Head Chef (f/m/d)
Bern
Key information
- Publication date:19 September 2025
- Workload:100%
- Place of work:Bern
Job summary
Are you passionate about exciting culinary experiences? Join us now!
Tasks
- Ensure smooth kitchen operations and food production daily.
- Manage personnel and inventory costs efficiently.
- Plan menus and oversee compliance with health regulations.
Skills
- Completed professional culinary training required.
- Strong communication skills in German, English is a plus.
- Team-oriented mindset with a passion for cooking.
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Are you interested in exciting culinary arts and eager for a fresh and varied kitchen? Then you are exactly right with us!
We are opening this restaurant in February 2026. From January, we are looking for you.
You with us. A recipe for success!
- Responsible for smooth operations in the kitchen as well as the production of hot and cold dishes
- Responsible for compliance with personnel and material costs
- Management of the production of hot and cold dishes as well as active assistance in all stations possible
- Menu planning, ordering, and inventory as well as other administrative tasks
- Responsible for compliance with and implementation of ISO and HACCP guidelines
- Completed chef apprenticeship EFZ
- Experience in community catering as well as in upscale gastronomy
- Good communication skills in spoken and written German and preferably in English
- Good IT skills
- Hands-on, flexible, independent, resilient, team-oriented, and passionate about the cooking profession
- Feasting: Free, fresh, and healthy employee meals
- Discounts: Employee rates in SV-managed hotels and discounted meals in our restaurants
- Workwear: We provide and clean employees' workwear. Provision of safety shoes for the kitchen area
- Flexibility: Part-time work and job sharing
- Development: SV Academy with various training sessions, courses, further education opportunities, and e-learnings
- Consultation: Occupational medical advice with annually defined focus areas
- Well-being: Regular employee satisfaction surveys and evaluation of psychological stress
Nina, Co-Team Lead HR Recruiting DE & CH
The SV Group is a leading gastronomy and hotel management group based in Dübendorf near Zurich. The group operates in several business areas: restaurants for companies and schools, hotels with own brands as well as with other renowned brands as franchisee, public restaurants with innovative concepts, as well as gastronomic delivery service and catering. The SV Group employs around 5,800 people, of which 4,000 are in Switzerland.
The SV Group traces back to the non-profit organization "Schweizer Verband Soldatenwohl" founded in 1914. Else Züblin-Spiller established soldiers' lounges nationwide and served balanced and affordable meals there. The idealistic values of the founder are continued today by the SV Foundation. This charitable foundation is the majority shareholder of the SV Group and uses its funds for projects in the field of healthy nutrition and for the common good.
Together with your team, you pamper guests daily with up to 100 main meals at the SV Restaurant Culinarium in Bern with a diverse offer: varied menus, vegetarian dishes, salads, and snacks from early to late as well as a sophisticated catering offer for meetings, aperitifs, and standing lunches. The team consists of about 6 employees.
You work from Monday to Friday, depending on the schedule, mostly from 07:00 to 16:00. You are flexibly available for special events.
