Kitchen Porter (Customer Service Assistant)

Come and join the team!

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated Kitchen Porters to join our Retail & Catering team. These fixed term, posts are available until 27^th July 2025.

Summary of the role
You will be committed to efficiently assisting the kitchen team with the day to day tasks that are required to produce high standards of cleanliness in a busy environment, in line with Food Safety and Health & Safety requirements.

We are looking for a customer focused team players who can work alone or in a team. You will be focused and well organised. Having qualifications in food hygiene and health and safety would be advantageous, you will hold a flexible approach to working hours and practises, as well as having good communication skills.

These posts will be operational across numerous locations within the Commercial Operations wider team.

Working 36.5 hours per week for any 5 days out of 7 this role will require you to work during the day and some evenings and weekends.

Staff and students use our facilities year round, along with external customers out of term time. Across the campuses we provide the following services; retail shops, retail catering, residential catering, licenced premises, hospitality, conferencing and events. 

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.

Benefits
We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• 39 days leave
• options for flexible working
• onsite gyms and a cycle to work scheme
• sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26wks full pay), paternity leave (up to 6wks full pay) and a Fertility Treatment Policy
• stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment
We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces. 

Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community. 

With over 30,000 students and 7,000 staff from 150 different countries we offer a diverse and engaging environment where our diversity is celebrated and valued as a major strength. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where all members of our community are supported to thrive; where diverse voices are heard through our engagement with evidence-based charter frameworks for gender (Athena SWAN and Project Juno for Physics), race equality (Race Equality Charter Mark), LGBTQ+ inclusion (Stonewall Diversity Champion) and as a Disability Confident employer.

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from service people.

Further information
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact please contact Rob Doidge, r.s.doidge@exeter.ac.uk, or 07824334478.

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