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The University of Edinburgh

Kitchen Porter

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The University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh, GB · Part-time · £24,547 – £26,900

About this role

As a Kitchen Porter, you will support the operational service delivery to our students and commercial guests throughout the year. The role is based at our largest catering unit, The John McIntyre Conference Centre located within Pollock Halls. This is a guaranteed hours position with 20 hours guaranteed per year, fully based on campus.

The John McIntyre Conference Centre is a 500-seater buffet style restaurant that provides approximately 28,000 meals per week during our student period. It offers breakfast, lunch and dinner to our commercial guests year-round. Your efforts will contribute to this high-volume catering operation.

From student accommodation to cafés, restaurants and hotels, we are a 24/7 organisation that embraces the traditional and the modern in equal measure. Our mission is to enrich student learning and growth as well as impact our local communities. Our values drive everything we do.

At ACE, are you passionate about making a difference, collaborate to achieve as a team, put inclusion at the forefront, thrive with ownership, and inspired by innovation? Together we can do great things and be part of something bigger. Join a contributor to global thinking, progress and research.

Requirements

  • Passionate about making a difference
  • Ability to collaborate and achieve as a team
  • Commitment to inclusion in all activities
  • Thrive when given ownership of tasks
  • Inspired by innovation and new ideas
  • Reliable for guaranteed hours position
  • Physically able to work in fast-paced kitchen environment

Responsibilities

  • Support operational service delivery in the kitchen
  • Maintain cleanliness in high-volume buffet style restaurant
  • Assist with meal service for 28,000 weekly meals during student period
  • Help provide breakfast, lunch and dinner to commercial guests year-round
  • Clean and sanitize kitchen equipment and areas
  • Ensure hygiene standards in 24/7 catering operations
  • Contribute to catering at John McIntyre Conference Centre

Benefits

  • 20 hours guaranteed per year
  • Open-ended permanent contract
  • Generous annual leave entitlement
  • Defined benefits pension
  • 18.1% uplift
  • Responsibility and autonomy
  • Part of diverse and vibrant international community