Start an Exciting New Chapter in Your Hospitality Career at Hickory's Smokehouse

We are thrilled to have been recently crowned the ‘Best Pub Employer’ for 2025 at The Publican Awards! 🔥

Are you currently an experienced trainer who is bursting with passion, ambition, and ready for your next big challenge?

Are you driven by developing others? Are you a person that can lead and inspire? In this role, you will be involved in the recruitment and training of our restaurant teams!

Your role will embrace our ‘Southern Hospitality’ mindset through leading team trips and help us bring our authentic southern style hospitality to the UK. If you hold the qualities to develop others and deliver personalised top-class service, then you might have the spark we are looking for!

Essential Requirements of a Successful Hickory's Restaurant Trainer

• Previous training or coaching experience in a similar role within a fast-paced or high-volume restaurant environment.
• Previous experience with project management.
• Can work to strict timeframes.
• Overnight stays will be required.
• Love to pass on your knowledge to all team and guests.
• Ability to motivate, coach, train, and develop the team to the Hickory's standard.
• Passionate about delivering an amazing guest experience and pushing the team to reach their full potential.
• Have a welcoming, empathetic, and infectious personality.
• The drive to find grey areas, think outside the box, and never give up on any team member!
• The ability to evaluate our processes and bring new ideas.
• Open and honest communication skills, experience of or the ability to give feedback.
• Can set and maintain the highest standards.