ABOUT THE ROLE: As a Supermarket Assistant Branch Cook, you'll be working in our back-of-house of one of our shops in the Partner Dining Room, providing hot and cold food for Partners to enjoy during their break times.
When not working in the kitchen, you'll support the wider shop floor team as a Supermarket Assistant, providing the distinct service and passion for food that our competitors can't compete with.
Key Responsibilities:
1. The smooth running of the overall kitchen with support and direction from the management team.
2. Maintaining a clean, tidy, and safe kitchen environment.
3. Ensuring portion control, preparation, storage methods and due diligence to avoid food wastage, helping to protect our profits.
4. Adhering to high food hygiene standards.
5. Providing great service to our customers and supporting with a variety of shop-keeping related tasks including:
1. Stock replenishment - ensuring our shelves remain as full as possible and products are in the right place at the right time for our customers.
2. Fulfilling online customer orders ready for our drivers to deliver their shopping direct to their doors.
3. Reducing wastage by following product due diligence and markdowns to those reaching their sell by dates.
4. Working with the wider shop team to support when needed including checkout support, managing Click & Collect orders, fulfilling on-demand customer orders and more.
5. Maintaining a safe and tidy working environment with general shopkeeping tasks.
Essential skills/experience you'll need:
1. Experience of working as a cook in a catering or hospitality environment.
2. Passionate about food and serving a varied and nutritious menu.
3. Customer focused with the ability to engage partners with the food on offer.
4. Demonstrate commercial awareness, driving sales within the partner dining room, whilst also controlling costs and wastage.
5. Flexible and adaptable to be able to work between kitchen and shop floor as required.
Desirable skills/experience you may have:
1. City & Guilds 706 1 and 2 or NVQ equivalent.
2. Food Hygiene Certificate Level 2.
Closing Date: March 4, 2025
Pay: £12.47 Hourly
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours of Work: Full time work (37.5hrs) across seven days to include some weekends between the hours of 08:00-16:00
Job Level: Partnership Level 10
Where You'll Be Working: Crewkerne (Waitrose & Partners), South Street, Crewkerne, Somerset, TA18 8DA
Important points to note:
It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process.
We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.
We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.
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