Head Chef Mountain Goat Brewery – Newtown
Asahi Beverages
Date: 12 hours ago
City: Sydney, New South Wales
Contract type: Full time
Your Impact
We're on the hunt for a Head Chef to fire up the kitchen at Mountain Goat Brewery – Newtown!
Ready to lead a passionate brigade in a buzzing brewpub setting? We're looking for a culinary leader who can drive performance, inspire the team, and serve up seriously good food that keeps the locals coming back for more.
As our Head Chef, you'll steer the kitchen to hit financial targets while dishing out consistent, high-quality fare that pairs perfectly with our legendary brews. You'll take charge of food safety, profitability, and innovation – all while fostering a strong, motivated team culture that champions development and retention.
This is a full-time role, working 38 hours per week, including weekend shifts as part of the regular roster and reasonable overtime when required
Key Accountabilities
Ensure Quality and service
Stock Control & Maintenance
About You
We're on the hunt for a Head Chef to fire up the kitchen at Mountain Goat Brewery – Newtown!
Ready to lead a passionate brigade in a buzzing brewpub setting? We're looking for a culinary leader who can drive performance, inspire the team, and serve up seriously good food that keeps the locals coming back for more.
As our Head Chef, you'll steer the kitchen to hit financial targets while dishing out consistent, high-quality fare that pairs perfectly with our legendary brews. You'll take charge of food safety, profitability, and innovation – all while fostering a strong, motivated team culture that champions development and retention.
This is a full-time role, working 38 hours per week, including weekend shifts as part of the regular roster and reasonable overtime when required
Key Accountabilities
Ensure Quality and service
- Ensure consistent food quality and presentation standards, especially in your absence
- Ensure all menu items are available at any given time and staff adhere to par-levels
- Demonstrate understanding of seasonality, current trends, market placement and competition
- Present ideas in line with brief, physical capabilities of the kitchen and staff skills
- Ensure staff adhere to OH&S policies
- Ensure each shift is staffed appropriately and rosters are adjusted according to external factors
- Ensure kitchen is in a presentable state at any given time and staff adhere to uniform policies
- Ensure the maintenance of both high productivity and good staff morale
- Coach, counsel, train, reward and develop reporting staff
- Training and development of staff
- Performance manage staff when required strictly following HR policies
- Write weekly rosters to budget without compromising service levels
Stock Control & Maintenance
About You
- Solid experience as a head chef or sous chef ready for their next role
- A knack for elevating the classics with fresh ideas and flavours
- Experience leading and mentoring kitchen teams
- A positive, solutions-focused attitude and a collaborative leadership style
- Formal culinary qualifications
- A love of great food, a strong sense of team, and an eye for quality
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