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Atholl Estates:

Atholl Estates is an exceptional place, offering the best Scotland has to offer in visitor experiences, holiday accommodation, events and timber and food production. The estates are the largest provider of affordable housing to the locally employed in Highland Perthshire, producers of enough hydroelectricity to power over 1300 homes and actively planting over 1000 hectares of new woodland and restoring 250 hectares of peatland annually to contribute towards the challenge of addressing climate change and biodiversity decline.

The Role:

• Line management and leadership of the department, including responsibility for recruitment, training and safety
• Contract management, ensuring sufficient and competitive, multi-trade labour supply to meet our commercial objectives
• Budget, forecasting and cash flow management
• Stock management
• Tight controls on expenditure through value engineering, tendering, purchase orders
• Compliance with all property regulations
• Property preventative maintenance planning
• Cyclical property capital expenditure planning
• Condition assessment and database management
• Capital projects
• Support to operations across the estates

For full job description and information on how to apply:

Hours: full-time (35hrs a week), temporary

The Role:

For more information or to apply, get in touch with Angus below.

Permanent contract

Hours: Flexible working, zero-hour contracts available

Atholl Estates is looking for Lodge Cleaners and Housekeepers to help care for their beautiful and historic properties in the Tulliemet area, Blair Atholl and Struan

• Flexible hours
• £11 per hour
• Excellent pension scheme
• A driving licence would be advantageous, but is not essential.
• Generous mileage reimbursement for private car use.

If you are interested in joining our friendly team we would love to hear from you. 

Contract: Full time, permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, 5 days out of 7

The catering department within Blair Castle has recently moved to an in-house operation, meaning it is under large changes. We are looking to develop the catering offering to produce good, fresh, local, and seasonal food for our customers to enjoy. We are looking for a Chef to head up the team and develop the food offering.

This job description is a guide to the work you will initially be required to undertake. It may be changed from time to time to incorporate changing circumstances.

Purpose of the Role

• Leadership of the catering team to deliver a customer food service experience to consistently high standards.
• Embedding processes and policies that ensure compliance with health and safety measures, HACCP and COSHH.
• Flexing the catering offer to meet the needs of the castle and our visitors.
• Developing and following budget by ensuring careful management of stock, staffing and menu pricing.

Key Accountabilities

• Meeting or exceeding budget in sales and cost control.
• Administration of team employment procedures.
• Adhere to all company Health & Safety policies and procedures at all times e.g. Food Handling, Manual handling, Fire procedures, Allergens, Temperature checks.
• Ensure evidence of HACCP based procedures to ensure safe food production.
• Manage and maintain the cleanliness of all kitchens and surrounding working areas ensuring Health and Safety hazards, issues, near misses and accidents are reported using the appropriate reporting procedures at the earliest opportunity.
• Ensure all equipment and machinery is in safe working order, all faults/repairs are reported using the appropriate reporting procedures at the earliest opportunity.
• Manage the delivery of the food service provision required, utilising all available resources effectively and efficiently, ensuring that all meals are provided to the required quality standards at the specified times to create a consistent customer experience and avoid any service failures.
• Role model the values and behaviours expected by Atholl Estates at all times to colleagues and customers.
• Process orders and monitor stock levels to ensure there is no impact to service or large amounts of wastage.
• Check invoices and delivery notes and report any anomalies appropriately.
• Ensure delivery of goods received from suppliers are correctly packaged, maintained at correct temperatures and report any concerns or observations as appropriate.
• Ensure the recovery and storage of food and correct labelling procedures are followed.
• Oversee and monitor all stocktaking procedures ensuring minimal risk of waste.
• Train, lead, inspire and develop the team, confronting poor performance.
• To identify courses for own personal development particularly within compliance.
• Working with the Management Team to deliver stock control, margins reporting and staffing costs.

Essential

• Excellent cooking skills across a broad spectrum of menus.
• A good communicator, able to liaise confidently with customers and engage, motivate, and develop team members.
• An enthusiastic individual with a passion for food and excellent service delivery
• Follows the right health & safety procedures and challenges unsafe behaviors.
• Is flexible and takes initiative.
• Is positive & proud, a good leader.

To apply, please send a copy of your CV and a cover letter to Karen