Production Kitchen Assistant

Watchhouse Coffee House Holding Limited.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

WatchHouse is hiring a Production Kitchen Assistant to support across production kitchens. You will help prepare savoury breakfast and lunch items, ensure quality and consistency, manage storage and dispatch, and uphold food safety standards in a fast-paced setting.

Directly reporting to the Kitchen Supervisor and Kitchen Lead, you will join a team focused on delivering best-in-class products across WatchHouse Houses, maintaining cleanliness and safety at all times.

Qualifications

• Level 2 Food Hygiene, HACCP knowledge and ability to implement food safety practices
• Genuine passion for food with drive to deliver best-in-class products
• Attention to detail and ability to work at pace in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Preparing sandwich fillings, washing and chopping vegetables
• Preparing savoury items, sandwiches and wraps according to daily orders
• Follow correct recipe specifications including weights and presentation
• Maintain product quality and consistency across lines
• Address quality issues and escalate as required
• Complete Trail tasks to ensure food safety compliance
• Ensure correct storage and labelling of ingredients
• Assist in storage of deliveries and packing of finished products
• Maintain a clean and orderly workspace throughout shifts
• Follow hygiene SOPs and comply with health and safety legislation
• Clean floors, sanitise stations and manage waste safely

Job description

ProductionKitchen Assistant (CPU)

In short:

The Kitchen Assistant role is a hands-on position suited to someone with a genuine passion for quality, consistency, and great food. Based across our production kitchens, you will play an important part inproducingbest-in-class savoury breakfast and lunch items to be delivered to our Houses, ensuring eachitemis prepared with care and attention to detail.

You willalso helpmaintainhigh product quality, support storage and dispatch processes, uphold cleanliness and food safety standards, and work collaboratively with the team to ensure smooth day-to-day operations.

Directly reports toour Kitchen Supervisor and Kitchen Lead.

Key Responsibilities:

• Preparing sandwich fillings,washingand chopping vegetables.

• Preparing various savoury items, sandwiches and wraps according to daily orders.

• Follow correct recipe and specification including weights and presentation

• Uphold standards across the team to make sure product quality ismaintainedand that allitems are being produced to the correct recipe and product specification, ensuringconsistency across all product lines.

• Address any product quality issues (quality, weights, finish) within the shifts and escalat e as required.

• When required, completing Trail tasks to ensure food safety compliance.

• Ensuring correct storage and labelling of all ingredients.

• Assistingin the correct storage of deliveries.

• Packing and storage of finished products for dispatch.

• Maintain a clean and orderly workspace throughout the shift.

• Following hygiene SOPS andcomply withrelevant food hygiene and health and safety legislation.

• Cleaning floors, sanitising stations, taking out the refuse andmaintainingsafety standardsat all times.

Key to this role:

• Genuinepassionforfood and drive to deliver best-in class products to our Houses.

• Available 40hours per week, any 5 days out of 7.

• Level2 Food Hygiene, knowledge ofHACCP and ability to implement and manage food safetypractices to remain compliant.

• The ability to build andmaintainrelationshipswhilst showing empathyto your colleagues.

• Attention to detail,be diligent inensuringall product lines are consistent and to productspecification.

• Ability to accuratelyfollowrecipespecifications.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to workat pace within a fast-paced environment.

Working atWatchHouse.

WatchHousewas born from a passion to do better - with diligence, detail, and a relentless pursuit of excellence at our core. We are a people-first business that celebrates individuality and places respect, inclusion, and equality at the heart of everything we do. We believe in hiring the right person for the role, valuingpersonalityand potential as much as skills and experience. As a team, we lead with empathy, communicate openly, collaborate effectively, and support one another to succeed. We hold ourselves tohigh standards, sharing in each other’s successes while staying mindful, kind, and committed to progress.

It is an exciting time to joinWatchHouseas we continue our ambitious expansion plans and evolve our food offering across the business. With growth comes opportunity, and we are focused on building best-in-class experiences, products, and teams for the future.

Our four core values - passion, drive, diligence, and empathy - guide every decision we make and shape the culturewe’reproud to build together.