Executive Chef

4 days ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Loungers Full time

Job Title: Executive Chef

Job Description

  • About the Role

    As a key member of the kitchen team, you will be responsible for supporting the Head Chef in leading and engaging the kitchen staff to deliver exceptional food standards and customer experiences.

    You will be expected to lead shifts, ensuring the kitchen runs efficiently and safely, with a strong focus on stock management, Health and Safety, and hygiene protocols.

    The Good Stuff

    • Overtime pay for every hour worked over contracted hours
    • Staff food on every shift
    • 50% off staff discount to enjoy outside working hours from day one
    • Paid breaks
    • 28 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays) pro rata
    • Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after 2 years service
    • The most talked-about staff party in hospitality - Loungefest
    • Competitions and incentives (like jetting off on an all-expenses-paid trip with one of our suppliers)
    • Company pension scheme
    • Long service awards
    • Power over your pay with Wagestream
    • Emotional and practical support via the Licenced Trade Charity
    • Great opportunity for personal development and career progression in a fast-growing business
    • Achievable bonuses
    • Tips shared equally across the team, based on hours worked
    • Christmas and Boxing Day off

    What You’ll Bring

    • You are an existing Sous Chef or a Junior Sous Chef/Assistant Kitchen Manager looking to take the next step in your career.
    • You have experience working with fresh ingredients and can demonstrate good chef/kitchen skills (food prep hot and cold, cleaning, knife skills, good hygiene practices)
    • Your work ethic is rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in, leading from the front, and playing an active role in delivering excellent kitchen and food standards as part of a high-performing team.
    • Extremely driven and relentless at deconstructing the can’t mentality.
    • Familiar with KPIs and making decisions in the absence of the Head Chef, considering labour, stock, food safety requirements, and others.
    • Epic communication skills with the ability to manage stakeholders and build rapport and trust (with our Ops Chefs and Ops Managers).
    • Strong knowledge of best practice around rota scheduling, sales, and labour forecasts, reporting, recruitment, HR, etc.
    • You have demonstrated successful delivery of training and recruitment for kitchen teams, including Apprentices, KPs, Chefs, Junior Sous Chefs, and Sous Chefs.

    About Us

    If you want to find out more about us, follow us on LinkedIn or @life.at.lounge on TikTok.

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