Overview Kitchen Steward - Full time, Permanent We're on the lookout for a Kitchen Steward to join the Food team at our award winning offices in Wolverhampton on a permanent 35-hour week Monday- Friday contract. (Will also include occasional evening work for functions) With your proactive and hard-working mindset, you'll be right at home in our state-of-the-art food development kitchen. You will have experience in cooking, along with maintaining high levels of cleanliness and food safety standards ideally in a commercial kitchen. Have you got what it takes? The kitchen is not a trading kitchen but used for menu development & sampling, training our General Managers and Chefs, and for any in-house events. This role supports a number of functions across the business and therefore has a variety of responsibilities including: Maintaining Kitchen Standards - from opening & closing the kitchen each day through to maintaining the 5 EHO standards required for a showcase kitchen Effective Stock Control - from ordering the required stock for the different departments & activities and receiving the deliveries through to completing stocktakes and managing stock in hand to reduce wastage. Kitchen Organisation - making sure the kitchen is fully prepped for any menu development days, supplier presentation days and panelling sessions, ensuring all products are available so we have a structured organised approach. Practical cooking support - your opportunity to roll your sleeves up The Kitchen Steward will be supporting in the following ways: Menu Development panelling sessions - cooking of any products, ensuring that they are cooked to correct manufacturers or Marston's specification methods. Technical and Procurement panelling sessions - assisting relevant Technical Manager in cooking and reviewing products. Product testing - Working closely Menu Development to create cooking instructions for kitchen specifications on new products. Quality Assurance Specifications - working with the New Product Development Manager and Menu Development Manager, assisting with the creation of product specifications. What you'll bring to the role: A passion for food and a love of cooking Impeccable standards where cleanliness is concerned Organised A team player What you get from us - At Marston's we're one big family. We put our people first, which is why we offer real benefits alongside the expected, these include: Apprenticeship programmes- offering training & development at any stage of your career Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave 20% off in Marston's pubs and Marston's Inns accommodation, with our employee discounts Marston's Rewards (discounts on many high street and online major retailers) Share save incentive scheme Employee assistance programme-including various wellbeing support services, a completely confidential 24/7 helpline, up to 6 counselling sessions and more online services Come as you are. Personality counts for more than anything else here. No judgement on where you've come from, or your story to date, just a need for the right attitude and an ambition that matches ours. We'll accept you and celebrate you for being you. We can't wait to see what we can make happen together. MarstonsWherePeopleMakePubs To find out more about us, check out the below - https://www.marstonscareers.co.uk/OR Marston's life page The Opportunity Not Specified Who are we looking for? Not Specified