Ever wondered how airline meals make it on board? Now’s your chance to be part of it! Join our fast-paced, seasonal team and help prepare and supply meals and equipment for flights departing daily.
Step into the kitchen as a Commis Chef! Assist in creating delicious meals for passengers across all classes and grow your culinary career with us.
Pay Rate: £14.22 per hour
What You’ll Do
- Preparing, cooking and presenting a range of quality meals to specification standards
- Assisting other chefs in the kitchen with general duties
- Working as part of a team in a customer centric environment
- Maintaining a clean and safe workstation
- Assisting with stock rotation
- Working in a manner that promotes good health and safety practices
Please note: duties may include other tasks as required.
What We’re Looking For
- Either City & Guilds 706/1 or 2 or NVQ Level 1 or 2
- Previous catering experience as a Chef
- Fully knife trained
- Ability to work on a shift basis including evenings and weekends, with some manual handling/bending and reaching
- Have adequate numeracy and English skills
-
Free breakfast, lunch and dinner on site, including refreshments
- Free on-site parking
- £60 towards both, dental and optical cover through our Simply Health Cash Plan
- £150 if you Refer a Friend
- Discounted gym membership at over 2000 gyms nationwide
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Opportunity to enhance your learning through our inhouse apprenticeship programme
- Pension scheme and life cover
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which offers counselling and advice on a wide variety of issues, 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Our Recruitment Process
- Application Review: Our team will contact suitable candidates.
- Interview & Assessment: Attend an in-person interview at our unit, complete a short assessment, and fill in relevant forms.
- Conditional Offer: If successful, you’ll receive a conditional offer.
- Background Checks: References and security clearance required for airport access (can take on average around 4 weeks).
- Induction & Training: Once cleared, you’ll join the team with a full induction and training day.
Apply now to get started — roles are filling quickly!
Be part of the journey before take-off.
To learn more about us and everything we do visit our dedicated careers site
dnata | Careers homepage
(INDCC)
Dnata is one of the world’s largest air and travel services providers. We provide a comprehensive range of inflight catering, onboard retail, supply chain and logistics services at all major and regional airports across the UK.
dnata Catering UK is committed to protecting your personal data. Any information you provide during the recruitment process will be processed in accordance with our Privacy Notice and used solely for recruitment purposes. Your data will be held securely and retained only for as long as necessary in line with our data retention policy.
