Job Ref: MEL1139
Branch: Meldrum House
Location: Meldrum House, Aberdeenshire
Salary/Benefits: Competitive Salary Amazing Benefits
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Part Time
Hours per week: 20
Posted date: 06/06/2025
Closing date: 08/07/2025
Due to our ongoing popularity and commitment to excellence and innovation, we’re looking to increase our brigade with the addition of a Kitchen Assistant. We welcome the opportunity to showcase the very best of Scottish food, drink, scenery, and warm hospitality to our guests.
Our unique features include our award-winning, locally sourced cuisine, our 800-year-old Cave Bar with an impressive collection of over 120 whiskies, contemporary luxury dining domes and an exceptional golf course, ranked among Scotland’s top 100. 51 luxurious bedrooms and several diverse event spaces, including a ballroom with breathtaking views and the outdoor Titan Sky Bar dome, allows us to cater for various celebratory occasions by delivering excellence and a memorable experience.

You’ll meet great people, have fun at work, develop new friendships, learn new skills, and of course you will also receive a competitive rate of pay and a generous range of employee benefits which includes:

• 29 days holiday
• Training and development from day one
• Employee events and celebrations
• Healthy meals to enjoy while you’re working.
• Access to an external Employee Assistance Programme
• Financial Wellbeing App Wagestream, allowing you the flexibility to get paid earlier than your normal monthly pay date.
• Referral bonus when your friends or family join the team.
• Contributions to a pension plan.

Following your first successful 3 months, you’ll also receive ……

• Discount in Meldrum House restaurants
• Discounted room rates for employees, friends, and family at Meldrum House

As a Kitchen Assistant, you will assist in the delivery of amazing brand standards and immaculate kitchen and back of house facilities. You will be responsible for your own work and take pride in the high standard of cleanliness and organisation whilst adhering to all food safety and health and safety guidelines. As a Kitchen Assistant, you will be an integral part of the Kitchen and Food and Beverage departments working closely with all team members to deliver exceptional standards.

Whether working in our newly refurbished and extended state of the art main kitchen or spacious banqueting kitchen, you’ll be responsible for:

• Ensuring the kitchen/refuse areas and relevant stores, corridors and equipment are cleaned and maintained to the highest degree of cleanliness.
• Use cleaning agents and equipment within the perimeters of COSHH Legislation
• Follow all food safety and health and safety guidelines.
• Assist in the storage of food.