About the role

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

- Genuine people-leadership experience. Recruiting, training, rostering, managing performance

- Solid understanding of food safety and compliance

- Recipe development experience

- 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

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