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Behind every relaxed lounge experience is a strong team. Will you be our Lounge Kitchen Assistant?
Swissport is a global leader in aviation services, providing ground handling, cargo handling, and passenger services for more than 300 million passengers every year.
At Swissport, our people make the difference. Our core values
“Show You Care, Do the Right Things, and Win as a Team” are central to everything we do. For our operations at Schiphol Airport, we are looking for enthusiastic colleagues who want to work with us to ensure a safe and efficient airport.
Do you want to work in one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing sectors in Travel & Hospitality? Do you have a passion for excellent guest service and enjoy meeting new people every day? Then this role is perfect for you.
Aspire Lounges has been operating since 1987 and has grown into Europe’s largest airport lounge brand and the second largest worldwide. Every day, we welcome more than 18,000 guests across over one hundred lounges globally. We provide travellers with a high-quality and relaxing experience based on our promise:
“time well spent.”
We are looking for enthusiastic candidates to join our hospitality team and help deliver the best airport lounge experience in the world.
As a Culinary Colleague, you will report to the Culinary Lead and focus on Food preparation and prestation along with all other aspects of Back of House hygiene to ensure guest expectations are met and exceeded, ensuring we consistently deliver Aspire’s People, Place and Provender hallmarks.
Job Summary
Your role is to maintain service excellence of the lounge, and ensuring a consistent, high-quality guest experience. You will amplify our people behaviours of Empathy, Efficiency and Discretion, ensuring every guest interaction reflects Aspire’s service standards and leaves guests feeling their time has been well spent.
Key Responsibilities
- Working with the front of house team to ensure all food and beverage offerings are continually available.
- Prepare hot and cold food offerings to ensure the pantry is presented in a professional and clean manner.
- Ensure the quality of food is prepared according to all manuals to guarantee a consistently excellent standard of service.
- Ensure all food is stored, handled and packaged correctly.
- Always Follow the Operations Manual.
- Maintain records of temperatures and cleaning standards within the hygiene system.
- Guide guests to food and drink options available including knowledge of dietary and allergen information across a variety of meat vegetarian and vegan dishes.
Essential Skills
- Have a passion for the food service industry.
- Experience in high volume hospitality kitchen environment.
- Ability to work as part of a team or be self-motivated to complete tasks.
- Ability to follow processes and procedures and to apply flexibility when required.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to build positive and trusting relationships with colleagues and guests
- Flexible approach to working hours (including early mornings, evenings and weekends). Available to work shifts between 05:30 and 22:30, 7 days a week.
Benefits
- A dynamic job in an international working environment at Schiphol Airport.
- A contract between 24 and 38 hours per week.
- A salary ranging from a minimum of 2.705,48 to a maximum of 3.298,28 gross per month (based on a 38-hour workweek and excluding allowances).
- Evening, weekend, and holiday shift allowances. Depending on the schedule, it can amount up to €350.00 gross per month.
- Excellent primary and secondary employment conditions.
- An attractive pension scheme.
- 25 vacation days.
- Travel reimbursement and various Schiphol employee benefits.
- Paid training and a comprehensive onboarding program.
- Career growth opportunities within our lounges and Swissport.
- Additional benefits such as discounts on products and restaurants at Schiphol Plaza, participation in collective insurance plans, and annual employee events.
