Pizza Chef (Wood-Fired Oven)

Want to grow as a chef? This casual dining restaurant in Burgersfort gives you real stations and real volume. It's a practical job: you'll see what you got done before you go home.

Home base is a casual dining restaurant on the Burgersfort side of Limpopo. The first two weeks are spent shadowing someone experienced.

• Receive deliveries, check weights and reject short-dated produce.
• Help cost recipes and track waste on the weekly sheet.
• Clean down your section, deep-clean the fryer and scrub the extractor filters.
• Label, date and rotate stock using first-in, first-out.
• Cook steaks, burgers and grills to the temperature on the docket.
• Cook for banquets and conference lunches of 100 to 400 guests.
• Prep veg, sauces, marinades and portions from the daily mise en place list.

• Weekend, holiday and evening work is part of the deal
• A culinary certificate or City & Guilds, or solid on-the-job experience
• Good knife skills and you can prep at speed
• Comfortable in heat, on your feet, for long split shifts
• You take instruction from the head chef without drama

• Transport allowance for split and late shifts
• On-the-job training with a path to chef de partie
• Live-in accommodation at lodge postings

• List your stations (grill, pastry, cold, sauce) under each job; head chefs scan for this first.
• Expect a trade test: bring your own knives, arrive early and clean as you go the whole time.