Chef Manager

Impact Food Group; Watford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading education catering company is seeking an experienced Chef Manager for their school in Watford. This role offers daytime working hours, weekends, and evenings off, along with school holidays. The successful candidate will manage a kitchen team, ensuring high food quality and smooth operations during service hours. Additional benefits include potential bonuses, free meals on shift, and various career development opportunities. An enhanced DBS check is required for the role, which the company will fund.

Benefits

Bonus potential up to 10%

Free meals on shift

Company pension

Career development opportunities

Staff discount scheme

Qualifications

• Experienced Chef Manager with a background in cooking using fresh seasonal ingredients.
• Ability to manage a kitchen and liaise directly with onsite clients.
• Strong skill set in leading a team and ensuring service quality.

Responsibilities

• Head up the kitchen team ensuring smooth service.
• Adhere to all due diligence in food safety.
• Make quality food for school clients.

Skills

Cooking skills

People management

Experience with fresh ingredients

Job description

Welcome to IFG, we are one of the fastest growing, education catering companies in the country and were recently awarded Education Caterer of the year at the Foodservice Catey Awards.

We’renot going to bore you with a long list of empty adjectives, we want one simple thing: awesome people to help us feedmorechildren better food.

The role…

Job Title: ChefManager

School Location: Future Academies Watford. WD25

Working Days: Monday to Friday

Shifts & Working hours: 6.30am-4pm (45hours per week)

Working Weeks: 42weeks per year ( term time, inset days and 3 additional weeks)

Pay Details: £35,000 -£38,0000 per year DOE

Benefits: Bonus potential of up to 10% of salary (Companies Discression),

Free meals onshift & IFG uniform

Company pension and other great IFGbenefits

Your Background…

We’re open to people with great cooking and people management skills. You will be an experienced Chef Manager, used to cooking using fresh seasonal ingredients at volume, managing your kitchen and liaising directly with onsite clients.

As manager you will head up the team, making sure service runs smoothly and that all due diligence is adhered to.

We’renot in the business of making school food, we’rehere to makegoodfood, after all, that’s why our clientsandcustomers love us!

What’s in it for me?

So maybe you fancy working somewhere close to home, with daytime hours, and with your weekends and evenings free?

Not to mention all schoolholidays off, giving you the opportunity for some great work-life balance.

Asan added bonusa free meal is supplied on shift! (and uniform)

We’llgive you a place to grow and a career to be proud of.

There are loads of free qualifications and career development opportunities to be hadandwe’vegot a staffdiscount scheme at over850 retailers!

We also run monthlyopportunities for the best teams to win shopping vouchers...

Next steps…

If you thinkyou’vegot what it takes, and the times above suit you,we’dlove to hear from you!

An interview and kitchen visit will be required for this role.

IFG are committed to the safeguarding of children and our employees share this commitment. Successful candidates are requiredtoundergo an enhancedDBS check, which IFG will pay for.

We area committed equal opportunities employer - if you require any assistance for the interview process, please detail withinyourapplication. Allinformation is kept confidential and in compliance with GDPR requirements.