Meatsmith Specialty Butcher and Wine Merchant is looking for a talented and experienced Casual Chef to join our Fitzroy Production Kitchen team. This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate culinary professional to work in a high-quality butcher, food and wine-focused environment, where premium ingredients and expert craftsmanship take centre stage.

As a Casual Production Chef, you will play a key role in supporting our Production team, maintaining exceptional food quality, and deliver outstanding products that showcase our commitment to excellence. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cooking, an understanding of large scale production, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, detail-oriented setting.

If you have a love for charcuterie, condiments, and making pies and savoury pastry goods, we invite you to become part of our dedicated team. This is your chance to bring creativity, skill, and leadership to a kitchen that values tradition, innovation, and top-tier hospitality.

What you'll Bring

- Assist in Kitchen production to deliver consistent, high-quality products
- Date rotation and stock management
- Enforcing all aspects of protected food handling requirements during packing and dispatch (current food handlers certificate is a plus)




- Receiving stock from internal and external suppliers
- Maintaining high cleaning standards of the department

We Offer

- A generous staff discount across all Trader House venues
- Work in a friendly, close-knit kitchen where every team member is valued. We believe in strong teamwork and mutual support
- Work/life balance– Flexible roster. Public Holidays off. AM / PM Shifts available
- Internal and external training and career growth
- Management training & development
- A creative, focused, and energetic work environment
- Working alongside respected industry leaders
- Exposure to the best produce available
- Potential for Full-time postion

Trader House is a collective of restaurants, bars, and specialty retail stores by Melbourne-based chef, cookbook author and columnist Andrew McConnell and photographer Jo McGann. Operating in Melbourne are Gimlet, Apollo Inn, Cutler,Supernormal, Cumulus Inc., Marion, Builders Arms Hotel, Meatsmith Heritage Butcher and Morning Market. In 2024, Trader House opened Supernormal and Bar Miette in Brisbane. A new restaurant, Côte Basque, will open in Melbourne in the winter of 2026.

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📌 Casual Chef (Melbourne)
🏢 Meatsmith
📍 Melbourne