Commis Chef

Commis Chef

Part Time 14-16 per week (weekend only)

Permanent

Salary – £12.00 per hour

Location – Café on Water, Hanningfield Reservoir

About the role

We have an amazing opportunity to become a Commis Chef at Hanningfield Waterside Park and become part of the team that delivers the “wow” experience to all our day visitors throughout the year.

You’ll be assisting the other Chef’s to deliver high quality food and beverage services, menu development and food production/preparation for guests (food preparation, cleaning, cashing up, point of sale, kitchen support, and stock taking)

We’re looking for you to assist the other chefs to deliver the food and beverage services to agreed schedules, along with the monitoring and reporting on our regular monitoring of food hygiene and other regulatory standards.

The successful candidate will be a first-class communicator. You’ll be professional, self-motivated and creative, with a high level of attention for detail.

Please note

This role has been defined as a safety or security critical role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment you’ll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test. Prospective employees and agency workers in defined safety and security critical roles will be required to undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. This will be prior to or within four weeks of their start date.

Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre-employment urine drug screen will have their sample analysed by the Company appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a pre-employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked.

About you

The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator with a passion for Hanningfield. You’ll be professional, self-motivated and creative, with a high level of attention for detail

The role requires an individual who is highly organised, hardworking, flexible and willing to work unsociable hours, including weekends, late nights and bank holidays.

As this role is working in the food and beverage side of our leisure business, we’re looking for you to have an NVQ qualification in a related discipline, like food and beverage services, hospitality, customer service. You’ll also naturally need to be able to cook and prepare meals.

You’ll also need to have a Level 2 qualification in food safety, along with excellent culinary skills and excellent food and beverage product knowledge as well as an understanding of key nutritional matters.

Here at Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity which means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome all applications, as we believe and strive to be an equal opportunity employer committed in having a diverse community represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.

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