Assistant Kitchen Manager
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Description
Hilton York located in the heart of the historic city of York, our 131 bedroom hotel is the perfect base to explore, connect, and unwind. Just moments from iconic landmarks, shops, and transport links, it’s ideally suited for both business and leisure stays.
Here's what you'll do during a typical day:
• Team of 9 chefs
• Oversee kitchen operations: Manage food preparation, presentation, and production while ensuring quality, safety, sanitation, and cost control to maximize efficiency and profitability
• Manage administrative functions: Oversee kitchen systems, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and team member operations
• Ensure ingredient quality: Select, inspect, and utilize high-quality food and beverage products, including meats, seafood, produce, and seasonings
• Enhance menu offerings: Create and implement new dishes and seasonal menus to elevate the dining experience
• Lead a high-performing team: Supervise and support team members, recruit new talent, monitor development and performance, provide coaching and foster a positive and productive work environment
• Uphold regulatory standards: Maintain compliance with health, safety, sanitation, and alcohol awareness regulations, ensuring the highest standards of guest and team member wellbeing
Qualifications
What It Takes to Make the Stay
At Hilton, our core values define what it takes to succeed here and guide the qualities we look for in every team member:
A passion for spreading the light and warmth of Hospitality. Acting with Integrity and always doing the right thing. Inspiring others through Leadership. A belief that Teamwork drives the best outcomes. A sense of Ownership and accountability. And a focus on the Now, bringing urgency and discipline to every moment, knowing it can make a lasting impact.
About this role
You'd be managing the kitchen operations at Hilton York's 131-bedroom hotel in the city centre, overseeing a team of 9 chefs across food preparation, plating, production, and cost control. The role blends hands-on kitchen leadership with administrative responsibility—you'll handle budgeting, forecasting, compliance reporting, and team recruitment and development alongside day-to-day supervision. You'll also shape the dining offer by creating and implementing new dishes and seasonal menus, while maintaining rigorous standards around ingredient quality, health and safety, and sanitation.
This position suits someone with strong operational and people management skills who can balance efficiency with quality. You'll need experience in a kitchen environment, familiarity with food safety and regulatory compliance, and the ability to lead, coach, and recruit a small team. The role demands both strategic thinking (menu development, budgeting) and tactical execution (daily kitchen management), so you should be comfortable moving between planning and doing.
Hilton emphasizes its workplace culture and values—hospitality, integrity, leadership, teamwork, and ownership—so this is a company that invests in its people. The York location offers a stable, full-time position in a historic city with good transport links and established hospitality infrastructure.
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