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Catering Assistant

£12.2 - £13.7 per hourEstimated
Full-time

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Location: Charles River Laboratories (CDL), Tranent, EH33 2NE

Salary: £24,562.79 / £13.45 per hour

Contract type: Permanent, full-time, 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Shift pattern: 7:30 am to 3:00pm, leaving your evenings free – a rarity when you work in hospitality

As a Catering Assistant with Aramark UK at Charles River Laboratories, Tranent , you'll be part of a friendly team providing high-quality food and customer service within a world-leading scientific research environment. Supporting employees and visitors across the site, you'll enjoy a varied role, a supportive workplace and the satisfaction of contributing to an organisation that helps advance scientific and medical research.

Aramark UK are making a work life balance achievable whilst still working in hospitality, cultivating your culinary career with a world leading organisation. Aramark provides world-class contract catering services to our extensive list of clients across the UK, including Defence and Judicial, private industry and Education. We are lucky to have some of the best Culinary and Catering talent that the UK has to offer working within our teams.

Why join us?

  • Free meals and amply parking.
  • You will have access to our Employee Benefits Platform - which includes online GP access, Employee Assistance Scheme, 100's of discounts, including savings on your weekly supermarket shop and weekend treats.
  • We also offer a company package including life assurance, pension contributions, generous holiday entitlement with the option to buy more, and many more benefits.
  • You will also be joining a talented team, with fabulous career prospects and could lead to all sorts of opportunities – we LOVE to promote from within.
  • As we are passionate about developing our people from within, great training is provided. We also offer apprenticeship schemes, so that your learning journey can continue.

What you’ll do

  • Basic food preparation including sandwiches, grab and go items, basic hot food if required.
  • Serving customers and operating the till, providing opportunities for upselling products, and ensuring you are providing excellent customer service at all times.
  • Stocking up and putting away deliveries
  • General cleaning back and front of house, making sure the unit is clean and tidy before, during and after service.

What we’re looking for

  • Food hygiene certificate – Level 2 desirable. However, relevant training will be provided.
  • No previous experience required, but 1-2 years’ experience in a food services or retail environment desirable
  • Work well as part of a team

If you’re ready to join a world-leading hospitality team and make a difference every day, apply now!

About Aramark UK

At Aramark UK, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is valued and empowered to thrive. As a proud Disability Confident and Forces Friendly employer, we actively encourage applications from individuals of all abilities and are dedicated to supporting employees with disabilities throughout their career journey.

We ensure our recruitment process is accessible, and reasonable adjustments are available at every stage, from application to interview and employment. If you require any accommodations or have any questions, please reach out to our recruitment team – View email address on uk.workus.org.

All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.

If you are applying for this role and you already work for Aramark, you must notify your line manager before submitting your application.

Job reference: 636811.

Vacancy posted 10 days ago
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