Kitchen Porter

Barbary Coast West

Full TimePermanentNot specifiedHospitality

Posted 15 March 2026Closes 22 March 2026

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🤖 Enhance with AI

›Use mobile apps for cleaning rota tracking
›Automate inventory checks with barcode scanners
›Log maintenance issues digitally for quick reporting

📈 Disruption outlook

1 yr

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70% High riskAI 40%

AI Exposure (AIOE)40%

Food Preparation Workers

O*NET 35-2021.00

Top Skills

Cleaning Attention to Detail Time Management

⭐ Growing🇬🇧 Visa eligible↑ 0% Claude Index

Job Description

Daily cleaning duties in a busy kitchen, putting away deliveries and checking stock quality. maintaining a clean kitchen completing cleaning rotas on a daily and weekly basis. Hours will include evenings, weekends & bank holidays. For more details and to apply contact davidw@barbarycoast.im or 01624604833.

Automation Risk

Automation probability70%

AI exposure (AIOE)40%

This role is highly exposed to automation due to the large proportion of routine, physical, and codifiable tasks such as cleaning, dishwashing, and stock handling. However, some tasks require human flexibility, physical presence, and teamwork, which lowers the overall AI exposure score. AI tools can augment record-keeping and inventory, but full automation is limited by the need for real-world judgment and physical activity.

Task analysis

Clean and sanitize kitchen work areas, equipment, utensils, and dishes according to daily and weekly rotas.
Put away deliveries and check stock quality upon arrival.
Carry food supplies, equipment, and utensils to and from storage and work areas.
Remove trash and clean kitchen garbage containers.
Maintain cleaning records and complete cleaning rotas.
Assist cooks and kitchen staff with various food preparation tasks as needed.
Work evenings, weekends, and bank holidays as required.
Inform supervisors when equipment is not working properly or when supplies are low.

Automatable AI-assisted Human-only

Occupational Classification

✨ Bright Outlook🇬🇧 UK Skilled Worker Visa Eligible

UK SOC2020: 9272 — Kitchen and Catering Assistants

O*NET: 35-2021.00 — Food Preparation Workers

AI analysis: 16 March 2026

UK Salary Benchmark

Food and beverage service activities · ONS ASHE 2024 annual earnings

scale £20k

UK sector median

£15,733

UK sector mean

£19,455

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