Chef De Partie- Pre-Flight Hospitality - London City Airport

As a Senior Culinary Colleague, you will report to the Culinary Lead and focus on Food preparation and prestation along with all other aspects of Back of House hygiene to ensure guest expectations are met and exceeded, ensuring we consistently deliver Aspire’s People, Place and Provender hallmarks.

Your role is to maintain service excellence of the lounge, and ensuring a consistent, high-quality guest experience. You will amplify our people behaviours of Empathy, Efficiency and Discretion, ensuring every guest interaction reflects Aspire’s service standards and leaves guests feeling their time has been well spent.

•Working with the front of house team to ensure all food and beverage offerings are continually available.•Prepare hot and cold food offerings to ensure the pantry is presented in a professional and clean manner.•Ensure the quality of food is prepared according to all manuals to guarantee a consistently excellent standard of service.•Ensure all food is stored, handled and packaged correctly.•Always Follow the Operations Manual.•Maintain records of temperatures and cleaning standards within the hygiene system.•Guide guests to food and drink options available including knowledge of dietary and allergen information across a variety of meat vegetarian and vegan dishes.•Maximise revenue by preparing ancillary items for guests to purchase.

•Loading and unloading of the dishwasher.•Receive and store stock delivery and rotation.•Waste away services following recycling procedures.•Restocking of cleaned crockery.•Maintaining high levels of hygiene in all areas•Assist the Culinary team with retrieving stock required•Assist the Culinary team with applying the Food Safety Management System consistently.

Adhoc reasonable requests by local leadership team will form part of your role. The list above is not exhaustive and is not intended to restrict the scope of the job but clearly define a starting point and may vary depending on location and local customer requirements.

•Have a passion for the food service industry.•Experience in high volume hospitality kitchen environment.•Ability to work as part of a team or be self-motivated to complete tasks.•Ability to follow processes and procedures and to apply flexibility when required.•Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.•Ability to build positive and trusting relationships with colleagues and guests•Flexible approach to working hours (including early mornings, evenings and weekends).•Flexible to work shifts covering 04:00 to 22:30, Mon-Fri / 04:00 to 14:00 Sat / 10:30 to 22:30 Sun

•Computer literate, including use of payment systems and Microsoft Office.•Additional languages.