Kitchen Porter

  • Job Reference: APE1023
  • Date Posted: 20 September 2024
  • Recruiter: Apex Pine Trees
  • Location: Pine Trees, Pitlochry
  • Salary: On Application
  • Bonus/Benefits: £12.00 per hour plus excellent benefits, perks and paid overtime
  • Sector: Chefs - All Levels
  • Job Type: Permanent

Job Description

Why Join Pine Trees Hotel?

Experience a warm welcome in the Scottish Highlands. Join us at Pine Trees Hotel as our new Kitchen Porter and embrace the very best of Scottish culture. Nestled in the heart of Pitlochry, we invite everyone who joins our team to help us create a traditional Coorie lifestyle that reflects the natural beauty and serenity of our surroundings. At Pine Trees, we want our team and our guests to step away from the hustle and bustle and take in the breath-taking scenery within our 10-acre woodland estate.

You will work with a fantastic team with a strong focus on delivering exceptional guest experiences. We will help you to develop your skills and passions whilst offering boundless warmth and hospitality. Bringing your own ideas and creativity, to the Kitchen Porter role, you will assist us to guide the guest experience beyond the expectation.  

Benefits:

  • 29 days holiday 
  • Training and development from day one
  • Employee events and celebrations
  • Inhouse company interactive employee communication APP
  • Healthy meals to enjoy while you're working.
  • Access to an external Employee Assistance Programme
  • Financial Wellbeing App Wagestream, allowing you the flexibility to get paid earlier than your normal monthly pay date.
  • £200 referral bonus when your friends or family join the team.

Following your first successful 3 months, you'll also receive  

  • Access to our discounts and wellbeing platform Treat Yourself Here , unlocking savings and experiences for you and your family.
  • Involvement in our employee of the quarter and annual recognition schemes
  • Long service recognition
  • Probation pass and annual anniversary complimentary guest experience overnight stay and dinner for two
  • 50% discount in our restaurants
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Discounted room rates for employees, friends, and family
  • Critical Illness & Life Assurance cover

Your Role:

As a Kitchen Porter, you will assist in the delivery of high standards and immaculate kitchen and back of house facilities. You will be responsible for your own work and take pride in your high standard of cleanliness and organisation whilst adhering to all food safety and health and safety guidelines. As a Kitchen Porter, you will be a vital part of the Kitchen department, working closely with all team members to deliver exceptional standards.

You will bring a passion and attention to detail that will make you an exceptional Food & Beverage Assistant that our guests will love to interact with. Your passion will ignite the experiences for our guests.

Joining the kitchen brigade, you will:

  • Ensure the kitchen/refuse areas and relevant stores, corridors and equipment are cleaned and maintained to the highest degree of cleanliness.
  • Use cleaning agents and equipment within the perimeters of COSHH Legislation
  • Follow all food safety and health and safety guidelines.
  • Assist in the preparation of food.

As a Kitchen Porter, you will have excellent attention to detail in order to provide consistent standards. This is a vital role in the function of the hotel.

We will support you by giving you the platform to develop, learn & shine!

We ask of you:

  • Deliver excellent standards.
  • Use initiative.
  • Be self-aware and able to evaluate you own work.
  • Have a customer service attitude.
  • Have the ability to multi-task and provide excellent attention to detail.
  • Exceptional Food safety standards

We look forward to receiving your application for this role and welcoming you into our warm and friendly team and our haven within the Scottish Highlands.