Catering Kitchen Manager

About the role 

You'll be responsible for:  

• Growing and nurturing people and relationships – you'll support your high-performance catering team to do their thing to the highest standards. You’ll facilitate the workplace training experience for STREAT’s young trainees within your team, supported by our dedicated youth programs team. You'll build strong relationships with suppliers and customers and maintain open and cooperative relationships with all teams within STREAT.
• Menu and product development – you'll work closely with the Executive Chef to develop and implement new products for the catering menu. This will include developing, testing, costing, and creating standardised recipes and documentation.
• Kitchen operations and food production – coordinating the daily delivery and production of food from STREAT's catering and production kitchens, managing the systems and processes within the kitchen and maintaining stock and inventory, and keeping records of all products made. There’s also a lot of prep and making a lot of sandwiches and salads!
• Quality control – you’ll be responsible for ensuring all products leaving the kitchen are produced to your exacting standards, and for providing your team with the tools and skills they need to consistently perform to those standards.
• Health and safety – ensuring that all your people operate within a supportive, safe and secure environment. 
• Supply chain ethics – working with the Executive Chef to ensure STREAT's produce is sourced, prepared, served and disposed of in a way which is in line with our values and minimises environmental harm and maximises its social impact. 
• Working in the kitchen – this role works out of our Collingwood headquarters, Mon-Fri, 5am-1pm.

What we offer: 

• Meaning and purpose – as a social enterprise, STREAT is a purpose-driven organisation and recognised as leading in social innovation. What you will do in your role will make a difference every day to the lives of marginalised young people.
• 11% superannuation and salary packaging benefits – as a registered charity, STREAT offers income tax benefits through salary sacrifice options (Including: General Expense Reimbursement, Meals & Entertainment Cards, Novated Leasing, and workplace expenses i.e., laptop). 
• Annual leave – ability to increase additional annual leave each year (up to 6 weeks). 
• Discounts – One free coffee every day, plus discounted meals, and coffee at the café. 
• Professional development – access to regular staff training, free quarterly professional development sessions, such as: Difficult Conversations, Mental Health First Aid, Gender and Sexual Diversity, Trauma-Informed Practice, and loads more. We invest in you and provide opportunities to up-skill in your specific areas of need/interest. 
• Personal development and support – Free access to professional counselling and wellbeing services via an Employee Assistance Program (EAP). 
• Awesome team and culture – A supportive and friendly team that is always there to support you. STREAT has a deliberately inclusive, energetic and creative work culture. 

About you 

We’d love for you to have: 

• Lots of kitchen experience. 
• A genuine passion for catering and hospitality. 
• Excellent leadership and motivational skills. 
• A track record of managing COGs and wage targets. 
• Experience in establishing and maintaining systems and processes.
• Good all-round knowledge of Melbourne’s food and coffee culture. 
• At least 3 years’ experience in a similar role. 
• Recognised commercial cookery training.
• Experience in corporate catering preferred.

About STREAT  

STREAT is a Melbourne-based social enterprise that supports marginalised young people with a healthy self, healthy job and healthy home. The organisation runs a portfolio of hospitality businesses where young people get their workplace training, and customers get amazing food and coffee. Learn more on our website. 

About our team 

We’re a team of over 90 staff – mainly baristas and chefs – but also youth workers, social workers and a bunch of admin and support staff. Our team has four key traits: We dream big about changing the world, we’re creative in how we try and solve problems, we all roll up our sleeves and get stuff done - and we have fun doing it!  

As part of STREAT's onboarding policy, you will require a current Victorian Working with Children Check prior to commencement. Any cost to you will be reimbursed by us. 

How to apply for this job 

Please send us your CV and a cover letter outlining why you want to work with us and apply via the link provided. 

We’re thrilled that you found this job, and we know that this position is bound to appeal to lots of fantastic people. Please understand that only suitable candidates will be contacted. If this doesn’t end up being you then best of luck finding your next challenge!