Moonlit Sanctuary Wildlife Conservation Park – Pearcedale VIC
Enjoy working in a busy café kitchen? Bring your cooking experience to the Wetlands Café at Moonlit Sanctuary. As an award-winning tourist destination, Moonlit Sanctuary is looking for an experienced Trade Cook to join our kitchen operations team over the busy Summer period.
As our Trade Cook, you will help create a positive visitor experience by preparing and cooking a variety of simple and delicious dishes to high standards of food quality and presentation.
Key responsibilities
- Prepare and cook menu items to agreed recipes and presentation standards.
- Complete food preparation and set up the kitchen for service.
- Support timely meal service by coordinating with kitchen and front-of-house colleagues.
- Maintain a clean and organised work area, including cleaning equipment and utensils.
- Follow workplace food safety, hygiene and safe food-handling procedures.
- Monitor ingredient supplies, rotate stock and flag replenishment needs.
- Help minimise food waste through careful preparation and portion control.
What you bring
- Your experience could come from a café, kitchen, food service or catering role. Qualifications in Commercial Cookery or equivalent qualification is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of food hygiene and safety practices essential.
- Excellent skills in communication, teamwork, organisation and time management.
- Ability to take direction from the Food Service Supervisor and show initiative.
- Flexibility to work on weekdays, weekends and public holidays.
What we can offer you
- Generous employee discounts including all Moonlit Sanctuary services and products.
- Free on-site car parking and uniform provided.
- On the job training and development.
- Above Award wages and penalty rates.
- Adaptable rosters around lifestyle and study commitments.
- Access to an employee Wellbeing, Safety and Support program.
Applications for this position will close at midnight, 22 November 2026.
Moonlit Sanctuary Wildlife Conversation Park is committed to providing a working environment that is purpose-driven, collaborative and positive. We offer flexible work arrangements to support employees with work-life balance, access to an Employee Wellbeing, Safety and Support Program, learning and development opportunities and generous discounts on products and services.
Moonlit Sanctuary Wildlife Conversation Park is committed to building a diverse workforce and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and racially marginalised and refugee backgrounds, people of all ages, neurodiverse people, gender diverse people and LGBTIQA+ people. We welcome applications from people with a diversity of backgrounds and experiences.