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Gwynant Ltd | £20 per hour | Permanent – see section 5 below | Staff accommodation available

Llyn Gwynant campsite lies on the shores of Llyn Gwynant in Eryri, Snowdonia. Guests come here to camp, explore the mountains, enjoy the lake and take part in water-based activities.

Our Cegin catering outlet on the campsite serves campers and sometimes wedding guests from Llyn Gwynnt Barns, throughout the season.

Between March and October, we prepare approximately 20,000 pizzas and 8,000 breakfasts, which requires excellent organisation, clear communication and the ability to stay calm and effective when things get busy.

And there’s plenty happening behind the scenes on the campsite too. Established in 2025, Y Bragdy (The Brewery) produces around 24,000 pints of beer on the campsite each season which is sold at the Cegin bar as well as the Bragdy taproom in the woods.

In 2027 our own farm may allow a similarly ambitious in-house food operation. We are embarking on an exciting new chapter having just obtained a nearby preparation kitchen which is suited to help us produce 10,000 gourmet burgers using our wholesome, locally sourced ingredients.

This position of Catering & Food Operations Manager offers an exciting opportunity to help develop and lead this busy catering operation. We want someone who can inspire a team and shape the next chapter of our business with a strong focus on high quality food offerings.

1.     The role

You’ll take responsibility for the day-to-day catering operation across our business including including our:

• Pizza outlet

• Gourmet burger outlet

• Breakfast operation

• Remote preparation kitchen

This is a hands-on management role. You’ll work with a catering team during busy periods, making sure food is produced consistently to a high standard and that our guests receive the excellent experience we want Gwynant to become known for.

We want you to have an important role in developing food from what we produce over the coming seasons.

. Plans include using lamb and beef from our own farm, increasing the amount of food prepared in-house and making better use of our new remote prep kitchen.

So this isn’t simply a role where you’ll inherit an established operation and keep it ticking over. We want you to be creative, to help develop the operation and make it your own.

2.     What you’ll be responsible for

You’ll lead the catering team and be responsible for maintaining high standards including:

• Producing consistently good food and thus an excellent customer experience

• Managing food service during busy periods and keeping waiting times under control

• Leading, training and developing our catering staff

• Maintaining excellent food hygiene, allergen management and food safety standards

• Managing stock, deliveries, labelling and stock rotation

• Monitoring food costs, margins and wastage

• Completing regular stocktakes and product costings

• Working with suppliers to obtain good quality products at competitive prices

• Keeping the catering outlets and preparation kitchen clean, organised and customer-ready

• Working with the Gwynant management team to ensure our policies and procedures are followed

• Helping develop our new food offerings, making good use of produce from our own farm

• Supporting the wider Gwynant team when required

You’ll report to senior managers at Gwynant Ltd, the General Manager, Operations Manager and Site Manager. You will work closely with our suppliers, our farm manager and the wider management team.

3.     Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for someone who knows how to run a food operation and lead people.

You could be an experienced Catering Manager, Head Chef, Kitchen Manager or food-service professional. Your previous experience might be in a restaurant, school, visitor attraction, museum, workplace catering, the military or another busy hospitality environment.

You don’t need to have worked in a campsite before.

We are interested in someone who:

• Has solid experience in catering or food service

• Is confident leading and developing a team

• Understands food costs, margins and stock control

• Takes food hygiene and allergen management seriously

• Can maintain standards when things get very busy

• Is organised and commercially aware

• Is happy being hands-on rather than managing from an office

• Has the energy and initiative to improve things

• Takes pride in creating a great experience for customers

• Enjoys working as part of a small, energetic team

• Likes the outdoors and genuinely wants to live and work in a beautiful rural environment

Most importantly, we’re looking for someone who will take ownership of the operation and develop excellence. We want someone who sees something that could work better and thinks, “I can improve that.”

4.     Why Gwynant?

This is a chance to become an important part of a small management team in a business you can help develop and grow.  Our site is in the most beautiful valley in Wales.

We have a strong sense of place and wish to develop an excellent food operation that is wholesome, local and circular, making good use of our own farm products. 

As with our bragdy/brewery we wish to produce real food ourselves, reduce food travel miles and work closely with the other parts of our business.

There is genuine scope here for ideas, innovation and personal responsibility.

5.     Pay, hours and accommodation

£20 per hour

The main season is from the beginning of March until the end of October, when the team typically works around 41 hours per week over five days, depending on business demands. Working hours may vary from week to week, with busier periods requiring greater flexibility to meet the needs of the business. On occasion split shifts may be required.

Although this is primarily a seasonal role, we can offer an annualised-hours arrangement to allow earnings to be spread across the year, providing an income during the winter rather than receiving all your earnings during the main season.  For the right person there may also be opportunities for work during the winter, depending on your other skills and interests and the needs of the business.

Accommodation may be made available for the right candidate, within walking distance of the site.

6.     A hands-on team

Gwynant is a small business and we all pitch in when necessary.  As a member of the management team there may be occasions when you’ll help elsewhere on site — for example in reception, the shop or housekeeping — particularly when the business is exceptionally busy. 

We are looking for someone who enjoys that variety and understands that running a successful outdoor hospitality business is a team effort.

7.     What will make you successful here?

We’d like you to finish your first season having:

• Built a confident and capable catering team

• Maintained excellent food safety and customer standards

• Improved consistency across our catering outlets

• Got a strong grip on food costs, stock and margins

• Helped establish and develop our new prep kitchen

• Started moving our food offer towards more in-house and farm-sourced production

• And, most importantly, having helped make sure our guests leave Gwynant having had a fantastic experience

8.     Interested?

If the idea of running a food operation beside a mountain and lake in a beautiful part of Wales,, working with a great team and helping us build something a little different sounds like your kind of job, we’d love to hear from you.

To apply, please email your CV and a brief covering letter to our Operations Manager, Simon, at simonc@gwynant.com, explaining why you’d be a great fit for the role and what interests you about joining the Gwynant catering team.

Alternatively, if you’d like an informal conversation about the role, the business or what it’s like to work at Gwynant, please get in touch using the email address above.