Chef Manager

Impact Food Group; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking education catering company as a Chef Manager, where your culinary skills will help feed children delicious, nutritious meals. This role offers a fantastic work-life balance with daytime hours, weekends, and holidays off. You'll manage a dynamic kitchen team, ensuring high standards of food quality and service. With opportunities for career growth, free meals, and a supportive work environment, this position is perfect for those passionate about making a positive impact in children's lives through food. Embrace the chance to develop your skills while enjoying a fulfilling career.

Benefits

Free meals on shift

Company pension

Uniform provided

Career development opportunities

Staff discount at over 850 retailers

Bonus potential

Qualifications

• Experienced Chef Manager with a passion for cooking fresh seasonal ingredients.
• Strong people management skills and kitchen oversight experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage kitchen operations and ensure smooth service delivery.
• Liaise directly with onsite clients and maintain food quality standards.

Skills

Cooking

People Management

Kitchen Management

Food Safety Compliance

Education

Culinary Qualifications

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 re not going to bore you with a long list of empty adjectives, we want one simple thing: awesome people to help us feed more children better food.

The role

Job Title: Chef Manager

School Location: St Peters School, Huntingdon, PE29

Working Days: Monday to Friday

Shifts & Working hours: 7am-4pm (45 hours per week)

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

Pay Details: GBP32500 per year

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

Free meals onshift & IFG uniform

Company pension and other great IFG benefits

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 re not in the business of making school food, we re here to make good food, after all, that s why our clients and customers 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 school holidays off, giving you the opportunity for some great work-life balance.

As an added bonus a free meal is supplied on shift! (and uniform)

We ll give you a place to grow and a career to be proud of.

There are loads of free qualifications and career development opportunities to be had and we ve got a staff discount scheme at over 850 retailers!

We also run monthly opportunities for the best teams to win shopping vouchers

Next steps

If you think you ve got what it takes, and the times above suit you, we d love 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 required to undergo an enhanced DBS check, which IFG will pay for.

We are a committed equal opportunities employer - if you require any assistance for the interview process, please detail within your application. All information is kept confidential and in compliance with GDPR requirements.