Santa Pod Raceway is the UK’s most action-packed venue and home of European Drag Racing, hosting a variety of motorsport and lifestyle car shows and festivals.
Santa Pod Raceway is looking to expand its existing catering team and appoint a Deputy Catering Manager to assist the department head. You will support in overseeing and operating a total of 6 in-house, on-site fast food and coffee outlets throughout the course of the season’s busy event weekends. You will be part of a small but highly productive team and as such you will be expected to be “up and running” in a short period of time.
As this department expands, the role will grow accordingly with additional training and career development opportunities.
Duties and responsibilities
Weekend roles:
- Cooking and serving customers with food and drink.
- Overseeing catering staff and their roles.
- Working with cash and card payments; cashing up at end of day; replenishing float throughout the day
- Dealing with customers queries/complaints professionally.
- Maintaining and cleaning the appearance of all outlets.
- Quality Control of products sold and control of wastage.
- Maintain H&S - Understand and maintain HACCP. Ensure that COSHH, Food Safety and Health & Safety regulations are adhered to and any incidents are reported in line with procedures.
- Experienced using an EPOS/till system.
Weekday roles:
- Monitor stock levels and replenishment
- Creating purchase orders and ordering stock.
- Stocktaking - helping with detailed stock levels, including date rotation.
- Event set up including deep cleaning of units.
- Managing floats.
Skills and attributes required:
- Level 2 or higher in Food Hygiene
- Knowledge and experience within the event catering business.
- First class customer service and well presented.
- Highly organised to ensure deadlines are met.
- Must be charismatic and have a confident, enthusiastic personality.
- Flexible approach to work and able to work under pressure.
- Computer-literate.
- Be confident with up-selling and promoting products and services
- Full UK manual driving Licence
Minimum 21 hours contract per week PLUS additional event days/evenings at weekends during the race season March – November. Flexible weekdays off according to the needs of the role.