Chef
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Hospitality · Bendigo, VIC, Australia · Full-Time · $75,000 - $85,000/yr · Visa: Employer sponsored
Ready to swap city traffic for a country pub kitchen? A hotel venue in regional northern Victoria, near Bendigo, is looking for a qualified chef who wants to take the next career step, broaden their experience and join a strong team.
Reporting straight to the Venue Manager, you would lead each culinary team, shaping menus, controlling food standards, costings and labour, and helping to recruit, induct and train kitchen staff against agreed KPIs. Progressive ideas across a range of cuisines are welcome, and volume kitchen or functions experience is an advantage. Sponsorship is available.
Put your Cert III or Cert IV, the venue sizes you have run and your costing and menu work on your CV, then serve up a regional hotel head of kitchen CV on Build AI CV.
Key Responsibilities
- Create and refine menus
- Set food standards and oversee production
- Cost dishes and manage labour and its costs
- Meet executive management's standards and the agreed kitchen KPIs
- Support the hiring of kitchen staff, then induct and train them
- Keep hygiene, cleanliness and safety tight
- Keep managers and staff informed
- Head up each culinary team
Requirements & Eligibility
- Minimum 2 years of experience in a similar high-volume venue
- Cert III or Cert IV in Cookery
- Highly professional, with energy and enthusiasm
- In-depth knowledge of how a kitchen runs, especially food quality and presentation
- Good with numbers when it comes to kitchen costs
- Outstanding communication, both written and spoken
- A strong leader able to run a multi-faceted kitchen
- Leads from the front, coaching and motivating the team
- A proven problem-solver
- Builds a team spirit that reaches across the whole venue
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