- Bring your passion and feel the energy
- Work during the day and only occasional events and evenings - get your life back
- Make your mark at our one hatted premium venue in the Yarra Valley
The Head Chef at Oakridge will be the culinary leader and manage a kitchen team across our hatted restaurant, events, terrace and cellar door food offerings.
You will lead the delivery of delicious and consistent food that highlights local, farm to plate produce with ingredients that are sourced locally and sustainably from our kitchen garden.
Furthermore, you will be responsible for hiring, training and developing your own team to ensure their ability matches expectations.
We are an award winning winery Halliday no.1 Winery and The Real Review Winery of the year with an equally stunning hatted restaurant overlooking the cool climate vines and stunning grounds of Oakridge Wines. Operating a large modern kitchen, we craft every dish with heart and honesty, using only the best local produce available.
You will join a friendly and supportive work culture, and can also look forward to a great lifestyle as we are an a la carte lunch only restaurant, opening only on evenings for pop up events, weddings and functions.
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Now let's talk about you
- Experienced in leading kitchen teams
- Experienced in multi site operations: hatted restaurant, events & weddings, small casual dining area
- Hatted restaurant experience
- Full accountability of P+L including: manage budgets, Cogs, labour, capex
- Cooking over fire
- Immaculate presentation
- Drive to be the best and bring out the best in your team
- Seasonal menu development and design
- Eagerness to enhance personal and team development
The benefits are good too!
- Onsite discounts onsite at Oakridge
- An exclusive discount card for BWS, Dan Murphy's, Woolworths, BIG W and other Endeavour Group brands, including our ALH pubs
- Monthly meeting-free days
- Your health and wellbeing is your most important asset, and as one of our valued team members, it's our first priority. You will have a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing
- Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big.
At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone's welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply.
We are together creators
With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy's, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals. We're serious about creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key, and flexibility is part of how we roll.
We're all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other. If this job excites you - and you're close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we'd love to hear from you.
You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or at endeavourgroupcareers.com.au.
Our Talent Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Endeavour Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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