Cafe Assistant

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare; Howick; On-site; NZD 40,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited is seeking a first-class hospitality professional to join our cafeteria team at East Tamaki. This role focuses on serving meals, basic food preparation, and friendly customer service for over 4500 employees across six cafes, with weekday day-hour shifts.

Based in Auckland's East Tamaki site, the role offers opportunities to develop skills and progress your career within a leading medical devices company, working in a busy but supportive hospitality environment.

Qualifications

• Outstanding communication and customer service skills.
• Proven time management skills.
• Self-motivated, reliable, and café/restaurant experience preferred.
• Applicants may undergo background checks including criminal and credit checks.
• NZ work visa or permanent residency required.

Responsibilities

• Serve meals and support chefs in food preparation.
• Present meals and maintain food presentation standards.
• Provide courteous customer service and handle cleaning duties.
• Support cafeteria operations across the East Tamaki site.

Skills

Communication

Customer service

Time management

Reliability

Hospitality/café experience

Job description

Contract

East Tamaki, North Island

About the Company

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited is a thriving, cutting-edge medical device company with a wide and growing range of highly innovative healthcare products. We have manufacturing locations in NZ and Mexico, and sales offices and distributors operating in 120 countries around the world.

About the Role

Do you love hospitality but not the hours? Move to Day weekday hours in this fixed term café assistant role at one of New Zealand's leading companies. With our continued success, we have a new opportunity for a first-class hospitality superstar to join our cafeteria team. Our cafeterias are vital to the culture and lifestyle at F&P Healthcare. Alongside weekday meal services for over 4500 employees, our six cafes also provide catering and service for corporate functions, meetings, and events across the East Tamaki site.

This role is predominately kitchen based, supporting the chefs. Your duties will include serving meals, basic food preparation and presentation, as well as customer service and general cleaning duties. You will also have opportunities to develop your skills and progress your career at F&P.

Skills and Experience

We are looking for someone who can show us they have outstanding communication and customer service skills and have passion for hospitality. You will need to have proven time management skills and be self‑motivated, reliable and being experienced in a café or restaurant setting.

Applicants will be required to complete relevant background checks as part of the recruitment process for this role, this may include criminal and credit checks.

Please note: Only applicants with current working visas or permanent residents of NZ will be considered for this position.