Catering Attendant

**Want to elevate your career to a Higher Altitude?**

**Come join the exciting world of Airline Catering with the Worlds Best**

**At dnata catering & retail, the sky's truly the limit**

AVIATION SUPPORT BUSINESS OF THE YEAR 2025
AUSTRALASIA's AIRLINE CATERER OF THE YEAR 2025

**So, what does a typical day look like?**

As a Catering Attendant, you’re an integral member of our team, working across a range of areas to prepare all elements required to deliver a memorable dining experience for passengers onboard our airline customers flights. To do this, you perform a variety of roles across our kitchen, specifically in our Production area.

**In a nutshell, your main responsibilities are**:

- Food handling and light meal prep, plating meals, and meal tray set, ensuring presentation specifications are met using our visual guides.
- Assisting Chefs with bulk ingredients and bulk cooking of various menus
- Packaging meals in portion controlled sizes, and preparing to load into ovens and carts for delivery or in refrigerated holding areas.
- Ensuring a clean work bench and keeping your area neat and tidy at all times.
- Wearing proper PPE gear including apron, hairnets, gloves and facial masks.
- Stocking airline carts with dry store items including equipment (cutlery, crockery glassware), packaged snacks, and beverages.
- Compliance with Food Safety and HACCP guidelines, and adherence to hygiene standards and cleaning schedules.
- Communicate and coordinate with team members to ensure delivery timelines.
- Removing all perishable items from the kiosk and counted, ensuring products are in date and within temperature range
- Replenishment and recording of top up stock items and final dispatch
- Ensure all paperwork and data entry is completed in accordance with our customers.
- Ensure all catering equipment is clean and presentable ready for dispatch
- Gather information from airline systems to enable the completion of daily tasks
- Ability to work as instructed following both verbal and written work instructions
- Perform such tasks in accordance with Company or Airline specifications, to comply with hygiene, quality, safety, performance and customer service standards
- Ensure adherence to Galley Loading Plan (GLP), Cart Packing Plan (CPP) and Equipment Loading Plan (ELP) as applicable to the role

**What do you need to be successful in securing this role?**
- Sound numerical skills, can count accurately
- Good verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Ability to stand for prolonged periods of time, as well as move and lift items.
- Ability to work shift work across a 7-day rotating roster.
- Neat and tidy presentation (uniformed).
- Sound knowledge of Food Hygiene and HACCP (desired but not essential).
- Basic knife skills (desired but not essential).
- As you will be working in the Aviation Services industry, you will be required to obtain a clear National Police Check.
- Availability to work 38 hours/week, as this role is a full-time permanent position.

**What’s in it for you?**
- Be part of a close knit & dedicated team that is committed to safety.
- Competitive pay rates and generous hourly penalties.
- Free onsite parking, daily staff meals, and uniforms.
- 5 weeks Annual Leave.
- Monthly cultural and community celebrations, involving charities and events.
- Career development and progression, coupled with national relocation opportunities.
- Discounts at hundreds of national retailers (such as Woolworths, Caltex and JB-HiFi), discounted health insurance and wellbeing resources.

**About Us**:
We are Australia’s largest and most admired inflight catering and retail partner. Specialising in inflight catering, retail and food manufacturing, our group of diverse brands enables us to deliver extensive service capabilities.

Chosen by many of the world’s top airlines, we operate 16 facilities across 12 cities and employ over 4,000 people who help us to produce over 64 million meals, and service more than 250,000 flights, each year.

Parent company dnata - part of the Emirates Group - is one of the world’s largest air services providers. Offering ground handling, cargo, travel, and inflight catering and retail services, dnata ensures the aviation industry operates smoothly and efficiently.

**Does this role sound perfect for you? If so, we want to hear from you.**

as a Catering Attendant.