Kitchen Manager role overseeing day-to-day kitchen operations at Butlin's Beachcomber Inn in Skegness, ensuring food quality, consistency, and safety while leading the kitchen team. You'll manage rotas, stock, costs and standards to deliver smooth service in peak and off-peak periods. Standout perk: a culture-led environment focused on entertainment and creating memorable guest experiences.
- Strong culture and team values
- Lead and develop kitchen team
- Work in entertainment-led resort
Description
The Kitchen Manager oversees all aspects of kitchen operations, ensuring food quality, consistency, and safety standards. They lead the team, nurture and develop team members to unlock their potential, manage inventory, and ensure a smooth, efficient service during peak and off-peak hours.
Key Responsibilities
- Food Waste Minimisation
- Team hours and utilisation
- Health and Safety
- Food Standards
- Guest NPS
- Team ENPS
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Manage daily kitchen operations, including food prep, cooking, and presentation.
- Lead all kitchen team, fostering a collaborative and efficient team environment.
- Conduct pre-shift briefings to allocate tasks and duties for the day, inspect uniforms and monitor staff timekeeping / absences.
- Monitor food safety standards, ensuring compliance with health regulations
- Championing food quality across all kitchens, making sure chefs adhere strictly to all food specs and cooking methods, taking accountability for all dishes produced.
- Ensure our food offering aligns to proposition, doing regular taste tests at all sections.
- Review guest numbers for the next 7 days with the Senior Kitchen Manager, and communicate to team during briefings.
- Order ingredients and supplies, working closely with JKMs to manage budget constraints and minimize waste.
- Maintain a clean and organized kitchen, adhering to sanitation standards at all times.
- Handle team rotas in the absence of the Senior Kitchen Manager, ensuring adequate coverage for all shifts.
- Tracking daily food costs via the Food Costs Tracker software.
- Ensure all team members comply with company policies and standards.
- Be a visible presence in the kitchen to ensure standards are continuously high and team members have support whilst on shift.
- Monitoring equipment function and flag up issues in a timely fashion.
- Make sure all relevant paperwork is completed and that closing checks are complete on a daily basis.
- Lead the training and development of team members, following the development pathway for staff progression.
About Butlin's
Did you know Billy Butlin was the first person to introduce dodgems to the UK? That's right, 'fun' is in our DNA, and we've been delighting guests for almost 90 years. Ask any of our team, past and present, and one of the best things they'll say about working at Butlin's is our culture.
As The Home of Entertainment, we pull out all the stops to provide our guests with an 'Altogether More Entertaining and Fun Break', from all-action family holidays to adult-only Big Weekenders, brought to life through our three mighty values. So, if you're looking for a role where you can Create Smiles, where you aren't afraid to Get Stuck In and where the team genuinely Care For Each Other, we think you'll fit right in!