Onezone Kitchen Porter

As a Kitchen Porter/Cleaning Operative, you will play a vital role in maintaining the cleanliness and hygiene of our busy catering outlets, which serve over 3,000 resident students as well as a large number of non-resident students, and university staff. You will ensure that all heavy-duty equipment and kitchen areas are consistently cleaned and maintained to the highest standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Regularly clean heavy-duty kitchen equipment, appliances, and canopies across all sites.
• Clean kitchen walls and floors as needed, ensuring adherence to food hygiene standards.
• Empty and sanitize refuse bins in a timely manner.
• Assist with stock handling, including unloading deliveries to central stores.
• Perform all cleaning duties in compliance with COSHH and current food hygiene regulations.
• Prioritize health and safety by following kitchen safety basics and ensuring compliance with the university’s policies.
• Foster positive relationships with customers and team members, attending relevant meetings when required.
• Promote and support the university’s equal opportunities policy and sustainability goals in line with Strategy 2030.
• Carry out additional tasks as needed, ensuring all duties align with the role’s responsibilities.

What We’re Looking For:

• A background in cleaning or portering, preferably within a large, interdependent department or complex organization.
• Experience working in the hospitality sector, specifically in kitchen operations, is essential.
• Ability to prioritize kitchen cleanliness and due diligence processes, ensuring deep cleans are completed when required.
• Strong commitment to delivering exceptional customer service, working within a team to meet financial and operational targets. 

At UWE Bristol, we have ambitious plans for our Hospitality Services, and you can be part of that vision. In this role, you’ll help us maintain a welcoming and clean environment for all our customers while contributing to the overall success of our catering outlets.

Whilst this role is supporting a weekly outlet, we expect all our staff to be available to work between 6:30 am and 12:30 am Monday to Sunday, with shifts on a Rota basis, and you will be an integral part of this team. 

This is a permanent role, working 37 hours, and we’ve got some really generous overtime rates to make overtime worth your while.

Any shifts after 8 pm attract an additional one-fifth of the hourly rate and overtime is paid at time and a half; with double time on a Sunday.

Where is this role based?

Frenchay campus.

Why UWE Bristol? 

We offer a wide range of employee benefits including progressive pay rates, generous annual leave and career average pension schemes as well as retail savings, onsite nursery.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian or racially minoritised candidates as we are currently under-represented in this area of the organisation, however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit.

As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.

Further information

If you would like to speak to us to find out more about this role, please contact Kristian Fernandez-Mitchell on 0117 328 84556 or email: kristian.fernandez-mitchell@uwe.ac.uk.

Interviews are scheduled to take place at our Frenchay campus.

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