Kitchen Duty Manager

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Kitchen Duty Manager

Department: Buffets

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Bognor Regis

Reporting To: Anna Zhekova-Boyanova

Description

About the role

As a role model, lead from the front and motivate your team on shift to deliver exceptional service at all times. You will engage and build relationships with the wider team across the kitchen, enabling a fulfilling environment to work in.

You will support the kitchen leadership and team through coaching to grow with coaching and personal development plans. This role plays a large part in delivering all goals and targets for the Buffets department, being instrumental in the achievement of all internal and external audits.

Supervise and coordinate activities of Main Catering Store (ordering, deliveries) and non-cooking kitchen workers as well as maintenance of premises and equipment. Carrying out inspections of areas, including but not limited to, kitchens, workrooms, storerooms and equipment for cleanliness and order. The Duty Manager responsibilities include overseeing daily operations, ensuring employee productivity, monitoring efficiency of all processes and creating a positive work environment for employees, also meet regularly with BOH Manager to stay up-to-date with organisational changes, issues and improvements.

You will focus on the detail and able to prioritise to ensure the biggest positive impact is achieved in terms of cleanliness and operational tasks whilst adhering to all Food Safety and Health & Safety policies and procedures. You will support the chefs in having all equipment ready for service and take pride in the organisation of the dishwash and pot wash areas.

Typical working hours: working 40 hours per week, 5 days over 7, this is a permanent role paid monthly covering a mixture of shifts 7am - 3pm or 1pm - 9pm.

About You

We're looking for a leader with good communication skills and someone who demonstrates our brand values and enjoys getting stuck in with our team. You'll have an ability to perform well in a busy environment, creating smiles for our team in the supportive environment for the catering stores and kitchen porter areas of Main Kitchens within the Buffets department's main building. A great eye for detail is needed and the ability to maintain consistent standards of cleanliness whilst operating efficiently in everything you do. You'll be passionate, confident and show that we care for each other.

You should be able to demonstrate the following:

Delighting guests: From a supportive function, allowing the guest to have great meals times, from the cleanliness and volume operation of a busy kitchen environment the guests will have a memorable meal time

Developing people: You are an inspirational leader with a genuine passion for building a strong team by focusing on quality training and effective communication

Driving standards: You have an eye for detail and the ability to deliver consistent cleaning standards.

Delivering results: You have the ability to achieve goals set for you and your team using problem solving skills, in line with budgetary controls.