Head Chef

Trains and leads culinary and kitchen employees to use standard methodology food production technique and ensure quality in final presentation of food.
- Oversee the general food production of breakfast, lunch and hospitality, ensuring first class food is delivered throughout.
- Maintains all staff records including training records, shift opening/closing checklists and performance data. Computer literate. Multi-tasking as well as ability to simplify the agenda for the team. is essential.
- Identifies the training needs of staff and carries out the relevant training in new procedures, methods of working or use of new equipment and cleaning products. Implement any new company policy decisions and train staff accordingly.
- Capability to develop innovative solutions in the most financially efficient way possible.
- Develops and maintains effective client and customer rapport for mutually beneficial business relationship. Aggregates and communicates regional culinary and ingredient trends.
- Empower the team to deliver excellence in customer service. Investigate concerns and respond to needs relating to the catering service and take corrective action.
- Full compliance with Operational Excellence fundamentals: managing waste, standard menus, recipes and ingredients through handling customer driven menus and labour standards. Understands end to end supply chain and procurement process and systems, ensures only authorised suppliers are used.

You will be set up for success if you have

NVQ Level 4
- City & Guilds 706/1, 706/2 or equivalent
- Clean Enhanced DBS.
- Experience in a similar role
- Can do attitude with a willingness to learn. Proactive in attitude.

Aramark (NYSE: ARMK) is in the customer service business across food, facilities and uniforms, wherever people work, learn, recover, and play. United by a passion to serve, our more than 247,000 team members deliver experiences that enrich and nourish the lives of millions of people in 19 countries around the world every day.

Your Aramark journey starts here

Aramark UK are currently recruiting a Head Chef to join our team working in Bolton, BL5 1EE You will be responsible for the kitchen operation, cost efficiency and production of innovative quality food/menus in line with agreed budgets to improve sales. Aramark UK are making a work life balance achievable whilst still working in hospitality, cultivating your culinary career with a world leading organisation. Aramark provides world-class contract catering services to our extensive list of clients across the UK, including Defence and Judicial, private industry and Education. We are very lucky to have some of the best Culinary and Catering talent that the UK has to offer working within our teams.

This is a full-time position, 40 hours per week, Monday
- Friday, between 6.30am
- 3pm, leaving your evenings and weekends free, a rarity when you work within culinary!
- We are offering an annual salary of £35,000.
- Free meals on duty, parking on-site, and a great work-life balance!
- You will have access to MyStaffShop
- which includes 100's of discounts, including savings on your weekly supermarket shop and weekend treats.
- We also offer a company package including life assurance, pension contributions, generous holiday entitlement with the option to buy more, and many more perks.
- You will also be joining a great team, with fabulous career prospect and could lead to all sorts of opportunities - we LOVE to promote from within. We are passionate about developing our people and over training and development. We also offer apprenticeship schemes, so that your learning journey can continue.