Vacant job

The Care and Social Care Administration is looking for you who want to make a difference! We are responsible for the municipality's elderly and disability care, home healthcare, and the food service unit. With over 1,000 dedicated employees, including assistant nurses, personal assistants, nurses, chefs, and many other important professional groups, we offer a workplace filled with community, engagement, and joy. Here you get the chance to work in a dynamic environment where competence and responsibility are highly valued, and where each day offers new, meaningful challenges.

Ludvika Municipality's Food Service Unit has ambitious goals where cooking from scratch is high on the priority list. The possibilities are unlimited, from schools' work with large-scale kitchen operations, focusing on nutrition science and special diets, to the more restaurant-like kitchens within elderly care, where the fine balance between nutrition and restaurant-quality dishes must be met.

Do you want to spice up life for others - apply as a chef with us!

Are you a chef and passionate about cooking and service? We are looking for substitute chefs who want to help promote a healthy lifestyle with good eating habits for the municipality's primary school students, children, and elderly. Welcome to us!

In the food service unit, approximately 90 chefs work in our 34 kitchens within primary schools, preschools, and elderly care. Every day we prepare approximately 4,400 portions for our diners. All kitchens are preparation kitchens, and we constantly strive for development and to increase the proportion of dishes cooked from scratch. We have the opportunity to purchase a certain amount of locally produced meat. We work with seasonal adaptation and take environmental and climate considerations into account. This requires that you have the knowledge, willingness, education, and engagement needed. We are now looking for substitute chefs who have the desire to be part of the team that continues to develop the meal into one of the highlights of the day for our guests.

The Food Service Unit has three unit managers, each with a geographically divided food area. All three areas have kitchens for primary schools, preschools, and elderly care. There is also a food developer and a operations manager.

Job Responsibilities

• Work in large-scale kitchens with cooking in preschools, primary schools, and elderly care, including all typical large-scale kitchen tasks such as preparation, cooking, serving, baking, dishwashing, cleaning, and receiving goods
• We value collaboration and service and expect you to contribute to a good working environment, for yourself and your colleagues. We do the job together!
• We cook a large part of the food from scratch, and you are responsible for preparing good, nutritious, and safe food according to our guidelines to meet the guest's needs
• In a large-scale kitchen, planning is an important part of the work, and you are expected to be part of this as we always want to stay ahead with planning and preparations for upcoming days
• Ordering goods via a digital purchasing portal
• We use the food data program Matilda for self-control and menus
• Responsibility for handling and preparing special diets
• Be involved and active in the work to reduce waste and food waste

Qualifications

• A genuine interest in the chef profession; you should enjoy cooking good food
• You need to have chef training and/or long experience from working in a professional kitchen
• Good computer skills as we use digital tools in daily work
• You have good knowledge of special diets and feel confident working with them
• Good communication skills in Swedish, both oral and written, are required as you need to be able to read and understand recipes, work according to written routines, write emails, etc. You need to be able to communicate effectively even outside our operations
• A good attitude towards our diners is important, and you should be positive and service-oriented. You should be ambitious, focus on the diners, and want to deliver high quality to them
• Be part of our team spirit, follow our guidelines, and be a good ambassador for Ludvika Municipality and the Food Service Unit

Merits

• A driver's license and access to a car is an advantage for you to be able to travel to different workplaces.
• Specialized knowledge in e.g., bakery, consistency adaptation

What you get from us

In addition to working with exciting questions in a varied daily life, you get the opportunity to become part of an organization that maintains important societal functions for residents in Ludvika Municipality. As an employee, you have access to wellness benefits, good opportunities for competence development, and the ability to exchange vacation day supplements. Please read more on ludvika.se under the heading "Work with us".

In Ludvika Municipality, we work according to our value foundation, "Lagandan" (Team Spirit), which consists of four principles: Relationships, Joy, Learning, and Drive. It is based on collaboration and cooperation, a sense of "we," and a desire to continue developing. It is with "Lagandan" that we take on our mission and strive towards our vision of being the municipality of the future, growth, and opportunities.

Other

To work with children and young people, you must provide an extract from the police's criminal record register §9. The extract will be requested if employment becomes relevant.

Terms of Employment

Day and night work. Intermittent employment. Hourly substitute. Commencement upon agreement. Contractual salary. State salary expectations.

Information

Staffing Unit, tel: 0240-869 80

Union Contact

Kommunal, via the municipality's switchboard tel: 0240-860 00

Application

Welcome to send in your application with CV and cover letter. We only accept applications via our recruitment system. Recruitment of candidates takes place continuously. Therefore, apply today! The last application date is 2026-04-30.

We read all applications, and initial contact will be made via email.

If you have protected personal data, we ask you to contact the Unit Manager for the Staffing Unit: Theres Hedin via the switchboard 0240-860 00.

Interviews may take place via Teams.