Goods Grocer - Altona, VIC
Full-time | Predominantly daytime hours | No late-night restaurant service

Goods Grocer is an independently owned supermarket with a strong focus on fresh food and high-quality, house-made products.

At the heart of our business is our production kitchen , where we produce a growing range of ready-to-eat meals, salads, sauces, soups, baked goods and other products for our supermarket.

We're looking for an experienced Chef to take ownership of our production kitchen, lead our team and work directly with the owner to develop and grow our food range.

If you're an experienced chef who loves food but is ready to move away from late-night restaurant service, this is an opportunity to lead a kitchen, create current products and work predominantly daytime hours.

Chef - Production Kitchen | Daytime Hours

Goods Grocer - Altona, VIC
Full-time | Predominantly daytime hours | No late-night restaurant service

Goods Grocer is an independently owned supermarket with a strong focus on fresh food and high-quality, house-made products.

At the heart of our business is our production kitchen , where we produce a growing range of ready-to-eat meals, salads, sauces, soups, baked goods and other products for our supermarket.

We're looking for an experienced Chef to take ownership of our production kitchen, lead our team and work directly with the owner to develop and grow our food range.

If you're an experienced chef who loves food but is ready to move away from late-night restaurant service, this is an opportunity to lead a kitchen, create new products and work predominantly daytime hours.

The Role

You’ll take responsibility for the day-to-day operation of our production kitchen while having genuine input into what we make, how we make it and how we grow the range .

You’ll work closely with the owner on new product and recipe development while ensuring the kitchen delivers outstanding quality, consistency and efficiency every day.

The role combines food,



creativity and leadership with the commercial side of running a successful production kitchen.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

- Improving existing recipes, quality and consistency
- Maintaining consistently high food-quality standards
- Managing food costs, portioning, yields and wastage
- Ordering and managing ingredients and kitchen inventory
- Ensuring recipes and production processes are followed consistently
- Maintaining excellent food-safety, hygiene and kitchen standards
- Identifying opportunities to improve kitchen productivity and efficiency
- Developing products suitable for both retail and wholesale

About You

We’re looking for someone who genuinely loves food but also understands that a great kitchen needs to be organized, consistent and commercially minded.

Ideally, you’ll have:

- 3-5+ years' experience as a Chef, Sous Chef, Production Chef or Kitchen Manager

- Excellent organisation and production-planning skills
- High standards around food quality, presentation and food safety
- The ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment
- A hands-on attitude and willingness to lead from the front
- The desire to help build and improve something rather than simply maintain it

Experience in a production kitchen, catering, ready-meal manufacturing, supermarket kitchen, large-scale restaurant or other high-volume food operation would be highly regarded, but isn’t essential.

Why Join Goods Grocer?

This is an opportunity to have real ownership over a growing food operation.

You’ll work directly with the owners, have significant input into product development and have the freedom to bring new ideas to the table.

We offer:

- Predominantly daytime hours
- No late-night restaurant service
- Competitive salary
- Full-time, stable employment
- Staff discount
- Friendly, independently owned working environment
- Opportunity to create and launch new products
- Genuine opportunity to grow with the business

If you’re an experienced chef who wants to create great food, lead a team and enjoy better working hours outside the traditional restaurant environment , we’d love to hear from you.

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📌 production kitchen Head Chef (Melbourne)
🏢 Goods Grocer
📍 Melbourne