Mobile Kitchen Manager - Exeter
* Location: Exeter and surrounding areas (Mid & East Devon).
* Salary: £27,955.20 pro rata (£13.44 per hour)
* Hours per week: 27.5
* Shift Patterns: Available between the hours of 07:30 and 15:00, Monday to Friday, term time only
South West Norse is established in delivering catering, cleaning, and facilities management services to a portfolio of clients in the local region in partnership with Devon County Council, combining local knowledge with service delivery expertise.
As we recognise the importance of building a strong kitchen team to be a key ingredient to our catering success, we currently have an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic Mobile Kitchen Manager lead our teams across Exeter and surrounding areas on a permanent, part-time basis.
Our commercial catering teams utilise local and fresh produce to supply a growing number of schools and businesses a diverse and healthy menu, and we are currently. Our Mobile Kitchen Manager is a key role in providing cover and support to our on-site teams, both in times of absence and when additional service is required. The role will offer you diversity to lead and manage a number of kitchens across the area, producing a variety of meals in line with the defined menus at each site. Your input into new ideas for menus will be valuable, and you will have the chance to be creative and bring new recipes.
Our kitchen support teams will benefit from your experience and guidance, as you will lead food preparation, cooking and service delivery.
Our Successful Candidate:
We are looking for you to display experience leading a busy kitchen environment, capable of organising catering staff as well as being hands-on with meal preparation and cooking. Alongside this, we want you to demonstrate a passion for cooking, demonstrated through proven experience working in a commercial kitchen environment and professional kitchen / cooking qualifications.
Your ability to work effectively as part of a team will be crucial to the role, alongside being able to build relationships with on-site teams and clients quickly. This will be highlighted by excellent communication and engagement skills
As this is a mobile position, you will need to hold a Full UK Driving Licence with access to a vehicle to travel to our sites.
Our Offer:
All salaries for part-time positions are worked out pro-rata of the full-time equivalent salary shown in the advert, calculated on your contracted hours per week.
All of our employees benefit from our company pension scheme and annual leave allowance, and this will be combined with a number of local benefits. You will have the chance to work in a friendly, customer service focused environment and alongside our company benefits package, you will have the platform to develop within the industry with a national company.
An enhanced DBS check will be required for our successful candidate, payment will be met by the employer.
We are committed to employment practices and behaviours which encourage diversity, promote equality of treatment and eliminate unlawful and or unfair discrimination.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications. If you have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful and will not be progressed to the next stage.