Senior Catering Supervisor (EHS0194-0621)

Join our multi-award winning Facilities Management Team

About You

You will have demonstrable experience of working in a fast-moving front-of-house catering operation, in a supervisory role. To be successful you will have a positive can-do attitude and a proactive and flexible approach in delivering a high-quality customer-focused service. Your ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships at all levels will ensure that you quickly establish yourself as a key member of our award-winning FM team.

About the Role

The highly commended Commercial Services is one of the seven operational service teams within FM - providing a high-profile, professional, integrated, and extremely flexible inhouse service to all of our customers – including restaurants, coffee shops, vending and hospitality. We have received significant external catering-specific recognition and accreditation in the from the Soil Association, Vegetarian Society and Fairtrade Foundation, and we have been recognised for our part in delivering customer-centric services by the British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM).

Reporting to the Catering and Events Operations Manager, you will be part of our customer-facing service delivery team – monitoring, supporting and deploying resources across a number of outlets at the Ormskirk campus.

Rewards/Benefits

You will benefit from 22 days annual leave plus 13 bank holiday and University closure days per annum. We aim to provide our staff with a positive work life balance and have a range of schemes in place to support this. Your continued professional development is as important to us as it is to you and we demonstrate this through our investment in your CPD activity. 

You will be automatically enrolled into the Local Government Pension Scheme and have access to our staff benefits platform, which provides you with discounts across the high street to help you save money on your everyday spending such as supermarket shopping, cinema tickets, dining out and more. We also offer discounted membership to our state-of-the-art sport and leisure facilities.

About Us

Edge Hill University is “A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education. 

The University has been ranked Best University Workplace (Times Higher Education 2015), judged Best UK Employer (European Business Awards 2016) and highly commended in Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2017 for Workplace of the Year.

The Times Higher ‘University of the Year’ award celebrated our distinct role in “transforming lives” – reflecting a distinctive philosophy of creating opportunity from excellence.

Based on an award-winning campus in West Lancashire, Edge Hill University offers a stimulating and empowering environment for ambitious and high performing professionals.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy you may wish to contact Jackie Larsen, Catering & Events Operations Manager at Larsenj@edgehill.ac.uk 

At Edge Hill University we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.

Closing Date: 06 Jul 2021
Category: Support