Chip Shop Manager

Chip Shop Kitchen Manager

Location: Tattershall Lakes Country Park, Lincolnshire

Salary: £32,000

Job type: Permanent

Job type: Seasonal 40hrs

We’re looking for an experienced kitchen manager to manage our fish and chip shop. Someone who has the drive to take a well-established concept and make it a commercial and critical success through creative thinking and practical and diligent implementation.

So, whether you are looking for the next step in your career or simply a new challenge, find out more here  http://www.awayresorts.co.uk/

What we can offer you

• Pension scheme – Plan for your future.
• Career Development – We believe in nurturing talent and promoting from within
• Up to 50% Discounts on Away Resorts holidays – because you deserve amazing getaways too.
• 20% On-park discounts – Enjoy the best of what we offer.
• Team Incentives – Your hard work won’t go unnoticed.
• Holiday Hero Menu – Enjoy delicious meals with discounted food options on-park.
• Life Insurance – For peace of mind.
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Pay – After two years with us, we’ve got you covered.
• Holiday Buy Scheme – Flexibility to suit your lifestyle.
• Help @ Hand Scheme – Wellbeing support when you need it.
• Perk Box – Exclusive discounts and benefits..

Who are we?

Nestled in the stunning Lincolnshire countryside, Tattershall Lakes is a 400-acre lakeside paradise bursting with life and adventure. From paddleboarding to jet skis, Water-skiing, fishing, aqua park, archery, high ropes, zip wire, an indoor and outdoor “lido” pool. We also have 5 different bars and restaurants including a roof top bar overlooking our stunning water-skiing lake and an over 18's cocktail bar/venue. Add that to our live entertainment offering and special event weekends including our “Rock the Lakes weekend” and a full offering of events every week in the summer holidays. Our resort is a haven for families, couples, and their four-legged friends and for those that wish can simply kick back and enjoy the tranquillity, there is literally something for everyone.

About the role

As Chip Shop Kitchen Manager, we will be looking for you share your knowledge and experience. Building an engaging team of Fryers, as well as leading by example to always deliver our menu to the highest standards. You will need to have had prior experience in supervisory role in a similar environment before.

You will work closely with the commercial manager and be responsible for ensuring the kitchen operates within its agreed budgets and that food hygiene and health and safety compliance is always maintained.

You should thrive when under pressure and have a positive attitude, oodles of enthusiasm and be prepared to be hands on and to get stuck in with the team.  Being available to work evenings and weekends including bank holidays are also essential.

What you will be doing

You will manage and inspire the kitchen team to helping to deliver delicious takeaway meals for our owners and guests this will include:

• Control and direct the food preparation process and any other relative activities.
• Ensure consistency of quality of food 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 team.
• 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.
• Managing Oil and the Fry Range
• Potato and chip management - from potato to cooked chip.

Skills, experience, and qualities you will 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.
• Working knowledge of computers and spreadsheets

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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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