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Kitchen Porter
Reports to: Head Chef
Location: Cairngorm Mountain
Role Overview
Purpose of job
The Kitchen Porter will help to keep our kitchen clean to the highest standards and assist the wider kitchen team as directed.
Pay Rate:
- 18 Years plus £12.00 per hour
- 17-18 Years £10.40 per hour
- Under 17 £7.35 per hour
- Plus great benefits
- Day shifts only
Roles and Responsibilities
The purpose of a kitchen porter is to support the kitchen staff by maintaining cleanliness, organisation, and hygiene in the kitchen. They perform essential tasks like washing dishes, cleaning equipment, and ensuring that workstations are kept tidy, allowing chefs and cooks to focus on preparing food efficiently.
- To take responsibility for the cleaning of all cutleries, crockery and other kitchen equipment ensuring that all is cleaned to the highest standard.
- To maintain cleanliness and tidiness of kitchen and surrounding areas
- Maintaining general cleaning standards, follow cleaning schedules and emptying bins
- To be aware of all Kitchen Risk Assessments and Standard Operating Procedures
- Observe all Health & Safety requirements. Ensuring compliance with health and safety procedures, risk assessments and company policies
- To undertake any other reasonable duties as may, from time to time, be required
People Management
- Be polite and attentive to all our guests and colleagues
Person Specification
Skills
- Experience in a busy kitchen environment would be advantageous but not essential
- Experience working within a busy team and under pressure
- Team Player
Personal Attributes/Behaviours
- Pleasant, confident, and professional work manner
- The ability to identify success as well as areas for improvement
- A motivated individual who is not fazed by an ever-changing environment
- Smart appearance
- Attention to detail
- Committed
- Flexible with a ‘Can do’ approach
- Adaptable
- Team player
Company Background and Culture / Location Overview
Cairngorm Mountain, managed by Cairngorm Mountain (Scotland) Ltd is a popular snowsports destination in Scotland, located within the Cairngorms National Park, and has been offering snowsports for over 50 years. In winter, the resort is a commercial ski operation. In summer, the Resort serves as a tourist destination. The surrounding area attracts over 1.8 million annual visitors predominantly in summer with the Resort itself attracting circa 200,000 annual visitors.
Cairngorm Mountain Resort covers 1,418 hectares and can attract over 120,000 skiing and snowboarding visitors in the busy winter period. The Resort is an internationally renowned area of scientific interest. Cairngorm Mountain and surrounding areas contain unique natural habitats and wildlife protected by EU legislation.
In the summer, the Resort transforms as the snow melts and becomes a hub of activity, from guided walks to the mountain summit, to generic visitors and a family market looking for activities to undertake.