Head Chef
Core
Lead the kitchen team at a busy country pub and hotel, maintaining high standards of food quality, safety, and commercial performance while preparing for an upcoming refit.
Role type
Senior IC Kitchen Manager / Head Chef
Builds
Pub dining, hotel room service, and Sunday roasts
Domain
Hospitality / Food & Beverage
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Kitchen leadership, team coaching and motivation, food safety and hygiene compliance, stock and cost management, operational planning under pressure, commercial awareness
Preferred skills
Experience in pub or hotel environments, hands-on service leadership, ability to drive business growth
Technologies
N/A
Responsibilities
Lead the kitchen team from the front and set clear expectations, maintain consistently high standards across food quality and service, coach and develop the kitchen staff, manage stock takes, ordering, rotation, and wastage, monitor food costs and gross profit, ensure compliance with health and safety regulations, prepare the kitchen for an upcoming refit
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC