About the role

This is a structured, daytime production role focused on preparing house made sauces and other product lines consistently and efficiently for a central production kitchen supporting a growing group of premium takeaway pasta stores across Melbourne. There are no late nights, no weekend shifts and no unpredictable restaurant rosters.

Key responsibilities

- Batch cooking sauces and other products according to set recipes
- Planning and completing the daily production schedule
- Leading and working alongside a small production team of 1-2 people
- Ensuring every batch meets standards for taste, quality and consistency
- Following production sheets, recipes and food-safety procedures
- Monitoring stock levels and completing regular stocktakes
- Ordering, receiving, rotating and correctly storing ingredients
- Maintaining accurate production and stock records
- Keeping the production kitchen clean, organised and ready for service
- Identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, organisation and production processes

About you

- Experience in a production kitchen, catering operation, food-manufacturing environment or high-volume commercial kitchen
- Confident batch cooking and following recipes accurately
- Experience leading, supervising or guiding a small team
- Understanding of food safety, stock rotation and kitchen organisation
- Comfortable using production sheets,



completing stocktakes and handling basic computer tasks
- Takes pride in producing the same high-quality result every time
- Reliable, organised and able to work independently
- Enjoys creating structure and finding more efficient ways of working
- Communicates clearly and takes ownership of responsibilities
- Wants to grow with a business rather than remain in the same position long term

About us Pasta Prego is a fast-growing Melbourne food business built around one simple idea: producing consistently great pasta, fast. We currently operate multiple locations across Melbourne, supported by a central production kitchen that prepares the sauces and ingredients used across our stores. We are highly system-focused and care deeply about quality, consistency, organisation and creating an environment where people enjoy coming to work.

Benefits

- A flexible working schedule based around your ideal hours
- A stable role outside the traditional restaurant environment
- A supportive, close-knit and hardworking team
- Direct involvement with the owners and operations team
- Clear recipes, procedures and production systems
- The chance to help improve and shape the growing production operation

- Genuine potential to take on more responsibility as Pasta Prego expands
- A pathway toward broader production and operational leadership for the right person

📌 Production Kitchen Worker (East Brisbane)
🏢 Pasta Prego
📍 East Brisbane