Assistant Kitchen Manager

Location: Piperdam Golf & Leisure, Dundee, Nr Birkhill

Salary: Circa £28,000 DOE 

Hours: 40 hours per week; some weekends required

Set in 650 acres of idyllic Angus countryside, Piperdam combines superb  accommodation and award winning facilities to create the ultimate Scottish Experience.  Our facilities include our Room with a View restaurant and Howie’s bar.

What you'll be doing

You will be assisting the Kitchen Manager in their daily duties. As Assistant Kitchen Manager you must be capable of looking after the kitchen in the Head Chef’s absence ensuring that service runs smoothly.

Main duties and responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring that food areas are set up for the day’s business
• Ensuring that staff are briefed and directed accordingly
• Helping to train the staff to quality standard
• Working closely with the Head chef to ensure that the finer details for successful service are in place
• Working closely with the Head Chef to control stock, reduce wastage and manage the cost of labour/staff hours versus revenues
• Handle guest complaints, requests and enquiries in a professional manner
• Help create a safe environment for both staff and guests and adhere to the company’s health and safety policies and procedures Key Skills and Experience

Skills, experience and qualities you’ll need 

If you can demonstrate the following, we’d love to hear from you: 

• Have previous leadership experience in a kitchen environment
• have experience as a chef within a guest focused environment
• Have excellent knowledge of industry trends
• 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

We love progression and career development, this role would suite an experienced Assistant Kitchen Manager looking to develop as well as Chef De Parties who feel ready to take the next step. Accommodation can be arranged for the right candidate as well as career advancing courses.

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 - have a read about it here and decide if it describes you. 

We look forward to reviewing your application.

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