Bicicletta Restaurant is located within iconic Peppers Gallery Hotel & New Acton Precinct, and is a favourite amongst Canberra’s for its authentic Italian Cuisine. Our recipe for success remains grounded in a commitment to seasonal produce, provincial dishes, family and community.

The Role

We are currently seeking an ambitious Head Chef to lead our busy operation and mentor our established kitchen brigade.

Reporting to the General Manager, this hands on role will see you hold the following primary responsibilities:

• Lead our Kitchen operation with passion, enthusiasm and creativity
• Seasonal Menu creation ensuring we remain authentic to the direction of the restaurant
• Collaborate with the General Manager and Food & Beverage Team to create and implement promotional activities to increase revenue

• Participate in all stages of the employee life-cycle ensuring to create an inclusive, high performing culture
• Ensure compliance with food safety, hygiene and workplace health and safety legislation and regulation
• Implement strategies to minimise waste and drive sustainable practices
• Oversee food safety, HACCAP, WH&S and sanitation in the kitchen 

About You

You are highly driven, creative and passionate about what you do. You are reliable, level headed and able to think outside the box. You will also hold:

• Experienced as a head chef or emerging talent with 2 or more years’ sous chef experience.
• Formal qualifications in Commercial Cookery (or equivalent)
• Background in Italian cuisine and experience with pizza ovens and dough making will be highly regarded
• You are a quick thinker who understands the importance fostering a supportive culture of high achieving Chefs.
• A confident and creative cooking style with a strong emphasis on quality and presentation
• The ability to deliver consistent, high quality food whilst maintaining food costs
• A strong understanding of rostering and costings
• A flexible approach in adapting to guest requests
• Demonstrated experience in leading, motivating and developing a team
• Strong time management skills, impeccable attention to detail and the ability to work well under pressure
• Flexibility to support a varied roster across week days, weekends, public holidays, breakfast, lunch and dinner

Why Join Us:
When you join Accor you are not only joining a Company with more than 5000 properties in over 110 countries you are joining a company where culture is deeply ingrained in everything we do. Our Company Values and Heartist principles guide all of our actions and decisions and we hope that you’ll feel welcome as soon as you arrive onsite.

• Work Your Way with Accor – this role offers a flexible roster
• Access to fantastic discounts on accommodation, food & beverage globally as well as partner perks
• Endless career opportunities & access to our in-house learning and development offering through Academy Accor

Apply now to begin your journey!

Accor's COVID-19 Vaccination Policy applies at designated Accor locations. Peppers Gallery is not currently a location where COVID-19 vaccination is mandated by the Accor COVID-19 Vaccination Policy. Except in rare cases where an exemption may apply, COVID-19 vaccination will be required if the location is declared a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination workplace in the future.

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply.

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