Culinary Team Lead - Fast-Paced Event Kitchen

Compass Group Canada; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Benefits

Mental Health & Wellness

Great Place to Work recognition

Job summary

Compass Group Canada is seeking a strong culinary professional to lead kitchen stands during event catering. The role requires hands-on cooking, food prep, and team leadership to ensure guest satisfaction and timely service at events.

You will train new staff, ensure safety standards, and coordinate with stand leads for smooth operation. The ideal candidate brings experience in cooking and food preparation, plus the ability to manage 3–6 team members, adapt to flexible shifts, and maintain high

Qualifications

• Experience or a combination of education in cooking, food prep, and/or culinary arts is required.
• Must be able to demonstrate past experience leading 3-6 team members.
• Must be flexible with schedule and able to work different shifts, availability must fit operational needs.
• Must practice good personal hygiene.
• Must be able to effectively give and receive instructions.
• Smart Serve certification is considered an asset.

Responsibilities

• Be on-time for shift, in uniform, and prepared to work at the scheduled start time.
• Lead and motivate a team within a work area to accomplish the assigned duties.
• Train new employees on stand menu, preparation guidelines and presentation standards.
• Ensure assigned concourse stand or entire floor and all staff are prepared and ready to go at event start times.
• Ensure work areas have completed station set-up and breakdown responsibilities for event start time.
• Follow recipe guidelines and complete steps of service to ensure guest satisfaction.
• Understand menu items and answer guest inquiries.
• Complete food preparation and production in a timely manner.
• Monitor prep and communicate needs during events.
• Maintain logs and proper cooling where applicable.

Skills

Cooking

Food prep

Culinary arts

Team leadership

Tools

Smart Serve certification

Job description

Compass Group Canada is seeking a strong culinary professional to lead kitchen stands during event catering. The role requires hands-on cooking, food prep, and team leadership to ensure guest satisfaction and timely service at events.

You will train new staff, ensure safety standards, and coordinate with stand leads for smooth operation. The ideal candidate brings experience in cooking and food preparation, plus the ability to manage 3–6 team members, adapt to flexible shifts, and maintain high