Role: Sous Chef – Fresh Food Daytime Restaurant
Location: Manchester
Salary: £30k - £40k (dependent on experience)
Monday – Friday / Day time Hours / Creative Fresh Food / Fine Dining
(Drivers required)
We are recruiting a talented and experienced Chef to join a small team creating exciting and daily changing fresh food menus, working with world cuisines and producing a weekly fine dining menu.
This is a Monday – Friday daytime role where you will work within a small team, collaborate creatively on menus and deliver exceptional service and standards.
We are looking for a unique and talented experienced chef who takes pride in their food and work. Knowledge and interest in nutrition is highly desirable and experience working in fine dining is also essential, alongside a down to earth personality, calm and collected nature, whilst having drive and ambition.
The role:
- Contributing to creating high quality fresh food daily menus, bring ideas from world cuisines, with a healthy, nutritious and vibrant feel, and cater for a wide range of dietary requirements.
. Deliver specialist menus and canapes on a weekly basis, including fine dining menus
- Work in a team environment, supporting and collaborating to deliver exceptional food, service and standards.
- Deliver exceptional customer focused creative and nutritional menus.
- Actively engage with wider teams in the business to exceed expectations and gather feedback to drive menu creation.
- Be responsible for food compliance, Health and safety, food safety, and allergen management.
The candidate:
- Sous chef level experience within a high-quality food operation - fine dining experience is essential
. Experience and knowledge / an interest in Nutritional and healthy menus, creating and cooking nutritional healthy food and able to bring these menu ideas to the food concept.
- A natural drive to achieve customer satisfaction with an open and collaborative nature and open communication
- Passionate about producing exciting, vibrant, food, and world-wide cuisines with the ability to balance compliance and creativity.
- A willingness to seek feedback on menu ideas and be open to change to keep customers happy and content.
- Happy to step outside of your comfort zone and enjoy a challenge and a willingness to work across all areas of the kitchen and pitch in with cleanliness and organisation.
. Computer literate, with the ability to create menus, costings and work on the in-house system.
. Excellent people skills and a positive attitude in the workplace are essential qualities for this role.
What’s on offer:
- An excellent salary and excellent company benefits, including life assurance and private health care
Free Fitness studio and gym classes
Free Parking
A great work life balance, Monday – Friday day shifts
Opportunity to continue learning and developing your knowledge
Hesketh James Recruitment are the managing agent for this role on behalf of the client.
In order to ensure your enquiry with regards to this position is dealt with quickly, please send in an up-to-date copy of your Curriculum Vitae in a Word Document format.