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Kitchen Assistant Supervisor
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Kitchen Assistant Supervisor
Somerset Larder
As a Kitchen Assistant Supervisor, you will oversee food prep and assembly operations while ensuring high standards of safety, quality, and efficiency. Acting as a link between management and staff, you will direct daily production workflows while fostering a fair, inclusive environment where tasks are shared equally and every team member receives opportunities to learn.
Fair Team Leadership & People Management (Togetherness & Nurture)
- Fair Task Distribution: Rotate tasks fairly, ensuring balance across the team whilst ensuring all staff can complete all tasks.
- Equal Opportunity Champion: Create an inclusive team culture where every Kitchen Assistant receives equal access to on-the-job training and cross-skilling across different prep sections.
- Supportive & Objective Management: Lead by example with consistency, fairness, and transparency (Togetherness). Resolve day-to-day shift issues objectively and supportively.
- Team Morale & Inclusion: Encourage open communication, foster strong teamwork across shifts, and ensure every team member feels valued, heard, and respected regardless of background or experience level.
Production & Operational Supervision
- Oversee daily prep, assembly, and packaging workflows for high-volume ready-to-eat products and salads.
- Ensure all products strictly follow approved spec sheets, portion controls, and wastage controls.
- Monitor efficiency to ensure production schedule is met on time.
- Assist in organising daily shift allocations, rotation of duties, and break management fairly across the team.
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Quality, Food Safety & Hygiene Standards
- Working with kitchen assistants, supporting food safety, ensuring strict adherence to HACCP guidelines, CCP controls, and allergen segregation procedures.
- Monitor traceability documentation and blast chilling records.
- Implement clean as you go attitude ensuring workstations and production areas meet high cleaning standards on every shift.
- Report operational hazards, equipment faults, or product non-conformances immediately to senior supervisors/management.
- The role is based primarily within temperature-controlled cold rooms (chilled environments, <8°C) to maintain product freshness and safety.
Thermal protective wear and specialised PPE are fully provided. Requires physical stamina, including standing for extended periods and lifting.
Qualifications -
- Experience in inclusive leadership, shift delegation, or mentoring staff.
- Level 3 Award in Food Safety / HACCP certification.
- Health & Safety qualification or First Aid at Work certificate.
- Experience operating in chilled high-care or high-risk manufacturing environments.
Skills/Knowledge/Experience Required:
Essential
- Leadership & Fairness: Demonstrated ability to lead people fairly and impartially, fostering an inclusive team dynamic with equal support for all members.
- Experience: Proven track record in a high-volume food production, central assembly kitchen, or commercial catering environment.
- Qualifications: Level 2 Award in Food Safety in Catering/Manufacturing (or willingness to achieve Level 3 upon appointment).
- Communication: Clear, open, and empathetic communication skills to mentor and direct a diverse team during busy production.
- Attention to Detail: Precise approach to specs and allergen safety.
- Flexibility: Adaptable mindset regarding shift patterns, rota schedules, and support throughout the Central Production Kitchen.
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Interpersonal Skills
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Fairness & Impartiality
Treats every team member consistently and without bias, ensuring work assignments, break rotations, and development opportunities are distributed equitably. -
Empathetic & Active Listening
Demonstrates a genuine willingness to listen to staff concerns, feedback, or shift challenges, ensuring team members feel heard, valued, and respected. -
Clear & Approachable Communication
Adapts communication style to suit a diverse team, delivering daily briefs clearly, giving constructive feedback supportively, and maintaining an open-door presence. -
Conflict Resolution
Handles floor-level disagreements, friction, or misunderstandings calmly and objectively, de-escalating tensions before they impact shift morale. -
Team Motivation & Engagement
Drives a positive, collaborative environment ("Be a tractor, not a trailer"), encouraging teamwork, recognizing good work, and keeping morale high during busy production runs. -
Mentorship & Coaching Mindset
Takes pride in supporting staff (Nurture), offering patient guidance and encouragement to help others succeed.
For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability, or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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