Assistant Kitchen Manager

Location : Tattershall lakes Country Park, Lincolnshire LN4 4LR

Job Type: Full Time - Permanent Contract - Weekends Required 

Salary: £28,500 per annum 

What we need in a nutshell

We’re looking for a passionate and motivated Assistant Kitchen Manager to join the management team in our external food and beverage operation at Tattershall Lakes Country Park, one of Lincolnshire’s top holiday destinations.

About the role

We’re looking for an Assistant Kitchen Manager who can deliver delight to our holiday resort guests. You will be working in a 60ft Container unit serving up street food from Filthy Fries, Dirty Dogs to delicious, sweet treats. Being available to work evenings and weekends including bank holidays are also essential.

Outdoor Catering is the flavour and fun behind unforgettable holidays—fast-paced, ever-changing, and full of energy. We have our brand new 60ft shipping container hub bringing together our top outlets in one epic destination! Serving up Filthy Fries, Dirty Dogs, and more along with Sweet Treats.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with strong hospitality and kitchen management experience who thrives in a busy, customer-focused environment and enjoys leading by example on the floor.

What you’ll be doing

Working as part of our team of Holiday Heroes, you will be supporting the Food & Beverage Manager and making sure that our guests experience the best possible time with us.  This includes:

• Leading, training, and motivating a team to deliver delight.
• Overseeing the smooth running of the venue, the preparation for service, as well as overseeing service and supervising the after-service duties.
• Working alongside the team in a fast paced, high-volume venue with a constant eye on delivering world class service.
• Driving revenue through service and sales whilst having an eye on profitable growth, delivered with care and flair.
• Controlling margin through careful stock management and stock reconciliation through weekly stocktakes.
• Supporting and standing in for the Food and Beverage Manager
• Delivering excellent customer service and handling guest feedback professionally

Skills, experience, and qualities you’ll need

We have high standards! We’ll train you up, but you must:

• Have previous management experience in a Food & Beverage environment
• Show evidence of your superb people management skills
• Have an eye for detail, a head for business and a mindset for innovation
• Have knowledge and experience of catering and its many challenges
• Have energy, enthusiasm, and a positive attitude
• A natural leader with a hands-on attitude
• Have organisational skills and able to work under pressure

Nice to have but not essential

It would be great if you tick some of these boxes too (but we will not hold it against you if you don’t).

• Know your profit and loss from your balance sheet and be able to control costs and grow profit
• Level 2 in Food safety
• Personal licence
• Experience of working in the holiday sector

It’s about your values too. We have a can-do, fun loving, people centred ethos here at Away Resorts, which is captured by our holiday heroes’ mantra of Attentive Amazing Lovers – if that’s fired up your curiosity, have a read about it here and decide if it describes you.

What we can offer you:

This is a chance to use and stretch your skills set and build your career in one of the fastest growing and most exciting holiday companies in the UK. Additional benefits include:

• Bonus Scheme
• Enhanced Family Benefit
• Life Insurance
• Discounts on Away Resorts Holidays
• On Park Discounts
• Awards and Recognition

Our promise to you 

Holiday Heroes come with all sorts of different super-powers, and we welcome them all! After all, wouldn’t it be boring if we were all the same? We embrace diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities. We love that everyone comes from different backgrounds, allowing us to grow and inspire each other. We’ll never accept any form of discrimination, and we’ll forever strive, not just for our product to be unique, but our people too. In short, we want to bring your whole self to work!  

 Good Luck!

#INDHP