Kitchen Manager for the Food Unit in Mullsjö Municipality

Mullsjö Municipality is small in size but offers great quality of life. Here, you can enjoy an active outdoor life with fish-rich lakes, scenic views, and miles of hiking and cycling trails. Unique industrial environments, churches, art, and theater, combined with a vibrant business and community life, create a lively and growing municipality. In Mullsjö Municipality, we work closely together to succeed based on three focus areas: Safety, Togetherness, and Growth.

The Food Unit in Mullsjö Municipality offers a work environment with close contact with both colleagues and the residents we serve. Here, the good small-town life and proximity to nature combine with the ability to quickly reach larger cities.

We are responsible for the meal services within the municipality's preschools, schools, and elderly care. Every day, we prepare and serve nutritious and tasty meals to preschool children, school students, restaurant visitors, and the elderly in both home care and our special accommodations.

Our goal is to provide children, youth, and the elderly with a positive dining experience while actively working to improve quality and develop public meals. We aim to inspire joy in food, new flavors, and sustainable eating habits throughout life. Our restaurant is open to the public and has great potential to become a natural meeting place in the municipality.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a kitchen manager who wants more than just to cook good food; you want to create joy in food, community, and a positive dining experience. With us, you will have overall responsibility for both the quality of the food and the continued development of the kitchen in an operation where elderly care meets a restaurant environment.

Together with colleagues, you will help shape an operation that offers both culinary and social satisfaction and contribute to the development of public meals.

In this role, you will be responsible for leading, distributing, and structuring the daily work in the kitchen. You are a present and inspiring leader who supports the kitchen staff in the shared mission.

You will plan and prepare nutritious meals for both elderly care and the restaurant's guests, meeting all visitors with professionalism, joy, and care; you will simply be the restaurant's face to the public.

Together with the team, you will work on everything from menu planning, purchasing, and orders to cooking and development work. You will ensure that food hygiene, self-control, and current laws are followed, and you will be an important driving force in further developing the kitchen and restaurant into an even more welcoming and attractive place.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Several years of experience as a chef, preferably in a leading and operational role.
• Structured and confident in planning operations, staffing, purchasing, and orders, including long-term ordering planning and budget work.
• Good knowledge of HACCP/self-control, special diets, food agreements, and hygiene and safety regulations.
• Communicates clearly and can coordinate between kitchen, management, departments, and external actors.
• Good computer skills and the ability to follow up on staff efforts, finances, and goal fulfillment, as well as report to the food manager.
• Initiative-taking, development-oriented, and driving improvement work together with the work team and meal developers.
• Easy to collaborate, create a good atmosphere, and provide a warm and professional reception.
• Flexible, stress-resistant, and used to reprioritizing when the situation requires it.
• Has a B driver's license as food transportation is required.

Meritorious:

• Education or experience in a leading role within public meal services, particularly in elderly care with responsibility for leading and developing a team.
• Knowledge of sustainability and methods to reduce food waste.
• Experience working with food data systems.

We place great importance on personal suitability.

OTHER

We strive for a balanced gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, welcoming applicants from different backgrounds.

All candidates called for an interview must verify their identity by presenting identification (passport or national ID card issued by the Police Authority) at the time of the interview.

If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must show that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the requirement to have a work permit. In connection with employment, you must also verify your citizenship. You can do this with a passport or a personal certificate along with identification. Employment can only occur after verification of the work permit, which is required under the Aliens Ordinance.

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Warm welcome with your application!