You’ll take the lead for the day-to-day management of our kitchen teams across Longleat and associated outlets. This is a hands‑on role focused on delivering exceptional food quality and ensuring full compliance with corporate food safety standards. This is no ordinary kitchen management role, set within the beautiful surroundings of the Longleat Estate and no split shifts or late finishes. With a range of catering outlets across site, our Assistant Kitchen Manager will support the Kitchen Manager in ensuring food is of a high standard, and meeting demand, whether it be hot meals in our flagship restaurant, pizza, or across our various 'grab and go' outlets.
About the Role
Key duties will include:
* To achieve business objectives as set by the Kitchen Manager, which include quality of food guest scores, food safety audit scores, food wastage control tolerances and food production labour costs.
* Line manage the delivery of the required volumes of food items for the food and beverage production areas to meet variable demands as cascaded by weekly park footfall forecasts and data.
* Attend meetings and training courses as may be necessary from time to time and schedule reporting team to complete training commensurate with roles.
* Support the Kitchen manager in the control and maintaining of levels of all food storage areas and ensure deliveries are packed away upon receipt and that all stock is rotated using the FIFO system of work.
Qualifications
* Proven experience in a Kitchen team within the hospitality industry in a multi-food outlet site or large-scale production site.
* CIEH approved level 3 food safety or equivalent.
* NVQ Levels 3 in Professional cookery or equivalent.
Required Skills
* Calm under pressure, ability to plan and prioritize and work to tight deadlines and within set budgets.
* Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate with people at all levels: peers, managers, and members of the public.
* Driven and positive, with an ability to find solutions and motivate both self and line reports to work independently.
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