Hospitality Chef

Job Reference SDX/TP/1209125/91921

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Number of Positions:

Contract Type:

Permanent – Full Time

Salary:

Depending on experience

Working Hours:

37.5

Location:

Oldbury, West Midlands

Closing Date:

03/09/2022

Job Category:

Chefs

Sodexo Segment:

UK Corporate Services - Frontline

Package Description

37.5 hours per week
£10.00-£13.00 per hour depending on experience
Monday - Friday
7am-2pm
Full uniform supplied
Full training provided
Train station near by, bus stops near by
Secure free parking available on site
Unconditional support, recognition and growth opportunities

Job Introduction

About the role

Here at Sodexo, our talented Chefs use their passion to create beautiful dishes using the finest ingredients, whilst being sensitive to nutritional needs and environmental impact. We have a vacancy for you to join our busy team as a Hospitality Chef at DPD Oldbury

You’ll be responsible for supporting the team in maintaining the highest standard in the preparation, presentation and service of food, within the company standards and the contract specifications.

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications.

A Few things about you

We want you to bring your passion for food, great communication skills your innovation when you join us!

Being part of a busy team will allow you to demonstrate your excellent service standards, as well as give you opportunities to prepare, cook and present delicious, fresh dishes.

Ideally you’ll need to have:

· NVQ Level 2 or equivalent

· Food and Hygiene and Health and Safety Certificates.

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.

Main Responsibilities

To ensure that all food services are produced to the agreed client & Company standard through the catering team and in all areas of your responsibility.
To actively enforce relevant statutory, company and site H&S and FS compliance together with the monitoring of related equipment
To motivate and lead catering employees to perform their roles to a high standard and in alignment to Sodexo policies and procedures
To actively seek and identify opportunities for business growth within the contract and external market
To drive the margin through adhering to the recipes on DRIVE
To drive sales through keeping the food offer fresh & up to date

Ensure the “service” at point of delivery in all of your business is exceeding the standards required and the customer is receiving the best quality service at all times of the day and that the contract is meeting the client objectives in relation to finance and operational KPI’s
Understand the services that Sodexo offers, and the end-to-end process of Sodexo’s operating systems/procedures involved in delivering the services to our client.
To complete to take stock to ensure accuracy on GP/stock holding is achieved every week.

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for an experienced chef who is passionate about food to work in a busy staff restaurant. The successful candidate must be able to work well as a team and build a good relationship with their customers and team alike.

This candidate must have a proven track record in food production and must be able to produce good quality food in a busy catering environment.

This hours for this post are as follows - Monday - Friday 7am-2pm with the occasional chance of overtime

There may be a necessity to occasional cover the night shift for holidays which would be 4 weeks of the year to cover the night shift chef for holidays and any sickness.

Job Type: Full-time

About The Company

Why choose 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

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