Launceston CBD – Senior Chef

Job Description

Diverge Restaurant, where local produce is presented across a simple, honest menu… enjoy Tasmania on a plate!

I am opening an opportunity for a Senior Chef to join our brigade. We operate breakfast and dinner 365 (employee implications being to achieve full time hours split shifts are required). Non-negotiable is a commitment to Saturday and Sunday dinner service. How you build hours thereafter is open for discussion for casual, PPT or FT to suit your lifestyle.

Food provenance is important to you as is the story you talk to in plating up for our guests. You would have appropriate qualifications, ie Certificate IV or Diploma in Commercial Cookery, and current Food Safety Supervisor qualifications. Also, you MUST live in Launceston, can work legally in Australia, and have transport to work. Im not sponsoring visas, attending to relocation, accepting 8 week travelling, or 6 month working holiday applicants.

Key duties include:

Come and have some fun at work; we keep it professional but treat our guests as we would if they were invited into our own home.
Cooking and preparing food
Developing a menu engineering with Chef
Purchasing ingredients
Demonstrating cooking techniques and procedures
Maintaining hygiene standards (yes this includes doing dishes)
Managing an efficient kitchen workflow
Supervising other cooks and kitchen staff
Using and maintaining kitchen equipment

Diverge Restaurant is located in the lobby of Hotel Verge Launceston. Proudly Tasmanian.