Kitchen Assistant

This role keeps the heart of our workplace humming!

By ensuring our kitchens and café are spotless, well‑stocked and food‑safe, you will help create a welcoming space where our people can recharge and connect. Working alongside our Chef and Facilities team, you’ll make sure coffee machines are ready to go, catering runs smoothly for meetings and events, and supplies are always on hand and available for staff purchases.

Your organisation, energy and eye for detail help keep everyone fuelled, focused and feeling their best and making a real difference to daily life at Douglas.

What you’ll do

• Maintain three DPL kitchens to a spotless, well‑stocked and food‑safe standard – cleaning surfaces, cupboards and fridges, running and unpacking commercial size dishwashers, and replenishing tea, coffee, sugar and milk
• Making sure that the café (located in the main cafeteria) is stocked with snacks and food for staff purchasing
• Take charge of our coffee machines – setting them up each morning, keeping them clean throughout the day, and closing them down at day’s end
• Assist with food preparation and baking, ensuring all tasks meet Auckland Council Food Safety Licence requirements
• Manage food storage and rotation, including labelling, dating and proper segregation
• Receive, unpack and organise food deliveries; order essentials (e.g. milk) and collect groceries off‑site when required
• Provide hands‑on support for catering at internal events and functions, including Board and Executive meetings
• Assist the Chef with ad‑hoc tasks, helping deliver high‑quality service to the business

What you’ll bring

About Us

At Douglas, we’re more than just a company – we are a community of people driven to make a difference. We’re proud to be one of New Zealand’s biggest pharmaceutical success stories, and we’re growing globally. Privately owned and future‑focused, our team of 700 includes scientists, engineers, and all kinds of experts, working together to create high‑quality healthcare products that help people around the world.

Come join us on this mission to improve lives!

Next Steps

If you’re invited to complete a video interview as the next stage of your application, we’d love you to embrace it. Video interviews allow more people the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities to the hiring manager in a new and innovative way, giving you a better chance of securing your ideal role. Relax, be yourself and don’t worry, we all feel a bit awkward in front of the camera.

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