Head Chef

Artisan bakery

Fun and friendly team

Opportunities to further your career

Full-time

We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate Chef to join our team at our Wynyard Quarter Store, Auckland CBD. Tuck Shop is an artisan bakery with a passion for creating superior baked products and want to show everyday Kiwis how good bread, sandwiches, pastries and baked goods can be. We currently make a range of artisan baked breads, sourdoughs, sandwiches, pastries and sweet baked treats in a local bakery setting that references the nostalgia of quality baked goods that we grew up with.

We are currently looking for a new Head Chef to manage our kitchen team based in our Wynyard Quarter store.

The position will

• require food preparation, cooking breakfast, making sandwiches and making sandwich and pie fillings.
• Menu creation - create and test new menu items - we change items on our menu regularly
• Managing the kitchen staff and rosters, recruiting new staff and managing staff performance
• Manage relationship with suppliers and find cheaper and better quality ingredients
• Ensuring standards of service and quality are consistently met
• Maintaining appropriate stock levels.

The ideal candidate will need to have

• Extensive experience as a chef
• Ideally experience managing staff / a kitchen (but will consider applicants without this experience)
• A strong work ethic and be prepared to to go above and beyond when times require.
• A fun, friendly and positive attitude

If this sounds like you, please apply now