Executive Sous Chef

The Culinary team at Delaware North in Melbourne have an exciting opening for a full time Executive Sous Chef to join us in a key leadership role within our Stadia business. 

Delaware North is a market leader in the catering and hospitality industry with a portfolio spanning sporting stadiums, airports, leisure and entertainment venues across Australia and New Zealand. We proudly deliver some of Australia's largest and most exciting sporting and entertainment events.

About the role

We are looking for a dynamic Executive Sous Chef who is a proven leader and creative individual with culinary and managerial skills to mentor and develop a diverse culinary team. You will have extensive experience from high end to high volume operations with demonstrated commercial acumen and a passion for creating world-class dining experiences.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Oversee all aspects of culinary operations including high volume production, high end à la carte dining, events and retail food offerings
• Delivery operation of event-day and non-event day catering, across a variety of cuisines.
• Leading a culinary team to success, training and strong leadership.
• Set, implement and review high food service standards, implement systems
• Support with control of the department budget and food costs, embrace and follow our IT systems.
• Managing performance and labour costs for permanent and casual kitchen staff
• Championing on-site food safety and HACCP accreditation.
• Combining with other F&B arms to provide first-class dining to all customers.

The successful candidate will have:

• A successful track record of managing large-scale or high-end restaurant kitchen operations (venue/event experience will be highly regarded).
• Demonstrated success in leading, developing, and motivating a large and diverse kitchen team
• Experience with menu setting and stock control.
• Demonstrated commercial acumen, experience delivering business outcomes
• Appropriate culinary qualifications
• Competence in using business technology such as stock control systems, spreadsheets, accounting systems.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills at all levels

This is a truly exciting opportunity to join Delaware North where you will be working with an incredibly supportive and talented team of industry leaders who share your passion for culinary and hospitality. If you are looking for your next challenge we would love to hear from you!