Chef Manager - Plympton

About Us:

Our client is a market leading contract catering company specialising in school food. By combining their understanding of the education sector and their knowledge of what’s on trend in the food world, they encourage creativity and excitement in their kitchens, allowing the teams to do what they do best and provide fantastic food experiences for the children.

The Role:

As the Chef Manager you will have full operational and financial responsibility for your schools catering facility, focusing on delivering the highest quality of food and service as well as having the flair, originality and the ability to make this one of the best school catering offers in the area.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Financial Control: Managing and improving all controllable costs, including stock, food and labour.

• Team Leadership: Lead, coach, train and inspire your kitchen team to deliver excellence every day.

• Culinary Innovation: Oversee menu development and drive sales through exciting monthly promotions and added-value events.

• Quality Assurance: Guarantee all standards, systems and essential legislation are met through regular audits and proactive management.

About you

We’re looking for a passionate leader who is ready to drive excellence and profitability. If you’re hungry for a role where you can fully own the operation, you’ll need: 

•  A strong understanding of Gross Profit (GP) management and the strategic know-how to smash sales targets.

• Fantastic craft skills with a genuine commitment to using fresh ingredients to deliver exceptional quality food.

• Proven experience in line management—you know how to coach, motivate, and inspire to develop a high-performing team.

• Excellent knowledge of health and safety practices.

• A qualification like OND/HND is a bonus, but your on-the-job experience is what we’re truly after.

Why join?

Firstly, fantastic hours. You’ll work Monday to Friday during school term time meaning more time with friends and family and no working at Christmas!

This role is:

• 30 hours per week

• 38 weeks per year - what will you do with all that time off?

• £13.50 per hour

You’ll also benefit from:

• Working for a fast growing, ambitious company. There is no ceiling here in terms of where you can take your career
• A dedicated L&D team to support you in developing your skills including apprenticeships and training courses that are available for everyone.

Please note, we do expect all staff to share their commitment of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children/young people and an enhanced DBS disclosure will be sought by the company.

Pineapple Recruitment are recruiting for this role on behalf of our client and are acting as Recruitment Agency.