Kitchen Manager
3 months ago
We are looking for a talented and motivated Kitchen Manager to lead our Kitchen operation at The Dragonfly Hotel at Ardleigh, just outside Colchester.
The Dragonfly Colchester hotel offers a relaxing and comfortable place to stay whether travelling for business or leisure. With Colchester’s historic City Centre just a few minutes away and the beautiful Essex countryside close by, it’s the ideal base from which to explore the local area. Inside the Dragonfly Hotel in Colchester, you’ll find every amenity that’s required for our guests to feel like it’s a home from home in one of our 50 rooms, such as free WiFi, 43” flat screen TVs, ironing & tea and coffee making facilities and gloriously welcoming Hypnos beds. Our family hotel offers a personalized experience at an extremely affordable price.
As Kitchen Manager you will be tasked with cooking food to an outstanding level to provide to all of our customers and we are looking for experience in either a hotel or pub environment, whilst leading the other chef(s) to maintain similar standards.
We are looking for our Kitchen Manager to have:
- Fantastic cooking ability
- Experience leading a kitchen, including costings, stock ordering, audits, team rotas and reducing wastage
- Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills
- The ability to work well under pressure
- The ability to deliver high standards consistently
- High standards of health and hygiene- you like your kitchen Clean with a capital 'C'
- Great teamwork
The Kitchen Manager role requires:
- Preparing and cooking items on the menu- to specifications
- Organising and labelling the kitchen and it's storage
- Managing and ordering in stock
- Keeping wastage to a minimum
- Food safety Level 3
- Confidence in using computerised ordering, rotaing and compliance applications
- Managing the kitchen, its operation and cleanliness
- Complying to food safety and other regulations and checks as set out by the business operations
In return for your passion for food and great service we offer you:
- Great place to work and team ethos
- Share of Tronc/Tips
- Training and development opportunities through apprenticeships, qualifications and transfer opportunities within the Group
- Free Parking
- Bike to Work scheme
- Increasing Annual Leave
- Heavily discounted hotel stays and dining across the Group- up to 50% off
- Employee Assistance Programme with Hospitality Action, for when things in personal life may become a little overwhelming- free and confidential advice- health, welfare, finance and emotional support
- Wagestream- ability to access and stream your wages as you earn them, putting you in charge of your finances- including savings pots and access to retail and supermarket discounts
Surya Hotels is one of the UK’s leading niche hotel groups, with a rapidly expanding portfolio of outstanding properties, situated in some of the UK’s most idyllic settings, from historic Suffolk and Norfolk towns, Essex City or coastal resorts to picturesque Surrey villages.
Our hospitality family has a ‘best in class’ ethos to exceed our guest expectations; creating experiences that embrace our heritage locations, our people and the communities we work within.
We aim to consistently deliver best in class experiences with personality and warmth. From our warm welcome, to our ‘See-you-again-soon’ Goodbye.
Stay. Explore. Discover.
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