Production Chef
- Reading
- Permanent
- Full-time
📍 Location: Reading
📅 Start Date: September 2025
💼 Contract Type: Permanent
⏱️ Hours: 36 hours per week
💰 Salary: £26,000 - £30,000 per annum
💸 Enhanced Pay: Time and a half for overtime, double pay on Sundays
Are you a skilled chef who thrives in a fast-paced, high-volume kitchen?
Want to be part of a central production team crafting hundreds of meals daily?
Blue Arrow is recruiting Production Chefs to join a large-scale catering operation in Reading - where your precision, speed, and passion will be rewarded.🍽️ About the Role:
Work from a central production kitchen preparing 600 meals a day, supplying a network of eateries, bars, and restaurants across the estate. You'll be part of a skilled brigade focused on quality, consistency, and sustainability.✨ What's in it for you?
- 🍽️ Free meals on duty
- 💸 Overtime paid at 1.5x hourly rate
- 📆 Double pay on Sundays
- 🎄 Christmas & Easter off - all kitchens close for the holidays
- 🌴 36 days annual leave
- 💷 Pension contribution - 5%, rising to 7% after 5 years
- 🧑🍳 Training & development - NVQs available
- 🏆 Chef competitions - showcase your skills
- 🏢 Variety of kitchens - across a large estate
- 🚗 On-site parking available
- 🌱 Fresh food focus - sustainability at the heart of every dish
- 🔪 Producing large volumes of fresh meals to exacting standards
- 📋 Following HACCP and food safety procedures
- 🧾 Managing stock, ordering, and minimising waste
- 👥 Working closely with the Head Chef and wider team
- 🧠 Supporting menu development and operational efficiency
- 🎓 NVQ Level 2 in Professional Cookery (or equivalent)
- ✅ Level 2 Food Safety
- 🧠 Experience in a commercial or production kitchen
- 💬 Strong communication and organisational skills
- 💪 Calm under pressure, with a passion for food and teamwork
🕖 7am-2:30pm | 🕗 8am-2:45pm | 🕐 1pm-9pm | 🕝 2:15pm-10pm
Weekend work available - earn significantly more!Ready to feed the future? Apply now and power up your career with Blue Arrow!Blue Arrow is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and is committed to helping find great work opportunities for great people.