Chef Manager

Independents by Sodexo; The Municipal District of Ashbourne; Remote; EUR 27,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Employee benefits package

Wellbeing platform access

Employee Assistance Programme

24 hr virtual GP

Discounts scheme

Pension plan

Learning & development tools

Bike to Work

Enhanced benefits & leave policies

Job summary

Sodexo is hiring a Chef Manager for Navan to oversee daily kitchen operations in a high-volume setting. The role focuses on preparing meals, maintaining top hygiene standards, and driving a positive, innovative kitchen culture.

You will contribute ideas, lead a team, ensure safety protocols, and support clients with high-quality, nutritious meals in a dynamic workplace dining environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Chef in a high-volume setting.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise tasks.
• Commitment to maintaining the highest food safety and hygiene standards.

Responsibilities

• Cook up mouth watering menu items with a passion for perfection.
• Ensure the highest standards of food hygiene and health and safety are maintained.
• Contribute to a positive and innovative kitchen culture.
• Bring your ideas to the table and cook up new techniques.

Skills

Chef experience

High-volume cooking

Organisational skills

Food safety

Education

Professional cookery or culinary qualifications

Job description

• Full time
• 39 hours per week
• Typically 06:30-14:30; 10:00-19:00
• €24 per hour
• Opportunities for career development
• Plus our Sodexo employee benefits package

Chef Manager

St. Columban Missionaries, Dalgan Park, Navan - Full time

A recipe for success; Serve incredible food, enjoy incredible perks.

At Sodexo, you'll belong in a team and thrive in service. We know that our talented chefs are the key to delivering exceptional service and tasteful experiences for our clients, customers, and employees.

Build a name with big-brand businesses and corporate clients, delivering high-quality nutritious meals for boardroom lunches, executive events, and daily workplace dining. This role calls for a chef who can blend maintaining excellent standards, while working efficiently in a fast-paced, trend-setting, client-focused environment.

What you'll do:

• Cook up mouth watering menu items, with a passion for perfection
• Ensure the highest standards of food hygiene and health and safety are maintained
• Contribute to a positive and innovative kitchen culture
• Bring your ideas to the table and cook up new techniques

What you'll bring:

• Proven experience as a Chef in a high volume setting
• Professional cookery or culinary qualifications
• Strong organisational skills with an ability to prioritise tasks
• Commitment to maintaining the highest food safety and hygiene standards

Why Sodexo?:

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance tobe part of something greater.

Belong in a company and team that values you foryou.

Act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.

Thrive in your own way.

We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
• Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
• Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular big-brand retailers
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
• Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
• Sodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policies

A little more about Sodexo:

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

We are committed tobeingan inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.

Ready to be part of something greater?

Feed our customers and we’ll fuel your career.

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications