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Kitchen porter CV example

A kitchen porter CV is short and practical: how busy your kitchen is, the cleaning and prep you do, how you handle deliveries and the storeroom, your food hygiene level and when you can work. If you want to become a chef, say so; many kitchens train porters up.

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Jordan Mills
Kitchen Porter

Profile

Kitchen porter with two years in a busy gastropub kitchen serving up to 150 covers on a Saturday. Keeps the pot wash and plate wash moving through service, helps the chefs with vegetable prep and keeps the kitchen to its cleaning schedule. Level 2 Food Hygiene. Looking for a kitchen porter or trainee commis chef role.

Experience

Kitchen Porter The Wheatsheaf, Bath · 2024–present

Run the pot wash and dishwasher through services of up to 150 covers, so chefs never wait for clean pans.

Peel, wash and prepare vegetables for the chefs each morning, using the mandoline and veg prep machine safely.

Check and put away deliveries, rotate stock in the walk-in fridge and keep the dry store organised.

Deep clean the kitchen to the weekly schedule and sign the cleaning records.

Customer Assistant (part time) Avon Valley Garden Centre, Bath · 2023–2024

Served customers and kept the café clean between orders.

Training

Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety for Catering 2024

COSHH awareness 2025

GCSEs including English and Maths 2023

Additional information

Available evenings, weekends and bank holidays. Would like to train as a commis chef.

Fictional example for a kitchen porter. Every person and employer in it is invented. Replace every detail with your own.

What kitchens look for, and where this CV shows it

The job asks you toWhere this CV shows it
Provide support to chefsKeeping clean pans moving through 150-cover services
Wash, peel and prepare food itemsMorning vegetable prep for the chefs
Use a variety of kitchen equipment such as mixers, special knives and cuttersMandoline and veg prep machine
Unload deliveriesChecking and putting away deliveries
Organise the storeroomRotating stock in the walk-in fridge and dry store
Wash kitchen appliances, work surfaces, floors and wallsWeekly deep clean and cleaning records

The left column follows the National Careers Service job profile for a kitchen porter, also called a kitchen assistant.

Inside this example
  • Profile: 56 words here
  • Experience: 102 words here
  • Training: 21 words here
  • Skills: 23 words here
  • Additional information: 14 words here

How to write yours

01

Say how busy it gets

Covers on a busy night tell a head chef you can keep up.

02

Prep counts

Any food prep you do is the first step to a chef's job; list it.

03

Show you can be trusted

Deliveries, stock and signed cleaning records show you work without being watched.

04

First kitchen job?

Any job where you worked fast and kept things clean counts; give your availability and start date.

Checks for a kitchen porter CV

  • Food hygiene. Give the level and year if you have it; many kitchens will put you through it if you do not.
  • Chemicals. If you have COSHH or chemical safety training, list it; you will use cleaning chemicals every shift.
  • Availability. Evenings, weekends and bank holidays decide kitchen rotas; say when you can work.

One page is plenty. Keep the busiest service and the prep you do near the top.

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