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 current 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
Solid 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 Manager Alphington (Australia)
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