Chef - Casual

Hill Street Grocer; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A popular grocery store in Cambridge is seeking a Casual Chef to join their team. The role involves preparing high-quality meals and ensuring food safety in a commercial kitchen environment. Candidates should have formal cookery qualifications or experience in food preparation, strong technical cooking skills, and a commitment to cleanliness. The position offers a pay rate of $26–$29 per hour, with expectations for ongoing weekday availability.

Responsibilities

• Prepare high-quality products for customers.
• Work in a cool manufacturing environment with raw food products.
• Ensure cleanliness and adherence to safety standards.

Skills

Formal cookery qualifications or equivalent industry experience

Proven experience in food preparation and production

Strong technical cooking skills

Attention to detail in presentation and portioning

Good communication skills

Energy and initiative

Commitment to cleanliness and food safety

Physical fitness and stamina

Willingness to handle raw ingredients

Ongoing weekday availability

Job description

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We are seeking an experienced Chef to join our commercial kitchen in Cambridge on a casual basis.

In this role, you’ll be part of a skilled and passionate team preparing high-quality products for Hill Street customers across Tasmania. Our kitchen produces a wide range of meals, ready-to-eat dishes, packaged and fresh food lines, working closely with our pastry, smallgoods, and butchery operations onsite.

What you’ll bring:

• Formal cookery qualifications or equivalent industry experience
• Proven experience in food preparation and production, ideally in a high-volume commercial kitchen
• Strong technical cooking skills, with a focus on quality, flavour, and consistency
• Attention to detail in presentation and portioning
• A love of working with food and people, with good communication skills
• Energy, initiative, and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team
• Commitment to cleanliness, food safety, and workplace health and safety standards
• Physical fitness and stamina to work on your feet, lift and move items (16–55kg), and work in a cool production environment
• Willingness to handle raw ingredients including meat, dairy, and other fresh products
• Ongoing weekday availability

What to expect:

At Hill Street, we bring happiness through great food and are passionate about giving exceptional customer service. We are an independently owned and run Tasmanian business whose central values of pride, passion, growth, value and family inform everything we do. We aim to go above and beyond for each and every customer and provide an enjoyable shopping experience in a beautiful environment. We embrace excellence and encourage our team members to grow and succeed in a business they are proud to be part of.

This role involves working in a cool manufacturing and production environment with raw food products, including meat. You’ll need physical stamina for manual handling tasks such as bending, lifting, and moving items (16–55kg), in line with Australian Work Safe standards.

Pay rates are set by the Food, Beverage and Tobacco Manufacturing Award. The level classification and pay rate of the successful candidate will be based on experience (base hourly rate = $26 – $29 per hour).

If you believe you’ll thrive with us, please apply. We’ll be in touch if you are shortlisted.

Awarded Tasmanian Employer of Choice 2023