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Chefs and Kitchen Assistants Wanted in Karlskoga

Karlskoga kommun

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In picturesque Karlskoga, exciting things are happening right now. In our city, you are always close to both beautiful nature and the high-tech industrial sector. We offer you a welcoming workplace where people and innovations can grow. Welcome to a meaningful job where you can truly make a difference!

Karlskoga municipality works with competence-based recruitment aimed at recognizing each person's skills and thus counteracting discrimination.

The Community Building and Service Administration operates under a trust-based leadership model where governance, culture, and working methods focus on trusting employees' knowledge, judgment, and willingness to perform well and meet citizens' needs. In the administration, we actively work to strengthen team spirit, create a good working environment, and improve our working methods. All employees participate in this improvement work with the goal of being an efficient and cohesive team that enjoys and develops at work.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

We are now looking for flexible and driven chefs and kitchen assistants who want to work as substitutes in our production kitchens in Karlskoga. Do you want to help prepare delicious and healthy meals in a wonderful team? Then this is for you!

Working as a substitute is a great way to try out the profession, gain work experience, or combine work with studies.

You will work alone or in a team in one of our reception or production kitchens. In all our kitchens, food is prepared with care and with the guest in focus. The tasks vary greatly depending on where you work and how large the kitchen is. Some work occurs in digital systems such as Mashie, Proceedo, Time Care Pool, Outlook, Teams, which is why it is important that you have basic computer skills. Good communication is a prerequisite in the kitchen, and some documentation is involved in the work.

Chef

We prepare meals for the youngest and oldest, as well as for school students. As a chef, you are part of the whole and work in a team with kitchen assistants. You love cooking and are happy to contribute your knowledge to create flavorful and varied meals that meet the needs of the target group. Other common tasks in the kitchen include washing dishes and daily cleaning routines.

Kitchen Assistant

As a kitchen assistant, you work in a team with the chefs and play an important role in developing our salad buffet, welcoming our guests in the restaurant, and ensuring that the environment is inviting. Our production kitchens also send meals to other units. Other common tasks in the kitchen include washing dishes and daily cleaning routines.

Working hours vary, Monday to Friday from 07:00 to 15:30, and some kitchens also have weekend work at the same time. We use the booking system Time Care Pool, where you as a substitute can input your availability and also see your booked shifts. As a substitute, you can be booked at short notice, and you should also be able to work across the entire administration area.

QUALIFICATIONS

Those applying for the chef position should have appropriate upper secondary education or other vocational training in restaurant and large-scale catering. Experience deemed equivalent by the employer can compensate for the education requirement.

If you are applying for the kitchen assistant position, it is advantageous if you have training in meals, restaurant, or other training deemed equivalent by the employer.

To succeed in the role, we believe you are a taste-sensitive and engaged employee who is flexible, meticulous, and quality-conscious, even when the pace is high. You are attentive and can work both independently and together with your colleagues.

You should have language skills so that you can understand, speak, read, and write Swedish. You also need to have basic computer skills.

It is advantageous if you have:

  • Experience working in large kitchens and/or restaurants
  • A driving license (B) and access to your own car

Last but not least, we certainly want you to have a passion for cooking and making your guests happy! We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

OTHER

We have ongoing selection and interviews in this recruitment.

If you have protected personal information, do not register your application documents in our recruitment system. Instead, contact PA support (HR department) at tel: 0586-610 55 for further handling.

Karlskoga municipality is part of the Finnish administrative area and thus has a responsibility to safeguard the status of the Finnish language. This means, among other things, that we must offer preschool activities and elderly care in Finnish.

We kindly decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.

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