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Combining hands-on culinary expertise with strong operational and commercial thinking, you’ll partner with site catering leaders to drive excellence across food quality, menu development, safety, compliance, cost control and the overall guest experience.\nThis is an opportunity to influence more than one kitchen. You’ll review catering operations, identify opportunities for improvement, introduce new ideas and help build greater quality and consistency across our villages. Food plays an important role in the wellbeing and experience of our guests, and your expertise will help our teams continue to deliver safe, nutritious and consistently high-quality meals.\nBased in Perth, with travel to site approximately once a month, you’ll enjoy the best of both worlds: the opportunity to work with a collaborative corporate team while staying connected to our kitchens, people and frontline operations. Your ideas, experience and passion for great food will have a visible impact across the business.\nKey Responsibilities\nConduct planned and targeted audits across village catering operations, identifying risks, improvement opportunities and operational efficiencies.\nGuide and influence Catering Managers, Head Chefs and site-based kitchen leaders through workshops, coaching and operational meetings.\nSupport the implementation of standard menus, seasonal produce and new food concepts across Civeo villages.\nReview food production, presentation, ordering, storage, stock rotation and meal-service processes.\nMonitor food quality, hygiene standards and the overall guest dining experience.\nSupport catering teams to achieve customer satisfaction targets and maintain a professional, service-focused hospitality culture.\nEnsure compliance with workplace health, safety, quality and environmental requirements, including HACCP and relevant ISO standards.\nAssist with workforce capability initiatives, including training frameworks and structured development programs for catering teams and apprentices.\nReview kitchen labour, food and consumables costs, identifying opportunities to reduce waste and improve financial performance.\nSupport budgeting, forecasting, stock control, reporting and variance analysis.\nPartner with Village Managers and catering leaders to introduce continuous improvement initiatives and operational best practice.\nProvide hands-on culinary and operational support when required. \nQualifications\nCertificate III in Commercial Cookery or a higher relevant qualification.\nInternational qualifications must be formally recognised by an Australian training or trade authority.\nCurrent Australian driver’s licence \nRelevant food safety, HACCP or workplace health and safety training will be highly regarded. \nExperience\nDemonstratable experience as a Catering Manager, Head Chef or in a comparable senior catering position.\nDemonstrated experience supervising, developing and managing kitchen or hospitality teams.\nStrong experience in high-volume, bulk or batch catering environments.\nExperience managing menus, production planning, food quality, stock control and kitchen operations.\nSound knowledge of workplace health and safety requirements within the hospitality or catering industry.\nExperience working with HACCP and ISO-based safety, quality or environmental systems.\nPrevious experience in remote-site catering, accommodation villages, mining services or large-scale institutional catering will be highly regarded. \nSkills\nExtensive knowledge of bulk catering methods and a variety of cuisines.\nStrong understanding of food ordering, storage, preparation, production and service delivery.\nAbility to influence and build strong working relationships with operational and site-based leaders.\nStrong analytical capability, including kitchen budgets, labour costs, food costs, stock levels and operational reporting.\nExcellent planning, organisation and problem-solving skills.\nConfidence identifying improvement opportunities and implementing practical solutions.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor information to different audiences.\nCustomer-focused approach with a commitment to food quality and service excellence.\nAbility to remain composed, accountable and effective in a fast-paced operational environment.\nCompetency using Microsoft Office and computer-based menu, costing or production-planning systems. \nWhy Civeo\nStay Well, Work Well focus\nThe Civeo Hive, Rewards & Recognition\nCollaborative & supportive leadership team\nGrowth team / Growth Mindset\nCorporate office location, 3 days in the office, 2 days' work from home\nAbout Us\nCiveo Australia, a division of Civeo Corporation, provides workforce accommodation services globally. In Australia, Civeo has a national footprint of approximately 10,000 rooms across twelve villages in Queensland, New South Wales, and Western Australia. In addition, Civeo also operates approximately 16,500 rooms in client-owned properties in remote regions of Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland. With more than 40 years of experience, Civeo supports individuals who live and work away from home.\nWe're committed to fostering sustainable partnerships and inclusive opportunities in all the communities we operate in. By actively engaging with Traditional Owners and First Nations Businesses, we're not just operating accommodation villages, we're nurturing relationships that honour the rich cultural heritage of the land.\nWe're safe, welcoming, and proud to encourage Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people to join us.\nApply now and help shape the future of food and hospitality at Civeo.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5799,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Australia","iso":"AU","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Hotels & Resorts","Catering & Food Services","Facilities Management"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-09T10:17:11Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":33,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-09T11:29:06Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/civeo-culinary-excellence-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/civeo-culinary-excellence-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-09T11:29:06Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":13420,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-10T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2085291},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2085291"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fciveo-culinary-excellence-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fciveo-culinary-excellence-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fciveo-culinary-excellence-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/civeo-culinary-excellence-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fciveo-culinary-excellence-lead"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3958587}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"civeo.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3958587},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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