Central Kitchen Chef

We run a coffee and food business in Riyadh: three branches and one central kitchen. We need a chef to run that kitchen. You will lead a team of eight. You are responsible for what the kitchen makes every day, for the people who make it, and for the new items we add to the menu. This is a hands-on job: you will be in the kitchen, not at a desk.What you will do- Run each day's production against what the branches ordered: full quantity, on time, to the recipe.- Keep the kitchen ready for a food safety inspection on any day, with no warning.- Keep one written recipe per item, with its yield and cost, and control waste.- Order, receive, store and count the stock, so the system matches the shelf.- Lead the team: shift roster, rest days, training, and standards.- Develop new items from idea to roll-out: recipe, cost, tasting, a trial in one branch, then all branches.- Report production, waste and stock to your manager, and raise problems the day they happen.What we need from you- You have run a production kitchen or a central kitchen, with a team under you.- You know the food safety rules in Saudi Arabia and can pass an inspection.- You can cost a recipe and hold a yield.- You can write a recipe down so someone else makes it the same way.- You can manage a team where not everyone shares the same first language.- Transferable iqama, or you are eligible to work in Saudi Arabia.- Useful but not required: opening a new kitchen, or bakery and pastry experience.