Job Description
Sydney CBD | Full-time | Monday-Friday | Day & PM Opportunities
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If You Love Making Kitchens Run Better, We Should Talk.
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Sydney CBD | Full-time | Monday-Friday | Day & PM Opportunities
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If You Love Making Kitchens Run Better, We Should Talk.
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Some chefs love creating the next dish.
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Some love the adrenaline of service.
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And some discover that what they really love is running the kitchen better.
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Getting the team working together.
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Holding the standard.
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Finding the bottleneck.
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Reducing wasted labour.
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Training someone until they become excellent.
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Improving a process so it works every single day.
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Looking At Yesterday's Operation And Asking
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How do we make this 1% better tomorrow?
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If that sounds like you, Feedwell may be a very different kind of career opportunity.
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We're hiring two kitchen leaders as we continue to grow one of Sydney's highest-volume corporate catering operations.
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One will lead our Catering & Events kitchen.
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The other will lead our PM Kitchen Operations team.
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The work is different.
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The mindset we're looking for is the same.
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Why Feedwell?
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Feedwell has become one of Sydney's fastest-growing corporate caterers, trusted by teams at Google, Amazon, TikTok, Louis Vuitton, Salesforce and hundreds of other premium clients.
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We're proud of our food.
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But great food alone didn't build this business.
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Operational excellence did.
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We have built a highly structured, high-volume kitchen around systems, standards, technology, disciplined labour management and teams that know how to execute.
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And we are constantly sharpening it.
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That's why we're looking for kitchen leaders who don't just want to work inside a good operation.
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They want to learn how it works, lead it exceptionally well, and then help make it even better.
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Two Opportunities
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Catering & Events Chef
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This is a hands-on kitchen leadership role running our daytime catering operation while helping us build our expanding hot-food and events capability.
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You'll lead the daily kitchen, own quality, labour, production and team performance, and work closely with our Operations Manager and Product Development Manager.
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As The Events Side Develops, You'll Help
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test and implement new hot-food products;
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turn recipes into reliable production systems;
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improve how food is prepared, packed, transported and served;
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train and grow the team;
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and help build the operating systems around an expanding events business.
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This will particularly suit a chef who enjoys both running an operation and helping build the next version of it.
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Kitchen Operations Manager - PM Team
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This role is much less about menu development.
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It is about operational leadership.
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You'll lead an established PM production and assembly operation and take accountability for:
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team performance;
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labour productivity;
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food quality;
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accuracy;
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workflow;
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food safety;
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timing;
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and consistent execution every day.
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Then you'll help us make it better.
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That Might Mean
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removing wasted labour;
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reducing product waste;
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improving workflow;
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strengthening training;
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increasing team capability;
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improving communication;
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simplifying a process;
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lifting product consistency;
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or finding a better way to achieve the same result.
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If the idea of taking an already strong operation and continuously sharpening it sounds satisfying rather than boring, this may be your role.
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What Both Roles Have in Common
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We are looking for people who want real responsibility.
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You'll Be Expected To
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Lead People
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Set clear expectations, coach people, hold standards, develop capability and create a team that performs without drama or heroics.
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Run the Operation
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Understand the work, organise it properly, stay close enough to see problems early and make sure quality, timing and labour targets are achieved.
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Improve It
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We believe operational excellence is never finished.
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You'll be encouraged to look for better ways to improve:
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labour;
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waste;
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workflow;
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productivity;
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training;
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team satisfaction;
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food quality;
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consistency;
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shelf life;
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systems;
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and communication.
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Not by changing things for the sake of changing them.
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By learning the operation first, understanding the problem and then helping us make sensible improvements that stick.
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Who We're Looking For
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Your current title matters less to us than your trajectory.
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You Might Currently Be a
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Senior Chef de Partie;
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Junior Sous Chef;
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Sous Chef;
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Senior Sous Chef;
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Catering or Events Chef;
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Kitchen Supervisor;
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Kitchen Manager;
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Production Chef;
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or hands-on Head Chef.
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What matters is that you've already started moving beyond simply being a good chef.
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You've begun leading people.
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You Care About How The Whole Kitchen Performs.
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You notice waste and inefficiency.
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You like teaching people.
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You hold standards.
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You're interested in labour, systems, process and the commercial side of food.
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And you still have hunger to get considerably better at all of it.
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You don't need to arrive as the finished article.
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In fact, we'd rather find someone with strong fundamentals, an achiever pattern and plenty of runway than someone who believes they've already mastered everything.
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The Career Opportunity
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This isn't about escaping hospitality.
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And It Isn't About Giving Up Being a Chef.
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It's an opportunity to add another discipline to your craft:
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Kitchen operations leadership.
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You'll work inside a business that has become successful by being unusually good at operational execution.
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You'll get real responsibility, clear standards, direct feedback, coaching and the opportunity to grow as the business grows.
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We believe our kitchen leaders are developed through opportunity, coaching and accountability -- not just hired through experience.
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And because we're growing, the operation you inherit today won't be the operation you're leading several years from now.
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And Yes, The Working Week Is Different
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Both roles are full time, Monday to Friday.
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No split shifts.
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No routine weekend restaurant grind.
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But don't mistake sustainable hours for low ambition.
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We work hard while we're here.
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We measure performance.
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We hold standards.
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We want leaders who enjoy responsibility and want to keep getting better.
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The difference is that we don't believe becoming an exceptional kitchen leader should require sacrificing the rest of your life indefinitely.
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Interested?
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If you've reached the point in your career where you're thinking:
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"I know I'm a good chef. Now I want to become really good at running kitchens and leading people."
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We'd like to hear from you.
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Apply And Tell Us Which Opportunity Interests You Most
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Catering & Events Chef
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or
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Kitchen Operations Manager - PM
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If you're not sure, that's fine too. We'll work that out together.
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Once you apply, we'll send you a short online questionnaire by email and text. It only takes a few minutes and is required for us to consider your application.

📌 Chef De Partie: Lead Prep, Path To Sous Chef (New South Wales)
🏢 FEEDWELL
📍 New South Wales