Kitchen employee

Full- or part-time job as kitchen employee on a unique location, Vlieland, including board and lodging!

Are you ready for a new adventure as a cook? Do you have no plans for the upcoming time and do you want to make money? Besides that, are you hospitable, motivated, and enthusiastic? Then start working for us on the Wadden islands as a cook!

We are looking for nice people whom are willing to work hard, while having fun. Grinding in your vacation, weekend, or fulltime on Vlieland where it’s never boring!

Are you creative, a hard worker, and a king (or queen) in the kitchen? Do you know how to create the tastiest dishes or do want to help create these? Are you the type of person that gets satisfaction from happy guests and someone who sees unhappy guests as a challenge? Someone who is able to work hard, but simultaneously able to maintain a pleasant working environment? Then we are looking for you! From washing lettuce to grilling steaks and from cutting cucumber to a stunning creation on a plate, you feel at home in the kitchen and you can show your skills in there or you want to learn these skills!

Once you enter the work area you’ll be noticing the fun chaos already. You greet your colleagues in the kitchen and you wave to the busy barkeepers and waiting staff. You discuss with your chef what needs to be done still for the prearation. Are there any particulars and will we have big groups? The tasks are divided. Together with your colleagues you make sure the lunch dishes are sent to the restaurant rapidly while you make sure the preparations for the busy evening are ready. In the meantime you joke around with the dishwasher, you compliment a colleague on a nice dish, and you ask the waitress whether all guests are satisfied. Your shift flies by. After your shift you take a cold drink while overlooking the sea. Being a cook on an island isn’t so bad!

We are only looking for applicants for the end of the summer and the months after, between August and November!

Working on Vlieland

We have two hotels and one beach club on Vlieland. Our family business once started at Hotel de Wadden in the Dorpsstraat on Vlieland. Moreover, Beach hotel Seeduyn is located right at the beach and you’ll find the only beach club on Vlieland there as well: The Badhuys.Vlieland, Terschelling, and Ameland are popular tourist destinations with large white beaches and cozy villages. During summer tourists and workers make these islands very lively, whereas winters provide calmness allowing you to get to know your colleagues and enjoy the coziness of small communities where everyone knows each other. And, not to mention the islands have amazing natural environments.  

But… working for WestCord doesn’t only mean running and sweating for your work. Because, besides working hard, we also need someone who likes swimming in the sea, someone who likes meeting new people, who likes to spend off hours sunbathing or surfing on the beach, and someone who likes to end his shifts with having a few drinks with his or her colleagues or a bonfire on the beach! Because besides colleagues, we’re also a close-knit family at WestCord.


What makes you the perfect colleague?

• Hospitable, open, and spontaneous: these are your qualities!
• The hospitality industry is familiar ground to you: you have working experience in a similar function or you wish to develop yourself in this industry.
• You have a flexible attitude and no “9-to-5” mentality.
• You make every day into a new adventure together with your colleagues!
• This function is available as of now. You will be available to work in weekends, holidays or fulltime.
• A reference check can be part of the application procedure

• Growth: Working in a family business, advancing within the hotel chain of WestCord Hotels is possible.
• Training: So you can continue to develop yourself.
• Salary: We believe in providing a fitting reward for everyone's efforts. Additionally, the tips are distributed weekly, often a very nice extra pocket money!
• Lodging possibilities. As a manager, we have a studio available for you!
• 30/30 member:
• Stay for €30,- including breakfast, in all WestCord Hotels.
• 30% discount on the bill when dining (food and drinks combined).
• 30% discount on WestCord products and on Wellness in WestCord Hotels.
• Surprise Our OneTeam: A delightful surprise specially for you every month. All colleagues enjoy the Surprise Our OneTeam days, making a workday not only enjoyable but also surprising, just like for our guests.
• A net bonus of €250,- when you refer a new colleague, and they are hired!