Chef

Package Description

• 37.5 hours a week
• £10.30 per hour 
• Daytime hours only, no evenings
• Free on-site car park / Bicycle storage
• Optional overtime available
• Cycle to work scheme
• Showers onsite
• Free food and coffee

Job Introduction

About the Role

At Sodexo, we’re passionate about food and we place our customers at the heart of everything we do! We currently have a vacancy for Chef to join our friendly and dedicated team at AstraZeneca, Macclesfield!

To deliver our great service, we have passionate Chefs behind us, and we are looking for you to join us in our modern kitchen, where the aromas of freshly prepared ingredients and the sound of a sizzling pan will put a fire in your belly!

With a cheerful approach and infectious smile, you’ll be responsible for preparing our mouth-watering dishes and serving them to our colleagues for breakfast, lunch through the day!

You’ll ensure you have a keen eye for food temperatures and adhering to cleaning standards for kitchen.

Few Things about You

When you join us, you’ll bring your fantastic communication skills, your flair in the kitchen and your desire to learn new skills!

To keep things ticking along, you’ll bring your enthusiasm, your Chef NVQ level 3 qualification and your fantastic organisation skills!

Sodexo embeds a strong safety culture in everything we do. There will be company procedures to follow alongside our Health & Safety practises so it is vital that you will champion this. 

About The Company

Why chooses Sodexo?
You don’t just join Sodexo, you belong.   

What do we mean when we say belong?  

It’s simple. You create a company where everyone is respected and feels that their ideas count. You take care of the quality of life of your people. You make your workplace inclusive, encouraging people to bring their whole self to work every day. That’s our philosophy in a nutshell.   

A career at Sodexo won’t tie you down, it actively encourages your progress. The diverse range of roles we offer is truly infinite. Whatever your skills, experience or passion, you’ll be encouraged and supported to have a fulfilling career. 

We are committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Working Parents, Sodexo Disability, So together, generations and origins.  We have also launched Be Heard which is an employee network designed to bring black colleagues together (virtually) to bring about positive change.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.   

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.

Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture. 

Our benefits:   
As part of our commitment to improving the quality of life, health and wellbeing for our employees we provide discounts and benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs. In addition to the essentials like 20 days holidays (plus bank holidays) and pension contribution, we can help you take advantage of being part of Sodexo with benefits such as;    

• Sodexo Discounts - discounts from over 1,200 top retailers with you earning WOW Points (cashback) as you shop   
• Talk – a free wellbeing support helpline for you and your family   
• Up to three paid days each year to volunteer
• Your Lucky Number Employee Lottery (this also supports the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation)
• Cycle to work    
• Life assurance