Vacant job

Falkenberg is a city on the attractive west coast that is in constant development. We are building new residential areas, developing our businesses, and more and more people are choosing to move here. There are also good opportunities to commute to Falkenberg. Being employed with us means many opportunities with a chance to grow and develop regardless of career choice. We want to create a sustainable future for our environment, our employees, for our children, youth, and the elderly. We believe that Falkenberg municipality as a workplace becomes better through diversity and therefore seek people with different backgrounds and experiences.

Within Falkenberg municipality, a smoke-free working time is applied, and you have the opportunity to take part in our wellness grant.

Meal Falkenberg, which is part of the Service Administration, is looking for knowledgeable and engaged employees in our mission to contribute to a better everyday life for the municipality's residents and businesses. Would you like to help develop our meals through your professional and resource-efficient working methods by contributing to good and nutritious food that provides ecological, economic, and social sustainability?

Meal Falkenberg has about 60 kitchens, of which about 30 are production kitchens and the remaining are reception or serving kitchens. We have around 160 employees, and we prepare food for schools, preschools, and high schools, as well as users within SärBo. Our kitchens prepare a total of approximately 7000 lunch portions per day.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Are you passionate about service and putting the guest at the center? Then the position of chef at Dals ängars preschool is for you. Here, food is prepared, including special diets. As a chef, you are involved in ensuring that production runs smoothly, that food is served on time and with the right quality, and you are curious and like to be at the forefront of sustainable cooking. You have a positive attitude and value dialogue with the educational activities, which promotes effective collaboration between the kitchen and the departments as well as the unit's development. Other tasks include administrative duties such as self-control, orders, work environment, and some invoicing. You will also perform assistant duties such as serving, dishwashing, kitchen cleaning, goods reception, and vegetable preparation. Food waste and sustainability are issues we work on daily, which we consider very important, and therefore we see that you are inventive, rational, and flexible. You should enjoy the challenge of being creative within set frameworks in food choices and menu planning.

QUALIFICATIONS

You have a restaurant education at the high school level or similar and several years of experience working as a chef. Food and cooking are close to your heart, and you share our opinion that meals are an important part of everyday life. Basic knowledge of special diets is a prerequisite. As a person, you are responsible, take initiative, have the ability to be flexible, and deliver good quality in a fast-paced environment.

You are proficient in Microsoft 365 and Teams as this is the environment we work in regarding digitalization. We use the meal planning program Mashie for recipes and Marketplace/Raindance for ordering and invoicing. You need to have good knowledge of the Food Agency's hygiene regulations and recommendations and be familiar with HACCP. Your ability to understand and use the Swedish language, both orally and in writing, is very good.

The job requires good physical condition in terms of strength, endurance, and mobility, and we therefore believe that you maintain your health through some form of exercise and a healthy lifestyle. We value the qualities that a balanced age and gender distribution as well as ethnic and cultural diversity bring to the organization. Therefore, we welcome applicants who contribute to this.

Within our operations in schools and preschools, the law on background checks (SFS 2000:873) applies. Since the position's placement may change, we ask applicants to provide a digital extract from the criminal record.

Read more about the criminal record here. (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/)

OTHER

As a permanent chef within Falkenberg municipality, you will be placed in a war position. The war placement means that you are obliged to serve at your regular workplace in Falkenberg municipality if the government decides on heightened preparedness. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability. The position is filled under the condition that it does not need to be claimed by already existing staff. It is desirable that the criminal record extract is ready as any employment cannot take place until this is presented. To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Falkenberg municipality, we use the recruitment tool Visma Recruit. Therefore, we ask you to submit your application via Visma Recruit by clicking on the application link in the ad. If you are applying for a job and have protected personal information, you should contact the recruiting manager in the ad who will guide you further for a secure application process. You should not apply digitally via the application link.

In connection with this recruitment, we kindly ask for no contacts from recruitment companies and other advertisers.