Commis Chef

Role overview

As a Commis Chef, you will support kitchen food production across assigned duties, helping deliver consistent variety, innovation, and choice while ensuring all food is prepared and handled safely in line with food safety standards.

The position is flexible and may change according to business needs. Day-to-day work can involve multiple catering environments and may extend to both kitchen and customer-facing tasks when required.

Key duties

• Work under the Chef de Partie as part of a team across different catering outlets.
• Prepare food for a busy customer café, restaurant, and hospitality events.
• Maintain strong knowledge of all menu items being served.
• Coordinate with the Chef de Partie and Sous Chef on food production to reduce waste.
• Support the team in maintaining food availability, quality, and brand standards.
• Follow Aramark food hygiene, health, and safety expectations, and report any issues or incidents to management.
• Assist with post-analysis tasks as required.
• Help complete shift opening and closing checklists with the wider kitchen team.
• Learn and apply procedures and standards for all kitchen tasks.
• Complete any necessary training relevant to the role.
• When needed, carry out back-of-house and front-of-house duties based on operational demands.

Requirements

• Prior experience in a food production role in catering or retail.
• Strong spoken English.
• Ability to follow instructions and perform well under supervision.
• Self-driven, adaptable, flexible, and able to communicate clearly.
• Commitment to excellent customer service.
• Ability to prioritise work and delegate where appropriate.
• Capacity to work effectively without close supervision.
• Strong focus on quality.
• Good teamworking skills.
• Sense of ownership and accountability.
• Basic understanding of catering finance concepts such as costing, production, yields, and wastage.
• Ability to enter collected data into a food production management system.
• Competence in maintaining a range of operational and general records.

Additional information

This role may involve duties beyond the core kitchen responsibilities depending on business requirements. The successful candidate is expected to adapt to changing priorities and support both front-of-house and back-of-house operations as needed.

Food safety and standards

You will be expected to work in a way that supports high standards of food safety, hygiene, and compliance at all times.