Executive Chef

Roasting Warehouse Specialty Coffee; Geelong; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Roasting Warehouse Group is seeking an Executive Chef to lead menu development across our Melbourne-based venues. This development-focused role requires crafting, testing and rolling out dishes that balance quality, profitability and consistency.

You will work with our venue head chefs, manage costings and GP targets, maintain recipe cards and specs, train teams, and ensure HACCP and food safety compliance while collaborating on launches and new concepts.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Executive Chef, Head Chef or Development Chef across multiple venues
• Strong portfolio of menu creation in Bistro or all-day dining
• Commercially minded with costings, GP and menu engineering
• Leader who can coach and support head chefs without needing to run every service
• Organised, self-driven and comfortable moving between sites
• Current food safety supervisor certificate (or willingness to obtain)
• Full driver’s licence and own vehicle preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead menu development across all venues – seasonal changes, new dishes, specials and menu refreshes
• Build and maintain recipe cards, plating guides, specs and costings for every dish
• Work to food cost and GP targets – menu engineering, supplier pricing and portion control
• Oversee kitchen operations across the group and work closely with each venue's head chef
• Train and develop kitchen teams on new menus, standards and techniques
• Drive consistency in quality, presentation and execution across all sites
• Manage supplier relationships, ordering systems and product sourcing
• Ensure food safety, HACCP and compliance standards are met at every venue
• Collaborate with management and marketing on launches, events and new concepts

Skills

Executive Chef experience

Menu development

Costings & GP

Leadership coaching

Organisation

Food safety supervisor

Driver's licence

Job description

Roasting Warehouse Specialty Coffee - Marshalltown VIC

Looking for an Executive Chef with the core focus of menu development to oversee our 3 Melbourne based team

Executive Chef - Menu Development | Roasting Warehouse Group

Roasting Warehouse is a family-owned specialty coffee roastery with a growing hospitality group across Melbourne. Alongside our roastery, we operate cafés in Airport West, North Melbourne and Docklands, plus FILIA - our all-day bistro café and wine bar in Strathmore.

We're looking for an experienced Executive Chef to lead food across the group. This is not a pass-and-service role. Your core focus will be menu development: creating, testing and rolling out food that's consistent, profitable and genuinely good, then supporting our venue head chefs to deliver it every day.

The role

• Lead menu development across all venues - seasonal changes, new dishes, specials and menu refreshes
• Build and maintain recipe cards, plating guides, specs and costings for every dish
• Work to food cost and GP targets - menu engineering, supplier pricing and portion control
• Oversee kitchen operations across the group and work closely with each venue's head chef
• Train and develop kitchen teams on new menus, standards and techniques
• Drive consistency in quality, presentation and execution across all sites
• Manage supplier relationships, ordering systems and product sourcing
• Ensure food safety, HACCP and compliance standards are met at every venue
• Collaborate with management and marketing on launches, events and new concepts

About you

• Proven experience as an Executive Chef, Head Chef or Development Chef, ideally across multiple venues
• A strong portfolio of menu creation in bistro or all-day dining
• Commercially minded - confident with costings, GP and menu engineering
• A leader who can coach and support head chefs without needing to run every service
• Organised, self-driven and comfortable moving between sites
• Current food safety supervisor certificate (or willingness to obtain)
• Full driver's licence and own vehicle preferred

What we offer

• Flexible working hours - this is a development-led role, not a service-led one
• Creative ownership of the food direction across a growing group
• A family-owned business with the backing of an established specialty coffee brand
• Competitive salary, commensurate with experience
• Staff discounts across our venues and coffee
• Room to grow with the group as we expand

If you're a chef who loves building menus as much as cooking them, we'd love to hear from you.