GLIDE House Chef

At Gripple Ltd, an employee-owned and B Corp™ certified company and MX Awards Manufacturer of the Year 2022, we design, manufacture, and sell innovative, patented products for the construction, agriculture, solar and infrastructure markets.

In 2017, Gripple and the GLIDE companies purchased and renovated the old Players’ House on Attercliffe Common, an old iconic Grade II listed building in front of Sheffield Arena, originally built as a school in 1874. Known as GLIDE House, the first floor is a training academy with space to host various meetings and conferences. The lower floor is GLIDE's ‘social club’, with a bar and a kitchen, preparing and serving food to employees across all GLIDE company sites.

We are now looking to recruit an additional, full-time chef to support the kitchen team.

What is the role?

We are looking for a chef who loves to cook great food. The successful candidate will need to work alongside the head chef and sous chef to manage daily kitchen tasks, aiding with menu preparation, ensuring food quality and freshness, monitoring orders, and stock levels. They will also need to provide meal quality and consistency by following food specification. Reporting to the GLIDE House Manager, the role will involve:

• overseeing and organising kitchen stock and ingredients
• ensuring a first-in, first-out food rotation system and verifying all food products are properly dated and organised for quality assurance
• keeping cooking stations stocked, especially before and during prime operation hours
• managing all temperature and food hygiene regulations and to complete daily paperwork.
• supervising all food preparation and presentation to ensure quality and restaurant standards
• Cooking food in large volumes to a quality standard.
• verifying that food storage units all meet standards and are consistently well-managed
• assisting the head chef with menu creation
• coordinating with the management team on supply chain, budget and kitchen efficiency and staffing

Working hours

Monday to Friday (4-5 weekends a year)

• Morning Shift – 05.30 – 14:00
• Afternoon Shift - 10:00 - 18:30

Who you are

You will need to be a chef with a can-do attitude in all the areas mentioned above, with a passion for ‘all things food’ and a real love of cooking. Taking pride in achieving the highest levels of cleanliness and health and safety and able to work well under pressure and take control when needed, you must also have:

• formal culinary training and restaurant industry knowledge
• An appetite to learn new skills within the kitchen.
• previous restaurant experience
• strong organisational skills and attention to detail
• self-motivation, with a positive and enthusiastic attitude
• the ability to work under pressure
• Good timekeeper
• Work as part of a team
• Excellent people skills are required to maintain positive relationships with staff and customers.
• strong verbal and written communication skills
• A full clean driving license
• knowledge of COSHH and HACCAP

What we will offer in return

We recognise every individual as a unique person with their own special contribution to make. We work hard to make sure our people are happy and healthy, with a good work/life balance, and generously rewarded for their time, energy, and commitment. We therefore offer:​

• competitive salary
• share ownership scheme
• excellent initial and ongoing training and support
• generous holiday entitlement
• life assurance
• private individual health care
• permanent health insurance scheme
• Paycare health plan
• non-contributory 15% pension scheme
• enhanced family policy 
• gym membership

Why choose Gripple?

As an employee-owned company, our people are front and centre. You can therefore expect to see:

• Commitment to core values and behaviours, AKA the ‘Gripple Spirit’
• Work-life balance
• Career development
• Exceptional benefits
• Unique working environment
• Commitment to net zero in 2030

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Deadline for applications:  Wednesday 14^th August 2024 

Equal employment opportunity

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued with a sense of belonging. If there are any adjustments that would help your experience with Gripple, please let us know when you apply.

Whilst not mandatory, your completion of the applicant ethnic monitoring form will help us monitor and encourage equality and diversity. The information you provide will be anonymous and kept both confidential and separate to your application.

A polite note for recruitment agencies:​We do not accept applicants from recruitment agencies. If we do need support, we will be in touch! 

Before you apply

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