Assistant Kitchen Manager

Reporting to the Kitchen manager, this role is to deputise in that absence and operationally line manage the Longleat Park food and beverage kitchen teams to deliver both full corporate food safety compliance and to deliver food production excellence consistently across the Longleat and associated food outlets

This is a hands-on role with a focus on direct team management.

Key responsibilities

To achieve business objectives as set by the Kitchen Manager, which include quality of food guest scores, food safety audit scores, food wastage control tolerances and food production labour costs

• Attend daily briefings as a departmental ambassador and contribute key information to all departments
• Support the Kitchen manager in the recruitment of staff for the food production team in line with requirements
• Train, coach and develop the kitchen team tiers to support succession planning at all levels
• Deliver the highest standard of preparation and service of all food and beverage items
• Line manages the delivery of the required volumes of food items for the food and beverage production areas to meet variable demands as cascaded by weekly park footfall forecasts and data provided by the Food and Beverage Product and Compliance manager.
• Support the Kitchen manager in the control and maintaining of levels of all food storage areas and ensure deliveries are packed away upon receipt and that all stock is rotated using the FIFO system of work
• Provide regular stock checks in line with standard operating procedures
• Manage kitchen safety and promote a culture of safety first within the food and beverage teams.