Job Title: Kitchen Assistant Manager
Location: Cheltenham (5 days a week across 7 days, 6.30am to 5pm)
Reporting to: Kitchen Manager
Contract Type: Full Time
Job Purpose
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.
Key Responsibilities
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
Constantly striving for excellence, ensuring the kitchen team supports the store teams with consistently great quality product every single day
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
Experience working with in high-volume food production or kitchen
Experience supervisory/management within a food business
Food Level Qualification – Level 2 or equivalent
Skills and Competencies
Strong communication skills
Strong coaching skills, with the ability to motivate and mentor a team
Passionate about delivering consistently great quality food every single day
Excellent attention to detail and problem-solving abilities
Proactive and solutions-focused mindset
Ability to work under pressure and adapt to the needs of the shift
