Senior Sous Chef

Sydney CBD | Mon–Fri | 12:30 PM – 9:30 PM | No Weekends | Lead 15+ Team

What Feedwell Is

We make thousands of delicious items daily (platters, wraps, salad bowls, grazing boards, fruit platters, bakery) for clients including Google, Amazon, Canva, Louis Vuitton and many more.

Not à la carte, fresh produce arrives daily, presentation matters on every item, and structured sections run in parallel: prep, cooking, salads, fruit, gourmet bread range for 5-star hotels, baked goods. Calm, but it moves. And we’re raising the bar on quality. We want someone who’ll help drive that.

The Role

Leading our entire PM shift, you will responsible for leading 15+ kitchen hands and cooks across sections. Your role will be to set the standard, guiding staff when they go off course and ensuring on-time delivery. This is a hands-on role, offering the opportunity to take ownership of a high-quality team. You will be empowering your team leaders to take pride in the quality of their work. We want someone who relentlessly promotes positive team culture and can take responsibility for creating a fantastic team environment during your shifts.

Why This Is More Than a Typical Sous Chef Role

That’s why this role sits on a clear pathway to Kitchen Manager. As you prove performance, the scope grows: more involvement in planning, more influence on standards, more ownership of outcomes across the operation. This isn’t a vague promise. It’s how we’ve built every senior role in this company.

Our PD Manager owns the creative direction, but your input matters. You will trial new items at production scale, troubleshoot, adjust, and train the team. You give honest feedback on what works, what breaks at volume, and where flavours can improve. Your food knowledge shapes how recipes actually run.

You’re Right for This If

• Trained chef, 7+ years in food/hospitality, at least 2 years in a senior role (sous chef, senior sous chef, 2IC, or similar)

• You’ve led teams of 10–20+ in high-volume environments: hotels, clubs, contract catering, events, large restaurants

• You have a strong eye for quality and are willing to upkeep our impressive standards

• You develop people. You get on the bench with them, and you can name individuals whose skills you’ve lifted

• You want genuine leadership scope and visible results, not just another “support the head chef” role

This Probably Isn’t for You If

You want full creative control of menus, prefer traditional brigade hierarchy, or measure status by title instead of results. There’s no “yes chef” culture here, just standards, pace, and people who care about getting it right.

What You Get

• Monday to Friday, 12:30 PM – 9:30 PM. No weekends, no split shifts

• Competitive salary + super

• Clear pathway to Kitchen Manager as you prove performance

• Full shift ownership and direct collaboration with Product Development

• Meals on shift, fortnightly grocery box, birthday off

• A growing company that promotes from within

Apply

Click Apply. You’ll receive a short follow-up questionnaire via email and SMS. Be ready to tell us about:

• A KPI you personally turned around

• Someone you developed who measurably improved

• A quality issue you caught before it left the kitchen