Back to search
Job Overview
As a Chef, you will work from our Gatwick Unit, as an important member of the team and be responsible for the preparation and cooking of delicious in-flight meals as well as supporting with customer presentations as required. Working to tight timelines, you will communicate effectively with the kitchen staff to ensure meals are prepared to exact specifications and quantities and that the work area is kept safe and as clean as possible while maintaining high standards of quality, hygiene, and health and safety at all times. You will actively support the cooking activities on all of our non-airline contracts as well.
What will life as a Chef look like for you:
- £15.99 per hour
- Overtime @ 1.5 times the hourly rate
- 4 on 2 off pattern Flexible across diff shifts (05:00 -13:30, 06:00 14:30. 12:00 20:00, 14:00 22:30)
- Inhouse training and development
- Complimentary meals & beverages
- Free Uniform
- Company sick pay
- Free on-site parking
- Paid Holiday
- Regular shift patterns
- Pension scheme to help you save for your future
- Bespoke employee support programme, including free counselling sessions
- Refer a friend scheme with generous bonuses for each successful referral
- Access to a great discount platform, saving you money on everyday purchases and so much more
- Cycle to work scheme
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- To work in the kitchen area cooking, preparing and assembling food onto plates.
- To ensure all items are produced to specification.
- To work as part of a team.
- To assist with menu development
- To maintain awareness of department and possess knowledge of customer products and requirements.
- To ensure quality of products is safeguarded at all times to make for a safe and hygienic workplace.
- To work in the back rooms when required.
- To assist in meeting Production targets as set by Line Managers.
- Follows recipes; prepares and cook products to specification
- Carry out yield testing
- Assemble meals to specification
- Responsible for safe and clean work station and equipment at all times.
Qualifications and Experience:
Education:
Educated to GSE or O levels;
Basic Food hygiene training/certification is desirable
A recognised City & Guilds qualification or NVQ Level 2 for a Chef is desirable
Work Experience:
Significant experience of volume cooking in a hotel/restaurant/airline environment while working to tight deadlines.
Skills & Knowledge:
Good verbal and written communication skills in English
Good interpersonal and communication skills.
Ability to work as part of a team.
Ability to work unsupervised in a busy environment using own initiative
Basic computer skills
Ability to work to tight deadlines
Accurate/detailed focused
About the company:
Gate Gourmet is the world's largest independent provider of catering services for airlines and are the core business behind gategroup, whose eleven associated brands offer customers a comprehensive scope of products and services for virtually any on-board need. We provide more than 200 million meals a year to our 270-plus customers at some 120 airport locations around the globe.
All applicants must have the right to work in the UK, undertake a CRC (Criminal Record Check) and provide 5 years of checkable referencing history. For anytime spent outside the uk exceeding 6 months, you must be able to provide a CRC (Criminal Record Check) for that country.
