Pizza Chef (Wood-Fired Oven)

Service is busy at this city hotel kitchen in Pinetown, so steady hands and a tidy station matter here. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

Home base is a city hotel kitchen on the Pinetown side of KwaZulu-Natal.

• Run your station during service and call back every ticket from the pass.
• Prep veg, sauces, marinades and portions from the daily mise en place list.
• Help cost recipes and track waste on the weekly sheet.
• Train the kitchen assistants on knife safety and prep standards.
• Label, date and rotate stock using first-in, first-out.

• You know food safety basics under R638 and HACCP
• Comfortable in heat, on your feet, for long split shifts
• Good knife skills and you can prep at speed
• A culinary certificate or City & Guilds, or solid on-the-job experience
• Weekend, holiday and evening work is part of the deal
• You take instruction from the head chef without drama

• A food safety certificate from a registered training provider
• Stock and ordering experience on a system such as Micros or Pilot
• Pastry or bakery training

• On-the-job training with a path to chef de partie
• Two staff meals per shift
• Transport allowance for split and late shifts
• Chef whites and safety shoes provided

• List your stations (grill, pastry, cold, sauce) under each job; head chefs scan for this first.
• Do not leave gaps unexplained; if you did casual banquet work between jobs, say so on your CV.