Executive Chef - Food Manufacturing

An Executive Chef is wanted for a fantastic Indian Ready Meal production facility in West London. It's to head up the production chef team over four sites (three within walking distance from one another) creating chilled ready meal and snack products to major food retailers such as Sainsbury's, Morrison's, Waitrose, M&S and Aldi.

This illusive opportunity to join such a hugely successful business that produces more than two million meals and snacks daily is certainly an attractive one for any aspirational Chef. This is a superb business with real family traditions who for decades has been open minded and inclusive of various cultures from the local community.

With community spirit at the heart of this workplace, you will be able to manage a career advancement in one of the nation's most sought after Indian and Oriental ready meal manufacturers.

This factory kitchen are genuine innovators, whilst also being custodians of classic Indian household favourites. As you work with some of the leading New Product Development talents the sector has to offer, you will be integral in bringing the latest in culinary flair and subcontinent trends to the homes of Britain.

The role of Executive Chef is ideal if you value your career and free time. Working with a large number of Chef operatives and factory personnel you will utilise all of your management qualities and take ownership of continuous improvement and lean methodology. Working mostly morning shifts with occasional afternoons you are not asked to work long hours or weekends and evenings. This role can offer real work-life balance with a view of career progression.

You'll thrive here if you...
- Can lead Chefs to work as efficiently and methodically as possible
- Have a deep rooted fascination within Indian cuisine,
- Have been educated through years of successful high end restaurant and hotel experience
- Have excellent planning skills
- Understand the challenges that need to be overcome when producing 100,000's of meal units on a daily basis.

A position like this doesn't present itself often, so if you have an ambition to be part of a world-wide serious food player for the foreseeable future, please send me your details for immediate consideration.

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