Job Description

This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth.

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Kitchen Manager / Head Chef 5 days per week | 4:30am–12:30pm | Casual to start | $45 weekday / $55 weekend Opportunity to move to a permanent salaried position | Salary based on experience

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This isn't your typical kitchen. We're a family-owned Northern Rivers food and convenience business, with a growing fresh food offer that is an important part of what we do. Our kitchen produces a fresh hot and cold food range every day, with a set menu designed around quality, consistency, speed and volume. This is a food retail operation rather than a traditional restaurant kitchen — there is no made-to-order service. We're looking for an experienced Kitchen Manager / Head Chef to take ownership of the day-to-day kitchen operation, lead the team and ensure our food offer is consistently produced to a high standard.

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What you'll be responsible for

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- Leading the kitchen and coordinating the daily production
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- Preparing and overseeing our fresh hot and cold food range
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- Ensuring food is consistently produced to a high standard
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- Managing food safety, hygiene and compliance
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- Ordering stock and managing inventory
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- Monitoring food usage, waste and stock levels
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- Ensuring recipes, portion sizes and presentation are consistent
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- Planning daily production around expected sales and demand
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- Training, supporting and guiding kitchen team members
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- Keeping the kitchen organised, clean and running efficiently
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- Identifying opportunities to improve the food offer and kitchen operation
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- Working hands-on with the team — this is a role for someone who likes to be on the floor, not sitting in an office
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What we're looking for

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We're interested in chefs who have real commercial kitchen experience and are ready to take ownership. You might currently be a:

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- Head Chef
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- Sous Chef
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- Kitchen Manager
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- Chef with experience running a small kitchen or food operation
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- Experienced chef who enjoys the operational side of food production
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You will need to be confident with food safety, ordering, stock control, production planning and leading a team.

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What matters is that you're organised, efficient, understand food quality and safety, and can take responsibility for making sure the kitchen gets the job done properly every day.

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The food is prepared fresh for our customers to grab and go throughout the day. It's a fast-moving retail environment, so consistency, efficiency and production planning are just as important as cooking ability.

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About The Station Grocer

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We're a family-owned Northern Rivers business with multiple stores across the region. Our stores combine fuel, convenience, fresh food, coffee and grab-and-go — and our food offer is an significant part of the customer experience. If you're a chef who enjoys leading people, producing good food, keeping things organised and having genuine ownership of a kitchen, we'd love to hear from you.

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Pay

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Pay: $45.00 – $55.00 per hour

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Expected hours

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Expected hours: 40.0 per week

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Benefits

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- Employee discount
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Application Question(s)

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This role starts at 4:30am and works 5 days per week across Monday–Sunday.

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Are you able to consistently work these hours and days?

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Why does this role appeal to you?

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Requirements

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- Experience: commercial kitchen: 1 year (Preferred)
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- ordering stock, managing inventory: 1 year (Preferred)
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- Licence/Certification: Food Safety Certificate (Preferred)
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- Work Authorisation: Australia (Preferred)
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- Location: Northern Rivers NSW (Preferred)
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- Work Location: In person
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📌 Kitchen Manager/Head Chef at The Station Grocer (Dunbible)
🏢 The Station Grocer
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