Full Time Chef

Stanley Mount Waverley seeks a full-time Chef to join our team. We are offering you:

 The opportunity to work within a professional team who foster an exceptional working environment.

The chance to be a part of a team in an iconic café.

An attractive salary of $70K for the position of Chef, depending on your qualifications, experience, and skills.

 The role on offer is a permanent long-term position, and will sit within an established team, with long-term goals and new opportunities on the horizon.

Located on the busy trendy Stanley Avenue shopping strip, this high-end café serves the best coffee and the best food in Melbourne.

We seek applicants who:

Have experience in putting high quality food on the pass, and maintains high standards Have experience in planning menus, preparation, cooking, butchering, or pastry cooking as required.

Have no issue with following directions.

Are excellent multi-taskers with initiative to take the lead in improving kitchen efficiency.

Possess a demonstrable passion for food.

Have excellent inter-personal skills, maintaining a calm demeanour in high-pressure situations and use these traits to perform well in a team.

Have leadership qualities with excellent time and management skills. Are Australian citizens or Australian PR.

Tasks and duties in the kitchen, applicable to the positions of chef, will include:

 Planning menu and introducing innovative dishes in consultation with our Executive Chef

 Food preparation and monitoring quality of dishes for both a la carte and function service

• Preparing and cooking food 
• Controlling and directing the food preparation process 
• Demonstration of cooking techniques and advising on cooking procedures
• Freezing and preserving raw, semi-cooked and cooked food 

Exercise responsibility for the direct supervision of other cooks and other kitchen/catering staff in the kitchen and other catering services, including allocation of duties, preparation of rosters, approval of overtime and training of all kitchen staff in the absence of our Executive Chef.

• Monitor cleaning rosters and enforcing food hygiene practices in the kitchen. 
• Ensuring rigorous implementation of OH&S policies. 
• Managing the training and developing apprentice cooks and other staff in the kitchen and other catering services in consultation with our Executive Chef. 
• Implementing workplace policies and procedures as directed by the Executive Chef or the café management.

Implement OH&S policies rigorously.

To perform all duties consistent with the Vision, Mission, Values and policies of Stanley Mount Waverley and Statutory requirements.

The applicants for the position of Chef must hold AQF Diploma of Hospitality and AQF Certificate IV and AQF Certificate III in Commercial Cookery. The prospective chef must have at least 2 years relevant full-time work experience (including part-time work experience on pro- rata basis) in the role of a Chef, in reputed restaurants/cafes in Australia.

This position will be subject to probationary period up to 3 months.  This opportunity is perfect for an experienced Restaurant/ Café Manager who has passion for customer service and managerial skills.