Group; Street; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading catering company in the United Kingdom is recruiting a Kitchen Porter. This role involves maintaining cleanliness, assisting staff, and ensuring customer safety. Ideal candidates should have experience in customer care, adaptability, and strong communication skills. This is a full-time position offering opportunities for personal development and benefits such as operational training and wellbeing support.

Benefits

Great operational training

Life assurance scheme

Personal development opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Social events

Holiday purchase scheme

High street discount vouchers

Qualifications

• Experience delivering high quality customer care.
• Ability to operate and clean heavy duty equipment.
• Knowledgeable in procurement and inventory management.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high standard of cleanliness and customer care.
• Assist in keeping public areas clean.
• Check and store incoming goods.

Skills

Customer care

Communication

Adaptability

Timekeeping

Job description

We're currently recruiting a dedicated Kitchen Porter to help ensure the smooth running of operations on a full time basis, contracted to 35 hours per week.

You will use your skills to maintain a high standard of customer care and cleanliness. In return, you will have the chance to progress your career with a company that invests in its people, celebrates individuality, and rewards and recognises employees who go beyond the plate.

Working with us has its perks!

People are at the heart of everything we do, so we've developed a range of benefits and development opportunities:

• Great operational training and development
• Life assurance scheme
• Personal Development and Training opportunities - We are passionate about our growing team
• A great wellbeing strategy - including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Regular social events and communication with our leaders
• A holiday purchase scheme
• Access to some great high street discount vouchers

Here's what you need to know before applying:

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Carry out daily Kitchen porter duty with wash up and cleaning duties
• Assisting in keeping the lobby and other public areas clean and tidy
• Helping restaurant and banqueting staff to set up rooms or move furniture
• Responding to customer requests where required
• Running errands
• Ensuring the safety of customers by, for instance, placing and removing signage that indicates wet floors
• Receive and check incoming goods
• Unpack and store goods in appropriate areas
• Maintain and update inventory records
• Review and validate invoices against goods received and services rendered, ensuring accuracy before processing
• Record due diligence of goods received
• Check for damaged goods or missing items
• Maintain and record cleanliness and all Health & Safety compliance of all goods areas
• Contact suppliers and resolve any invoice or missing items
• Stock management
• Ability to operate and clean heavy duty equipment
• Knowledgeable in procurement, delivery management and purchasing platforms

Our ideal candidate will:

• Be adaptable and easily embrace changing priorities
• Be a brilliant communicator and easily build relationships
• Have experience delivering high quality customer care
• Take initiative and make decisions that are right for our customers
• Possess the ability to work under pressure
• Demonstrate exceptional timekeeping and reliability