Kitchen Assistant in Penrith

As part of the Filling Station team you will work efficiently to ensure your colleagues have a continuous supply of breakfast items like sausages, bacon and warm rolls as well as baguettes, sausage rolls and pies for the lunchtime rush as well as other key times to ensure availability for our visiting customers.

You will take care when preparing our baguettes to make sure all the ingredients are fresh and they are made to our high standards, you will need to ensure that our food items are kept replenished throughout the day to ensure customers are encouraged to buy our freshly prepared products.

You will ensure a high standard of cleanliness and hygiene in our kitchen areas and follow all relevant food hygiene and allergen guidelines.

You should have a positive 'can do mindset, a passion for delivering great customer service and a willingness to learn about our products.

If you have previous experience in a food production environment that's great but don't worry if you don't. We offer full training to get you up to speed and give you knowledge of all our products and how we work at the Westmorland Family.

At Westmorland we are family business that started in 1972 from our farm in Cumbria, which runs unique motorway service areas – Tebay, Gloucester and Cairn Lodge – based on no franchises but instead our own Farmshops and Kitchens. We also have Junction 38, a services dedicated to HGV drivers, Rheged, a meeting place, Cafe, Gallery and Cinema, and the Westmorland Hotel situated on the edge of the Lake District.

We are proud to be connected to our place and that our family of colleagues share our values of Warmth, Graft and Courage. If you join our family it will be hard work at times but we offer a great range of benefits including generous discounts in our farmshops and kitchens, free meals when working on shift, generous holiday entitlements plus a paid day off for your birthday and more.