Team Leader Kitchen & Production 100 %

Your heart beats for older people and your passion belongs to gastronomy? You love good food, gladly take on responsibility and want to make a difference with your culinary skills? As Team Leader Kitchen & Production, you bring your experience, passion and leadership talent - develop new ideas, set culinary accents and bring enjoyment to the plate together with your team.

For Tertianum Letzipark in the Zurich region, we are looking for a

Team Leader Kitchen & Production 100 %

In this operational key role, you take over the leadership of the kitchen team and, together with the cluster kitchen management, ensure the high-quality production for Tertianum Letzipark and the connected locations. In your role, you report to the Head of Hospitality.

Your tasks

• Operational responsibility for the kitchen area
• Leadership, deployment planning, development and training of employees in the entire kitchen area
• Organisation, coordination and ensuring timely production and delivery to the connected locations including quantity, quality and interface control
• Management of production quantities, control of goods costs as well as active reduction of overproduction and food waste
• Participation in menu planning as well as implementation and further development of recipes, production specifications and portion sizes
• Active work in the kitchen as well as continuous development of operational processes
• Implementation, monitoring and compliance with quality standards, HACCP concept, occupational safety guidelines, audit requirements
• Active management of the KVP process using the Kaizen tool
• Co-responsibility for goods purchasing, budget and controlling management, inventory as well as quality management
• Professional support and training of apprentices in the kitchen area
• Close professional cooperation with the cluster kitchen management and the managers of the supplied locations
• Ensuring smooth cooperation between F&B, Front Office, care and Head of Hospitality
• Close cooperation and direct reporting line to the Head of Hospitality
• Deputising during the absence of the Head of Hospitality (service and kitchen)

Your profile

• Several years of leadership experience in a comparable kitchen function, ideally in communal catering or a healthcare institution
• Completed advanced vocational training
• High service orientation and visible presence in the operational kitchen area
• Good MS Office skills and a strong affinity for digital kitchen, ordering and planning systems
• Entrepreneurial thinking, creativity as well as a high standard of quality and service
• Resilience, assertiveness and at the same time appreciative leadership style
• A positive, solution-oriented and humorous basic attitude
• Driving licence category B for vehicles with manual transmission is a prerequisite
• Very good German language skills in spoken and written form

Why Tertianum?

It is important to us that our employees can reconcile work and private life well. This includes a diverse range of benefits, e.g.:

• Internal and external training opportunities
• No room hour
• Additional day off in the birthday month
• Discounted mobile and internet subscriptions at Sunrise
• Discounts on selected supplementary health insurance
• SBB half-fare travelcard
• Various fleet discounts

Further benefits can be found on our website .

Are you interested?

We offer you an exciting perspective: with us, you can apply your skills and expertise in a motivated and flexible team. You take responsibility and help shape the future of Tertianum. Apply now and become part of our team.

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