Back of House Manager, Full Time, Wood-Fired Pizza, Arana Hills

We're looking for someone to own the kitchen.

The Wood Fired Oven is a family run wood-fired pizza business in Arana Hills. We started in 2018 with one food truck in a local park. Now there's the restaurant plus a truck running Bardon, Ashgrove and Alderley each week, and a catering arm that keeps growing.

Everything is made from scratch. Our own dough, fermented around 48 hours, Caputo flour, cooked over spotted gum and ironbark. We make our own gluten-free dough in house too, and we take cross-contamination seriously because it matters to a lot of our customers.

This is the first time we've run the BOH Manager role as a permanent full time position. That's a deliberate step for us, and it means whoever takes it gets to shape it.

What the job actually is

You run the back of house. Dough and gluten-free dough Tuesday through Friday, prep, sauces, the grill, deliveries in and checked, and the kitchen clean and organised at the end of every night.

You also lead the BOH crew. Setting the standard, training them properly, and getting the best out of a young team. Most of our casuals are school and uni age, and a good chunk of what makes this business work is turning them into capable people. That's the part of the job we care most about.

You'll work directly with Chris and Lorelle, the owners. Not through three layers of management. If you spot something that's broken, you say so and we fix it.

Who we're after

You've worked in a fast kitchen. Pizza would be ideal, but anything high volume and hands-on translates.

Management experience is what we're after,



though we're realistic about it. If you've run a section, led a shift, or trained people and want to step up properly, we'd rather back someone with the right attitude and grow them than hire someone with a bigger title and the wrong approach.

What isn't negotiable:

You lead from the front. On a Friday night you're on a station, not watching from the pass

You care about consistency. A pizza on a quiet Tuesday should be the same as one at 6:30pm Saturday

You're calm when it's flat out

You're good with young staff. Patient, transparent, and you actually want to teach

Dough experience is a big plus. If you haven't made it from scratch before, we'll teach you, but you'll need to want to learn it properly.

The details

Full time, 38 hours a week, Tuesday to Saturday. Permanent position with a standard probation period. A typical week looks like this.
Tuesday 8.30-1.30pm then 3.45-8.15pm
Wednesday & Thursday 12-00-2.45pm then 3.45p-8.15pm

Friday 12-00-2.45pm then 3.45-8.45/9.00pm
Saturday 3.30-8.45/9.00pm
However for this role some adjustment to these hours will be discussed.

Based at the Arana Hills restaurant.

Food handling certificate required. If you don't have a current one it's done online in about an hour before you start.

The honest bit

We're a small business. Some weeks are messy, the systems aren't perfect, and you'll be asked to help fix them rather than just work around them. If you want a polished corporate kitchen with everything already sorted, this isn't it.

If you want a job where your opinion actually changes how things get done, it is.

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📌 BOH Manager (Queensland)
🏢 The Wood Fired Oven
📍 Queensland