Relief Chef — Lead Catering Team | Flexible Hours & Perks

Elior Uk; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free meals

Flexible working

Holiday allowance 28/31

Leave for important moments

Volunteering days

Career development

Wellbeing

Pension & life assurance

Exclusive discounts

Job summary

Elior UK is looking for a Relief Chef to lead and support a catering team across busy workplace sites, driving culinary excellence, managing stock, and ensuring safety and compliance while delivering outstanding service.

You will work 40 hours over 5 days, oversee a multi-site operation when required, and play a key role in developing the team and delivering consistent, high-quality meals for customers and clients.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership ability
• Genuine interest in customer service excellence
• A strong team player, highly confident and positive
• Catering experience with chef skills (contract catering is desirable)
• Senior chef management experience essential

Responsibilities

• Recruiting, training, supporting and people development to deliver an efficient, high quality service to Elior UK, customer and client
• Maintaining, ordering and controlling food stocks within budget
• Ensuring ongoing team communications, including building internal and external relationships, management reporting and client liaison to enable operational excellence
• Accountable for COSHH, Food Safety, H&S, legal regulations, environmental policies and duty of care to customer and colleagues
• Attending other sites, including Cummins Turbo (Huddersfield HD1 6RA) and Graphic Packaging (Leeds LS11 5LX), as required to support operational needs

Skills

Leadership

Customer service

Team player

Catering experience

Senior chef management

Job description

Elior UK is looking for a Relief Chef to lead and support a catering team across busy workplace sites, driving culinary excellence, managing stock, and ensuring safety and compliance while delivering outstanding service.

You will work 40 hours over 5 days, oversee a multi-site operation when required, and play a key role in developing the team and delivering consistent, high-quality meals for customers and clients.