Job Description

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.

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Key responsibilities

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Own day-to-day and weekly production planning to meet demand, and manage prep, cook, packaging with consistency and precision

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Recruit, train and roster a new kitchen team, and lead them day to day

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Lead recipe development with current delicious and exciting dishes, seasonal menus, and refining what we already make

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Maintain and build on our existing food safety program (records, training, audits)

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Manage stock, ordering and supplier relationships

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Food costing and margins

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Help plan and set up the new Clifton Hill space (equipment, workflow, systems) before and during the move

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About you

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Real experience running a high-volume or production kitchen

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Confidence building systems and processes

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Strong understanding of food safety and compliance

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Strong command of costings, margins and ordering

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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

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Enjoy the challenge of cooking to meet different allergy and food sensitivity requirements, not daunted by it

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Passionate about being part of a business at this growth stage and helping take it to the next level

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