Kitchen Manager

About the role

As a Head Chef/Kitchen Manager at Piata9 Oradea, you’re also a team player and food waste saver. Your passion for food and organizational excellence will lead an entire food production. This is a chance to make a positive impact, all while getting an opportunity to advance your career with an uprising global brand! Join Piata9 and be part of something greater. You belong in a team where you can act with purpose and thrive in your own way.

This is a really exciting opportunity, you will ooze passion to deliver exceptional customer service that builds valuable long-term relationships with team, customers and stakeholders. You’ll be an inspirational leader who loves getting the best from your team and supporting them to be the best they can be. You will join our dedicated ready meals team, who produce outstanding food using the finest and freshest ingredients in this highly innovative corporate environment. We put our dedication to fabulous food in the spotlight to showcase what our talented team can do!

The Ideal candidate will have proven experience in a similar environment. This role is not purely culinary and offers a varied workload so you will be happy to split your work and have excellent organisational and time management skills.

What you will do

• Enthusiastically share Piata9’s vision, to create and spread joy in the world, every day, with good food and surprising experiences
• Work in partnership with the New Product Development Lead to deliver high quality food to the brand standard
• Managing Piata9’s production kitchen
• Training and management of team members who will work alongside you as the project grows.
• Preparing and cooking food for our ready to cook and ready to eat convenience lines
• Ensuring a safe and clean workspace
• Manage the food production plan and P&L within the agreed budgets and forecasts
• Control food cost and waste
• Identify opportunities for expanding the impact of the Piata9 brand

This role will be full time and flexible working will be required. Shifts will be communicated and agreed with your line manager. Working hours will be based on a Monday to Saturday week, Sundays are for rest.

Key Skills

• Qualification in culinary arts, or similar is desired, but not essential
• Impeccable culinary skills
• P&L experience
• Strong financial awareness and understanding of budgets
• HACCP training is desirable
• Good communication skills
• Able to manage teams of people whilst being a team player
• Delivering great customer experience through their own passion for food
• Passion for food and service delivery
• Hold references from previous relevant employments
• A commitment to the values of Piata9 and an interest in food waste management issues

Piata9 is a small organisation with big ambitions! You will be required to get involved in supporting all aspects in the development of the organisation, which may include ad hoc projects and events. This will also provide longer term career development opportunities.

Benefits

• The role will be based at our permanent kitchen in Oradea
• We are very proud of our organisation culture, and our vision, mission and values which you can read more about on our website and social media channels.
• We are a fast growing organisation with big ambitions – there will be plenty of opportunity to grow and develop professionally in this role through training and experience.
• Competitive salary based on skills and experience