Head Chef / Production Manager

Head Chef / Production Manager

The Sweet Potato Kitchen | Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Posted 5 days ago

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Description

We're a growing organic, gut-friendly ready-made meals business moving into a bigger production space and building out our kitchen team from the ground up. We're after someone who can take real ownership of the kitchen: running production, building and leading a team, developing our recipes, and helping shape how this business operates as it grows.


Key responsibilities


Own day-to-day and weekly production planning to meet demand, and manage prep, cook, packaging with consistency and precision


Recruit, train and roster a new kitchen team, and lead them day to day


Lead recipe development with new delicious and exciting dishes, seasonal menus, and refining what we already make


Maintain and build on our existing food safety program (records, training, audits)


Manage stock, ordering and supplier relationships


Food costing and margins


Help plan and set up the new Clifton Hill space (equipment, workflow, systems) before and during the move


About you


Real experience running a high-volume or production kitchen


Confidence building systems and processes


Strong understanding of food safety and compliance


Strong command of costings, margins and ordering


A genuine belief that food is medicine. You understand food provenance, nutrition and seasonality, and can build a menu where people can feel and taste the love around that


Enjoy the challenge of cooking to meet different allergy and food sensitivity requirements, not daunted by it


Passionate about being part of a business at this growth stage and helping take it to the next level


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