Commis Chef

• Part Time
• 28 hours per week
• 5 days over 7, weekends included
• £13.50 per hour
• Site Specific Benefits
• Opportunities for career development
• Plus our Sodexo employee benefits package

Commis Chef, Liverpool, L24 9JW

A recipe for success; Serve incredible food, enjoy incredible perks.

At Sodexo, you'll belong in a team and thrive in service. We know that our talented chefs are the key to delivering exceptional service and tasteful experiences for our clients, customers, and employees.

Build a name with big-brand businesses and corporate clients, delivering high-quality nutritious meals for boardroom lunches, executive events, and daily workplace dining. This role calls for a chef who can blend maintaining excellent standards, while working efficiently in a fast-paced, trend-setting, client-focused environment.

What you'll do

• To provide excellent food service in all aspects of services provided to the client and Sodexo satisfaction in a safe, hygiene, clean and tidy environment for the production and service of food.
• To manage the food preparation and the kitchen to help achieve budget and financial targets
• To assist in achieving highest levels of internal and external audits
• To prepare, cook and serve all food items in line with the service offer and as per training
• To ensure that all food is prepared with due care and attention following recipe cards, particularly regarding customers’ special dietary requirements: for example, the key 14 allergens and PPDS and calorific values
• Manage the quality and hygiene of the food cycle from delivery to service
• Be proactive in managing stock, reducing waste,
• Ensure that all equipment used is in safe working order and checked regularly. Report any faults to management and ensure they are rectified and ensure equipment is not used until safe.
• Put forward ideas for service, menu plans
• Hold daily briefings with the FSA
• Ensure all areas in Sodexo control are clean and hygienic at all times, ensure team carry out cleaning duties as per cleaning schedules or as directed
• Comply with all Company and Client policies and procedures, statutory regulations relating to your workplace, this will include but not limited to fire; health and safety; food hygiene; working safely; CoSHH.

What you'll bring

• Proven experience as a Chef in a high volume setting
• Professional cookery or culinary qualifications
• Strong organisational skills with an ability to prioritise tasks
• Commitment to maintaining the highest food safety and hygiene standards
• Food hygiene and safety qualification/certification
• Previous experience in hotel or restaurant kitchens
• Experience in fast pasted kitchen & team supervisory experience beneficial

Why Sodexo?

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater.

Belong

in a company and team that values you for you. 

Act

with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.

Thrive

in your own way.

We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
• Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
• Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular big-brand retailers
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
• Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
• Sodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policies

A little more about Sodexo

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly 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 Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.

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 run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

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

Ready to be part of something greater?

Feed our customers and we’ll fuel your career.

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