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Job Title: Chef Manager
Hourly Rate of Pay: £15.89
Position Type: Permanent
Type of Employment: Full Time
Total Weekly Contractual Hours: 40
Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday (7:00 AM – 3:00 PM)
Location: B&Q, Distribution Centre, Symmetry Park, Symmetry Way, Blyth, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, S81 8PU
Note: Applicant must be comfortable with additional shift cover until 7.30pm
We are seeking a passionate and experienced Chef Manager to lead our dynamic kitchen team at Blyth B&Q Distribution Centre. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and has a genuine flair for creating fresh, nutritious meals paired with outstanding service. As Chef Manager, you will oversee the day-to-day operations of the kitchen, ensuring smooth service and high standards at all times.
You will be responsible for planning and preparing balanced meals for staff, maintaining strict food hygiene and safety standards, and managing stock, budgets, and supplier relationships. A key part of your role will be to lead, inspire, and motivate the catering team to deliver excellence consistently.
The ideal candidate will have proven experience in a similar role, strong leadership and organisational skills, and a minimum of Food Hygiene Level 2 certification. Most importantly, you'll bring a passion for quality food and a commitment to exceptional customer service.
28 days paid holiday and Double time for Bank Holidays
Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.
Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10, - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .