Sous Chef
- Lead and mentor a team of chefs in a high-volume kitchen environment.
- Contribute to menu design and ensure quality and consistency in food preparation.
- Manage kitchen operations, including stock control and compliance with food safety standards.
Wests Group Macarthur is a leading and progressive hospitality group in Sydney’s South-West, operating multiple venues across the Macarthur region. With strong connection to local community and an exciting pipeline of development projects, we are continuing to grow and evolve our offering to deliver exceptional experiences for our 100,000+ members and guests.
We’re on the hunt for a passionate and driven Sous Chef to step into a key leadership role and help lead our kitchen team, shape menus, and deliver outstanding dining experiences across our venues. Working alongside a culinary brigade of more than 50 chefs across our venues, you'll have the opportunity to lead, mentor and develop chefs at all stages of their careers.
If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy developing others, and take pride in consistency, quality, and creativity, we’d love to hear from you.
About the Role
As Sous Chef, you’ll be the right hand to our Head Chefs, playing a critical role in leading daily kitchen operations, mentoring your team, and ensuring every dish meets our high standards. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will:
- Drive quality, consistency, and presentation across all services.
- Be actively involved in preparing and cooking high quality dishes, leading from the front during service.
- Support and step into kitchen leadership during Head Chef absences.
- Creatively contribute to menu design, specials and seasonal innovation.
- Lead, coach and develop a skilled and engaged kitchen team.
- Monitor food production to ensure exceptional standards at all times.
- Manage stock, ordering, cost control and support stocktakes.
- Maintain the highest standards of food safety, hygiene and compliance.
- Work collaboratively with front-of-house, functions and events teams.
What You’ll Bring
We’re looking for someone who combines strong technical ability with confident leadership. You will also:
- Be a trade qualified Chef with solid commercial kitchen experience.
- Have proven ability to lead, motivate and develop teams.
- Have experience working in high-volume hospitality environments.
- Have a strong understanding of food safety, WHS and kitchen compliance.
- Have excellent communication, organisation and time management skills.
- Have the ability to perform under pressure while maintaining a positive team culture.
- Have a genuine passion for food, people, and delivering great experiences.
- Have a current driver’s licence and flexibility to work across a rotating roster including weekends and public holidays.
What We Offer
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a business experiencing strong growth and play a key role in shaping the future of our culinary offering. We offer:
- A supportive and values-driven culture.
- Professional development opportunities.
- Exposure to multi-venue operations.
- Fantastic employee benefits including uniforms, parking, meals, golf, tennis, pickleball, wellbeing initiatives and employee rewards.
Apply now - If you’re ready to make your mark in a dynamic, growing hospitality group, we’d love to hear from you.
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