Love Variety? Lead Great Food Across Victoria!

Cater Care is looking for an experienced, hands-on Relief Chef Manager to support our diverse catering operations across Victoria.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a confident Chef Manager who enjoys variety, thrives on new challenges and can make an immediate impact wherever they're needed.

You'll travel across our aged care, health, education and youth justice sites, including our dedicated education brand, gather. From leading kitchen teams to maintaining food quality and ensuring smooth daily operations, you'll play a vital role in keeping our sites running at their best. You'll need to be adaptable, resilient and comfortable travelling regionally, including regular overnight stays away from home.

If you're a natural leader who takes pride in great food, strong teams and operational excellence, we'd love to hear from you!

What We Offer

- Competitive salary: $85,000 base plus superannuation
- Vehicle allowance: $10,000 per annum, with tolls covered
- Travel covered: Work-related accommodation and meals provided
- Permanent position: Full-time, 40 hours per week across a Monday-Sunday roster
- Variety and development: Broaden your experience across diverse catering environments

Your Role

- Lead kitchen operations across multiple sites, ensuring seamless service and quality food
- Support, motivate and manage kitchen teams to achieve their best
- Oversee menus, bulk food preparation and specialised dietary requirements
- Maintain food safety, hygiene, cleanliness and workplace safety standards
- Manage stock, ordering, food costs and kitchen resources
- Build positive relationships with clients and site stakeholders

About You





You're an experienced culinary professional with the leadership capability, initiative and adaptability to make an impact across diverse catering environments.

You'll bring

- A Commercial Cookery trade qualification and proven experience in high-volume catering
- Robust kitchen leadership skills, with the ability to inspire teams and maintain operational standards
- Expertise in food safety, bulk food preparation and specialised dietary requirements
- A proactive, resilient approach, with excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- The ability to work autonomously, solve problems and confidently manage changing operational demands

Essential Requirements

- Current Food Safety Supervisor certification
- Current driver's licence and access to your own vehicle
- Flexibility and willingness to travel throughout Victoria, including regular regional travel and overnight stays away from home
- Current Working with Children Check (WWCC), required influenza vaccination and satisfactory police checks, as applicable to individual site requirements
- Willingness to complete required Youth Justice inductions and site-specific training

About Cater Care

Cater Care is a leading, 100% Australian-owned contract catering provider, operating across aged care, education, retirement, retail, health and remote services.

Our values of Care, Pride and Community drive our commitment to our people, our clients and the communities we serve. We celebrate diversity and encourage First Nations people to consider a career with us.

Ready for Your Next Challenge?

Bring your culinary expertise, leadership skills and can-do attitude to a role where no two days are the same.

Apply now and become an integral part of Cater Care's Victorian operations!

Job Ref: 6017

📌 Relief Chef Manager | Multi-Site Leadership | Victoria (Melbourne)
🏢 Cater Care
📍 Melbourne