Catering Manager

Location: Multi-site role, primarily based at RAF Lossiemouth (occasional travel to Grantown-on-Spey) Contract: Fulltime, Permanent, 40 hours per weekSalary: £40,000 - £42,000
We're recruiting an experienced Catering Manager to lead a high volume, multi-site catering operation within a structured Government Services environment. This is a senior role, based at RAF Lossiemouth, where operational excellence, food quality and compliance are essential.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, motivate and develop catering teams across sites
- Oversee daily catering operations, functions, and events
- Manage recruitment, rotas, training, and retention
- Ensure full compliance with food safety, hygiene, and H&S standards
- Lead catering assurance inspections and audits
- Manage budgets, food costs, stock control, and waste reduction
- Build strong, professional relationships with client representatives, Lead, motivate and develop catering teams across sites
- Oversee daily catering operations, functions, and events
- Manage recruitment, rotas, training, and retention
- Ensure full compliance with food safety, hygiene, and H&S standards
- Lead catering assurance inspections and audits
- Manage budgets, food costs, stock control, and waste reduction
- Build strong, professional relationships with client representatives

Proven experience managing high volume catering operations (multi-site preferable)
- Strong leadership and people management skills
- Excellent knowledge of food safety and compliance
- Commercially aware with experience managing costs and budgets
- Comfortable working in a structured or regulated environment
- Intermediate or Advanced Food Hygiene Certificate preferred

Aramark (NYSE: ARMK) is in the customer service business across food, facilities and uniforms, wherever people work, learn, recover, and play. United by a passion to serve, our more than 247,000 team members deliver experiences that enrich and nourish the lives of millions of people in 19 countries around the world every day.
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Generous annual leave that increases in line with service, with the opportunity to buy extra
- Life assurance and pension scheme
- Benefits app: access to 100s of discounts, free mortgage advice, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, online GP appointments, and our Employee Assistance Programme
- FOOD! Opportunities to attend in-house events and try the culinary genius of our teams (we are a food business after all!) (depends on the role)
- Longterm career progression., Generous annual leave that increases in line with service, with the opportunity to buy extra
- Life assurance and pension scheme
- Benefits app: access to 100s of discounts, free mortgage advice, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, online GP appointments, and our Employee Assistance Programme
- FOOD! Opportunities to attend in-house events and try the culinary genius of our teams (we are a food business after all!) (depends on the role)
- Longterm career progression.
If you are applying for this role and you already work for Aramark, you must notify your line manager before submitting your application.