Cook Manager

Impact Food Group; Melton Mowbray; On-site; GBP 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading education catering company is seeking a Chef Manager in Melton Mowbray to oversee the cooking of primary meals and manage a team. The role features daytime working hours and school holidays off, ensuring a great work-life balance. Ideal candidates will have cooking and people management skills, with a commitment to high-quality service. Free meals on shift, uniform, and numerous development opportunities are included.

Benefits

Free meal on shift

Uniform provided

Career development opportunities

Staff discount scheme at over 850 retailers

Qualifications

• Experienced Cook/Chef Manager familiar with cooking using fresh seasonal ingredients at volume.
• Ability to manage a team and ensure smooth service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 5 and oversee the cooking of around 350 primary meals.
• Ensure all due diligence is adhered to in the kitchen.

Skills

Cooking skills

People management

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

We’renot going to bore you with a long list of empty adjectives, we want one simple thing: awesome people to help us feedmorechildren better food.

The role…

Job Title: ChefManager

School Location: Brownlow Primary Academy, Melton Mowbray, LE13

Working Days: Monday to Friday

Shifts & Working hours: 7.30am-3pm (37.5hours per week)

Working Weeks: 39weeks per year (term time plus inset days)

Pay Details: £25,000 per year

This role is managing a team of 5, and cooking around 350primary meals. It includes overseeing the delivery of meals to 3 local primaryschools.

Your Background…

We’reopen to people with great cooking and people management skills.You will be an experienced Cook/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’renot in the business of making school food,we’rehere to makegoodfood, after all, that’s why our clientsandcustomers 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 schoolholidays off, giving you the opportunity for some great work-life balance.

Asan added bonusa free meal is supplied on shift! (and uniform)

We’llgive you a place to grow and a career to be proud of.

There are loads of free qualifications and career development opportunities to be hadandwe’vegot a staffdiscount scheme at over850 retailers!

We also run monthlyopportunities for the best teams to win shopping vouchers...

Next steps…

If you thinkyou’vegot what it takes, and the times above suit you,we’dlove 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 requiredtoundergo an enhancedDBS check, which IFG will pay for.

We area committed equal opportunities employer - if you require any assistance for the interview process, please detail withinyourapplication. Allinformation is kept confidential and in compliance with GDPR requirements.