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About the Role

Dishpatch collaborates with the UK's top chefs to deliver restaurant creations to food enthusiasts nationwide. We are looking for a Production Chef passionate about food with experience in fast-paced fine dining, high-volume catering, or production kitchens. The ideal candidate will manage their own workflow, prioritize tasks, and collaborate effectively with the team. This role typically manages weekly production of menu components with minimal supervision and supports planning and production leads.

Responsibilities

Working with our Production Team to produce exceptional quality food for our finish-at-home meal kits each week
Ensuring smooth and efficient running of your section while delivering menu components under the supervision of the Production Lead
Carefully following our set out recipe specs and driving consistency
Keeping a clean and neat working space while producing large volumes of food
Maintaining strict health and hygiene standards
Keeping a proactive and collaborative approach

Requirements

Extensive experience in a Chef de Partie role or similar in a quality-led high volume restaurant, event catering or production kitchen
Wide knowledge of cooking and production techniques
Attention to detail and high quality standards
Keen interest in cooking and learning about a wide range of cuisines
Proficient in Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles

Location

North Greenwich, London, SE10 0AT

Work Type

Full time
Fixed term contract for 6 months

Experience Level

Partnership Level 8

Salary/Compensations

Salary up to £39,700 depending on experience
£39,700.00 - £62,200.00 Annual

Benefits

Night Premium at a rate of £4.75 per hour for time worked between 22:00 - 06:00

About the Company

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose.
We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world.
We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify.
As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards.
We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.
We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong.
Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE.
Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.
As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.
At the John Lewis Partnership we’re not just employees; we’re co-owners, and that’s why we’re called Partners.
Being a Partner means not only do we all collectively share the responsibilities of being the UK’s largest employee-owned business, but we also share in its rewards and successes.
It’s this ownership model that makes the Partnership a very unique place to work.

Equal Opportunity

It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates).
If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays.
Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.
We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.
We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working.
This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible.
Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.