Junior R&D Chef
Job Summary
The Epic Food Group is seeking a Junior R&D Chef to cook, test, and refine new products in their development kitchen. The role involves standardising dishes, creating SOPs, rolling out items across seven outlets, and managing recipe and inventory systems. Candidates must be fresh graduates in Culinary Arts, Food Science, or Food Technology with a strong eye for detail.
Responsibilities
- Cook, test and refine new products in the development kitchen
- Standardise each dish with grammage, yield, costing, and SOPs
- Roll out new products across seven outlets and train crews
- Run quality checks (QCQA) on food and maintain standards
- Manage recipe and inventory systems for over 50 brands
Required Skills
- Fresh graduate in Culinary Arts, Food Science or Food Technology
- Ability to cook and demonstrate attention to detail and consistency
- Comfortable with numbers, spreadsheets, and documentation
- Good command of English
- Own transport for visiting outlets
Job Details
Cook, test and refine new products in our development kitchen — you bring the hands, we set the direction Standardise each dish: grammage, yield, costing and the SOPs that make it repeatable Roll out new products across all seven outlets — write the guides, film the SOP videos, train the crews Run quality checks (QCQA) on our food and catch anything off standard Own our recipe and inventory systems — the machinery behind 50+ brands Requirements Fresh graduate in Culinary Arts, Food Science or Food Technology — you must be able to cook (required) A real eye for detail and consistency Comfortable with numbers and documentation — spreadsheets, grammage records, SOPs (required) Good command of English Driven to master the business of food, not just the cooking Own transport — you'll visit outlets sometimes (required) Motivated by precision and getting things exactly right