Chef
| Posting date: | 11 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £14.50 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 December 2025 |
| Location: | Newtownards, BT23 4TU |
| Company: | Sodexo Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | SDX/TP/2361181/151730 |
Summary
- Full time | Permanent
- £14.50 per hour
- 35 - 37.5 hours per week
- Monday - Friday
- Working Hours: 7.00 am -2.30 pm (+ need to be available to cover Breakfast shift during annual leave to start at 6.30 am) [shift pattern may vary]
- Opportunities for career development
- Plus our Sodexo employee benefits package
Chef
Belfast Road, Newtownards, Co. Down - Full time - Permanent
A recipe for success; Serve incredible food, enjoy incredible perks.
At Sodexo, you’ll be part of a supportive team where your talent is celebrated and your career can truly flourish.Our chefs are at the heart of the experience we deliver—creating fresh, nutritious, high-quality food that leaves a lasting impression on our clients, customers, and colleagues.
This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled chef looking to take the next step in their career.You’ll gain hands-on experience running day-to-day operations, leading a team, and supporting client relationships—making this the ideal role for someone who wants natural progression into full kitchen management and unit leadership.
You’ll work with well-known corporate clients, producing delicious, innovative food for workplace dining and on-site hospitality events—all in a fast-paced, modern, customer-focused environment.
What you'll do:
- Prepare and cook high-quality breakfast, lunch, hospitality, and bakery items following menus, recipes, and portion guidelines
- Deliver excellent service in an open-kitchen environment, engaging with customers professionally and politely
- Maintain full compliance with food safety, allergen, COSHH, HACCP, and health & safety regulations
- Lead, motivate, and support the kitchen team, supervising daily operations and managing the unit in the Business Manager’s absence
- Ensure all cleaning schedules, hygiene standards, and statutory procedures are consistently followed
- Manage stock control, ordering, deliveries, and storage, minimising waste and supporting sustainability targets
- Assist with menu planning, recipe development, and continuous improvement of food quality
- Carry out cash-handling duties, including closing down tills and safe responsibility, ensuring accuracy and compliance
What you'll bring:
- NVQ Level 2/3 in Catering (or equivalent) and 2–3 years’ experience in a catering or kitchen environment (essential)
- Supervisory Level 3 Food Safety and Health & Safety qualification (desirable)
- Strong baking and general cooking skills with a genuine passion for food and quality service
- Experience supervising staff and maintaining high operational standards
- Excellent understanding of allergen control, HACCP, COSHH and safe food-handling practices
- Good IT skills for stock management, temperature recording, and site documentation
- Strong communication skills with a customer-focused approach
- Reliability, professionalism, and the ability to work calmly and effectively in a fast-paced environment
Why Sodexo?:
Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater.
Belong in a company and team that values you for you.
Act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.
Thrive in your own way.
We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:
- Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support
- An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
- Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
- Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular big-brand retailers
- Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
- Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
- Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
- Sodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policies
A little more about Sodexo:
At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all.As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer.We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.
We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer.We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.
Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.
Ready to be part of something greater?
Feed our customers and we’ll fuel your career.
Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications