Job Title: Kitchen Assistant Manager
Location: Cheltenham (5 days a week across 7 days, 6.30am to 5pm)
Reporting to: Kitchen Manager
To support the Kitchen Manager in overseeing all daily kitchen operations, ensuring consistently high standards of food quality, hygiene, and staff management are continuously maintained.
At SOHO Coffee, our central production kitchen in Cheltenham is where we make daily a selection of products such as Toasties, Sandwiches, Salads and Muffins, to send out to our stores. This role is a pivotal support role to the Kitchen Manager, in delivering consistently great standards every day.
Assist in managing daily kitchen duties, including product and ingredient preparation, cooking and baking, to ensure smooth workflow and timely delivery of finished product
Ensure all product is prepared according to standardized recipes and quality standards, monitoring portion control, temperature, and presentation
Assist the Kitchen Manager by supervising, training, mentoring, and motivating kitchen staff and new hires, manage staff schedules and rotas, and assist with performance evaluations and disciplinary meetings
Required Qualifications and Experience