Description

Summary

About Us:

Miquill is a specialist school catering business born in 2009 out of a passion for great tasting food -We're all about providing fresh, delicious and exciting meals that bring a healthy dose of fun to the school day.

We are a small, independent, Midlands-based company with a family feel, and focus on building strong relationships with our teams and clients. This means that our employees, their wellbeing and the opportunities for development and growth within the business are extremely important to us. We reward our teams and recognise their hard work to make sure they feel happy and valued in their role.

Firstly, the happiness of our employees is of utmost importance to us, our friendly kitchen environments will make you feel supported and part of a family.

The role:

As the Chef Manager you will have full operational and financial responsibility for your schools catering facility, focusing on delivering the highest quality of food and service as well as having the flair, originality and the ability to make this one of the best school catering offers in the area.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading, developing, coaching, training, and motivating the team in your kitchen
• Having full control of the catering operation including stock, food, and labour costs
• Ensuring consistency of food and service standards delivered to the students and staff
• Driving sales through monthly promotions and added value events
• Managing and improving all controllable costs
• Overseeing menu development
• Maintaining company systems & procedures, and legislation
• Carrying out regular audits to ensure standards are being met

About you

We are looking for somebody who shares their passion for serving great tasting food and providing excellent service, maintaining the highest standards at all times, along with the following:

• OND or HND qualified (not a deal-breaker but would be advantageous)
• Craft based experience using fresh ingredients
• Knowledge of health and safety practises
• Financial understanding of gross profit management and achieving sales targets
• Line management experience
• Experience within a similar environment

Why apply?

Firstly, fantastic hours. You'll work Monday to Friday during school term time meaning more time with friends and family and no working at Christmas

This role is:

• 40 hours per week - with no late nights
• Working 39 weeks per year based around term time - what could you do with all that time off?
• £25,000 per annum

You'll also benefit from:

• Working for a fast growing, ambitious company. There is no ceiling here in terms of where you can take your career
• A dedicated L&D team to support you in developing your skills including apprenticeships and training courses that are available for everyone.

Please note, we expect all staff to share our commitment of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children/young people and an enhanced DBS disclosure will be sought by the company.