Kitchen Porter

**Role Overview**:
The Kitchen Porter will help to keep our kitchen clean to the highest standards and assists the wider kitchen team as directed.

**Purpose of the Job**:
The purpose of a kitchen porter is to support the kitchen staff by maintaining cleanliness, organization, and hygiene in the kitchen. They perform essential tasks like washing dishes, cleaning equipment, and ensuring that workstations are kept tidy, allowing chefs and cooks to focus on preparing food efficiently.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- To take responsibility for the cleaning of all cutleries, crockery and other kitchen equipment ensuring that all is cleaned to the highest standard.
- To maintain cleanliness and tidiness of kitchen and surrounding areas
- Maintaining general cleaning standards, follow cleaning schedules and emptying bins
- To be aware of all Kitchen Risk Assessments and Standard Operating Procedures
- Observe all Health & Safety requirements. Ensuring compliance with Health and Safety procedures, risk assessments and company policies
- To undertake any other reasonable duties as may, from time to time, be required

**People Management**
- Be polite and attentive to all our guests and colleagues

**Person Specification**

**Skills**
- Experience in a busy kitchen environment would be advantageous but not essential
- Experience working within a busy team and under pressure
- Team Player

**Personal Attributes/Behaviours**:

- Pleasant, confident, and professional work manner
- The ability to identify success as well as areas for improvement
- A motivated individual who is not fazed by an ever-changing environment
- Smart appearance
- Attention to detail
- Committed
- Flexible with a ‘Can do’ approach
- Adaptable
- Team player

**Location Overview**:
Cairngorm Mountain, managed by Cairngorm Mountain (Scotland) Ltd is a popular snow sports destination in Scotland, located within the Cairngorms National Park, and has been offering snow sports for over 50 years. In winter, the resort is a commercial ski operation. In summer, the Resort serves as a tourist destination. The surrounding area attracts over 1.8 million annual visitors predominantly in summer with the Resort itself attracting circa 200,000 annual visitors.

Cairngorm Mountain Resort covers 1,418 hectares and can attract over 100,000 skiing and snowboarding visitors in the busy winter period. The Resort is an internationally renowned area of scientific interest. Cairngorm Mountain and surrounding areas contain unique natural habitats and wildlife protected by EU legislation.

In the summer, the Resort transforms as the snow melts and becomes a hub of activity, from guided walks to the mountain summit, Tubing slides and an Adventure Play Park, to generic visitors and a family market looking for activities to undertake.

Expected hours: 37.5 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Store discount

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift

Work Location: In person