Kitchen Manager

Location: Golden Sands Holiday Park. Rhyl

Salary: Up to £32,000 DOE

Hours: 40 hours per week; evenings and weekends required

What we need in a nutshell

We get that the key to a great holiday is great food, cooked with fresh ingredients.

We love creating exciting dining concepts across our holiday parks and finding talented chefs to take them forward. This is a head chef role that, unusually for a high volume catering operation, has a lot of scope for you to use your talents for fresh, from-scratch cooking and menu creation.

Who are we?

With a whopping 27 holiday parks and resorts around the UK, we are on a mission to inspire everyone to holiday in the UK.

We’re not your average holiday company. Our guests come to our UK resorts to experience a world away from their day-to-day. When they are with us, they play crazy games, enjoy show-stopping entertainment and live in the moment. Our job is to surprise and delight them at every turn.

What you’ll be doing

You will manage and inspire the kitchen team to produce meals to our high standards.

This will include:

• Control and direct the food preparation process and any other relative activities.
• Ensure consistency of quality of dishes before they reach the customer.
• Plan orders of equipment and ingredients, managing stock and wastage effectively.
• Remedy any problems or defects.
• Be fully in charge of managing and training kitchen staff.
• Oversee the work of the kitchen team.
• Recruit, develop, train, and maintain a successful team.
• Manage and review team workload to maximise efficiency and ensure standards.
• Implementation of all legislative measures and administration required by the current Food Hygiene, licensing, and collaboration and respect across the team.

You will lead from the front, setting the standards for your team and motivating, coaching and supporting them to be outstanding.

One more thing…holidays happen at holiday times and eating, and drinking goes on in into the night, so you’ll need to work your magic on bank holidays, evenings and weekends too.  An all-day dining venue, Opening from 9am for breakfast and dinner service finishing at 9pm

Skills, experience, and qualities you’ll need.

Are you dynamic, determined, and enthusiastic? Do you thrive on providing memorable guest experiences and want to be part of a great team? These are the essential qualities for our kitchen manager. You will also have

• Communication skills through listening to customers, line manager, engaging and building a rapport with your team.
• Experience of working under pressure including managing a workload at busy times.
• An ability to build a commercial awareness and the experience of working in a commercial environment as well as becoming the best you can in your area of expertise.
• Knowledge of working with regulations such as health & safety, auditing, and making sure that colleagues understand them.
• Great leadership skills and the ability to build a high performing team in order to control, develop and improve all aspects of the kitchen including: P&L, yields, people, standards, legal compliance, service and brand integrity.
• An NVQ and relevant food hygiene certificates.

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.

Want to join our team? Here’s how to apply

Just click on the Apply Now button and follow the instructions. To find out more about what it’s like to work for Away Resorts check us out at www.awayresorts.co.uk/careers.

Our Promise to You

Holiday Heroes come with all sorts of different super-powers, and we welcome them all!

We embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities. From our investors, to our teams 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. Afterall, wouldn’t it be boring if we were all the same? In short, we want to bring your whole self to work!

Good Luck!

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