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Kitchen Porter

  • Full-time
  • Grouville
  • Start as soon as possible

Keep our kitchen running. It's a hands-on role where accuracy matters as much as speed, because every meal we send out carries a nutrition label that has to be right.

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About the role

We make healthy, ready-to-eat meals that are cooked in our kitchen in Grouville, portioned to the gram, packed and delivered across Jersey each week.

As our Kitchen Porter, you'll plate and weigh ingredients into meals alongside the chefs, keep the kitchen spotless, get deliveries unpacked and stored properly, and help bag up customer orders on delivery days.

What you’ll do

Plating and portioning

  • Weigh and plate ingredients exactly to the recipe sheet, to the gram
  • Label, lid and chill finished meals promptly, and log what's been plated
  • Flag anything that looks off straight away, such as a short-weight batch or a missing component

Kitchen cleaning

  • Wash up pots, trays and equipment through the shift and keep the pot-wash clear
  • Clean and sanitise surfaces, floors, fridges and storage to the cleaning schedule
  • Complete the daily cleaning and temperature checks

Deliveries and storage

  • Check deliveries against the order and report shortages or damage
  • Put stock away in the right place with correct labels, dates and rotation (first in, first out)
  • Keep the storeroom organised so the chefs can find what they need

Delivery days

  • Pick and bag customer orders accurately from the order list
  • Check each bag before it goes out and add the right inserts, ice packs and labels
  • Stage bags for the drivers in route order and help load the vans

What we’re looking for

Essential

  • Level 2 Food Safety and Hygiene certificate, or willing to complete it before starting
  • Accurate and diligent: you take weighing and checking seriously and don't guess
  • Reliable and punctual, because our production and delivery days run to a tight timetable
  • Comfortable on your feet and lifting boxes up to 15 kg
  • Good basic English, to follow recipe sheets, order lists and cleaning schedules
  • Tidy, organised and happy working in a small team
  • Entitled to work in Jersey

Nice to have

  • Previous kitchen, food production or warehouse experience
  • Experience with stock rotation or picking and packing orders
  • An interest in healthy food and nutrition

What we offer

  • A steady rota Agreed in advance, so you can plan your week.
  • Paid training We'll cover your Level 2 Food Hygiene course if you don't hold it yet.
  • Uniform provided Everything you need for the kitchen.
  • Room to grow The chance to move into prep and cooking as we expand.

Kitchen Porter

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Or email team@viva.je.

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About the hours. This role needs some flexibility, because our order numbers change from week to week. Our main days are Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, with shifts somewhere between 7am and 8pm. Hours vary from day to day: some days run longer, some shorter.

Depending on order numbers and your availability, the role is likely to include Sundays, and sometimes Wednesdays or Thursdays.

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