Fitzroy Production Kitchen role reporting to CEO. You'll own standards, systems, efficiency, culture, and dispatch across Mile End's production kitchen and four Melbourne stores. You'll upgrade recipes, specs, prep lists and batch methods to support growth to twice current size, track waste and yields, train and develop kitchen and dispatch teams, ensure every store receives the right product on time and to spec, and lead monthly specials and menu improvements.

Key responsibilities

- Quality control, food safety, taste testing and consistency across all stores
- Upgrading recipes, specs, prep lists and batch methods to support growth
- Tracking waste, yields and labour to produce more for less
- Training and developing the kitchen and dispatch teams to professional standards
- Ensuring every store gets the right product, on time and to spec
- Monthly specials, menu improvements and better batch cooking techniques
- Working the bench alongside your team





About you

- Detail-obsessed and notice inconsistencies
- Experience building and improving systems that work
- Proven ability to set and maintain culture and skilled standards
- Trainer who makes the people around you better
- Open to new ways of working and continuous improvement
- No ego; willing to work alongside your team and take feedback
- Led a kitchen team before
- Production or multi-site experience is a plus
- Food Safety Supervisor certified, or willing to get certified
- Willing to work early starts and some weekends as production schedule requires

About us

Mile End is Australia's first wood-fired Montreal-style bagelry. We have four Melbourne stores, a production bakery and kitchen, and a plan to grow.

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📌 Head of Production (Kitchen) (Melbourne)
🏢 Mile End Bagels
📍 Melbourne