Chef Manager

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

Job summary

A prominent education catering company is seeking a Chef Manager to lead a kitchen team in Manchester. This role involves managing food service for schools, ensuring high standards of food safety and hygiene, and requires experience in cooking with fresh ingredients. Enjoy a work-life balance with daytime hours and school holidays off, along with career development opportunities and various benefits.

Benefits

Free meals on shift

Mileage paid during mobilisations

Uniform provided

Pension scheme

Career development opportunities

Staff discount scheme at retailers

Qualifications

• Proven leadership skills and ability to motivate staff.
• Experienced in managing kitchen services for over 300 meals.
• Food hygiene and preparation qualifications essential.

Responsibilities

• Head up the kitchen team at school sites.
• Responsible for health and safety and food hygiene compliance.
• Manage stock ordering, rotas, and people management.

Skills

Leadership

Technical Cooking Skills

Financial Skills

Organisational Skills

Food Hygiene Qualifications

Job description

Job Description

Welcome to IFG, we are one of the fastest growing, education catering companies in the country and were recently awarded Contract Caterer of the year 2025 at the Contract Catering 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.

Due to continued growth, we are recruiting additional Chef Managers to join the IFG Team- You will assist with the mobalisations of our new sites in September then move to head up the team as Chef Manager at a school local to where you are based.

The role…

Job Title: Chef Manager

Area Supporting: Manchester & surrounding areas

Working Days: Monday to Friday

Shifts & Working hours: 6.30am/7am start some flexibility needed (45 hours per week)

Working Weeks: 42 weeks per year

(Term time, inset days and 3 additional weeks for deep cleans, stock and getting ready for the new term)

Pay Details: £35,000 per year

Benefits: Whilst mobilising mileage paid at 45p per mile,

free meals on shift, uniform, pension, and other great company benefits.

To begin with this will be a mobile position whilst training and will require a full valid UK driving license and your own vehicle.

What will I be doing?

• As Chef Manager you will head up the kitchen team at one of our schools
• Cook from our amazing menu using fresh seasonal ingredients
• All stock ordering, rotas, and people management
• Responsible for the health and safety & maintaining a high level of food safety and hygiene compliance
• Being financially accountable for the unit attaining its GP/COGs
• Be the face if IFG with the client.

Skills needed:

• Proven leadership skills and the ability to motivate staff
• Strong technical Cooking Skills
• Good financial skills for stocks and menus
• Ability to work in challenging environments, while maintaining high standards
• Excellent organisational and administrative skills
• Food hygiene and food preparation qualifications essential

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 of 300+, managing your kitchen and liaising directly with onsite clients.

As the 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 trade test/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.

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