Chef Manager

Impact Food Group; Reading; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading catering company in the UK seeks a skilled Chef Manager to lead a kitchen team, ensuring high-quality food service using fresh ingredients. The role involves managing staff and maintaining standards while liaising directly with clients. Candidates should have strong cooking and management skills. Enjoy a work-life balance with daytime hours, weekends, and holidays off. The company offers free meals, career development, and discounts at over 850 retailers.

Benefits

Free meal on shift

Career development opportunities

Staff discount scheme

Monthly team rewards

Qualifications

• Experienced Chef Manager with expertise in cooking for large volumes.
• Strong people management skills and ability to lead a kitchen team.
• Knowledge of food safety and due diligence requirements.

Responsibilities

• Head the kitchen team, ensuring smooth service and adherence to standards.
• Liaise directly with onsite clients to meet their needs.

Skills

Cooking skills

People management

Experience with fresh ingredients

Job description

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.

Responsibilities

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!

About the Company

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. IFG has 4 amazing brands: Cucina, Innovate, Hutchison & Chapter One.

Work Schedule

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.

Perks & Benefits

• 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.