At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a kitchen team, develop exciting recipes, and manage production for a growing meal business.
- Company: Dynamic organic meal company focused on gut-friendly nutrition.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, creative freedom, and opportunity to shape a growing business.
- Other info: Be part of an exciting growth journey with plenty of opportunities for innovation.
- Why this job: Join us in revolutionising healthy meals and make a real impact on people's lives.
- Qualifications: Experience in high-volume kitchens, strong leadership, and a passion for food as medicine.
The predicted salary is between 18 - 22 $ per hour.
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.
Head Chef & Production Lead in Melbourne employer: The Sweet Potato Kitchen
Join our vibrant team at a pioneering organic meal business in Clifton Hill, where you'll have the unique opportunity to shape our kitchen from the ground up. We offer a supportive work culture that values creativity and innovation, alongside opportunities for professional growth as we expand. With a focus on health and nutrition, you'll be part of a mission-driven company that believes in the power of food as medicine, making this an exciting and rewarding place to work.
