Chef Manager

Impact Food Group; Greenhithe; On-site; GBP 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a rapidly growing education catering company dedicated to improving children's meals! As a Chef Manager, you'll lead a team in preparing delicious, fresh food while enjoying a great work-life balance with daytime hours and school holidays off. This role offers opportunities for career growth, free meals on shift, and a supportive environment where you can thrive. If you're passionate about food and want to make a difference in children's lives, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Benefits

Free meals on shift

Company pension

Uniform provided

Staff discount scheme

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experienced Chef Manager with a passion for cooking fresh seasonal ingredients.
• Skilled in managing kitchen operations and ensuring service runs smoothly.

Responsibilities

• Head the kitchen team and manage daily operations.
• Ensure compliance with food safety and quality standards.

Skills

Cooking Skills

People Management

Kitchen Management

Food Safety Compliance

Education

Culinary Arts Certification

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: New School in the Dartford Area DA9

Working Days: Monday to Friday

Shifts & Working hours: 6.30am-4.00pm (45 hours per week)

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

Pay Details: GBP35,500 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.