Warehouse Chef

About the role:

As a Chef within our Hornby Warehouse Cafeteria, you'll play a key role in preparing the food that fuels our busy warehouse operation each day. From breakfast favourites and cabinet offerings through to catering requests and fresh baking, your work will help create an experience our team looks forward to.

Reporting to the Head Chef, you'll take ownership of early morning preparation and help set the kitchen up for a successful day. This role will suit someone who enjoys variety, values their craft, and is comfortable working independently while contributing to a collaborative environment.

Key responsibilities:

• Prepare meals, baked goods, cabinet items, and catering requirements in line with daily demand.
• Present products to a high standard and keep displays replenished throughout service.
• Assist with deliveries, receipting, rotation activities, and ingredient availability.
• Maintain tidy workspaces and follow required food handling and storage practices.
• Provide support across the cafeteria, including customer-facing activities when required.
• Share ideas that contribute to new offerings, seasonal specials, and improved ways of working.

About you:

You're a capable chef who enjoys an early start and takes pride in producing food that is fresh, appealing, and well executed. Self-motivated and dependable, you're happy working autonomously and can manage competing priorities without compromising standards. Ideally, you’ll also bring:

•  Experience as a Chef, Cook, Baker, or within a commercial food production environment.
•  Confidence preparing a broad range of dishes, including baking from scratch.
•  Understanding of dietary requirements, allergens, and nutritional considerations.
•  Experience using kitchen systems, POS platforms, and ordering processes.
•  Strong organisation skills and a practical approach to problem solving.
•  A positive attitude, good communication skills, and willingness to pitch in where needed.
•  Interest in learning, sharing knowledge, and contributing to an evolving food offering.

Don't Meet Every Requirement?

We encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for individuals with diverse experiences and are keen to hear from those who believe they have the drive and potential to succeed in this role.

Why join us?

• We’re committed to equitable outcomes, and we offer additional paid parental leave, free period products and financial health checks to name a few. 
• We support your wellbeing with Southern Cross health insurance for you and your family after a qualifying period, discounts at local gyms, access to online wellbeing tools, and a prayer and privacy room onsite.
• We offer continuous learning and professional growth, as well as access to our extensive online training library and endless opportunities.
• We’re proud of our supportive team environment, and our positive and friendly culture that’s made fun by regular social events!
• We’re a Pride Pledge organisation, and we are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives, every day and we celebrate our diversity as strength.
• Our Hornby site has free carparking and in-house café. 

How to apply:

Ready to take on the challenge? Click “apply” to apply for the role! Applications will close 11:59pm Wednesday 2 September 2026 and will only be accepted via our careers site.

If you have any questions about the role, or experience any issues submitting your application, please email careers@foodstuffs-si.co.nz. 

About us:

We’re a team of 14,000 who make sure South Islanders have access to the groceries and essentials they need. Proudly 100% Kiwi-owned and operated, our co-operative has more than 200 PAK’nSAVE, New World, Four Square and On the Spot stores feeding the South Island.  

We value being at the heart of our communities, like we’ve always been, to make the South Island a better place – for today and for many generations to come. From sunny Golden Bay all the way to Stewart Island, there’s a Foodstuffs store serving you and your whānau.  

Our success is down to our people who bring their skills, experience, passion, and expertise to make Foodies an amazing and rewarding place to work. Our co-op has a wide variety of roles to offer, and endless opportunities for development. 

Our values:

At Foodies, together we drive success to be our best and care for our whānau. We recognise that it takes a collective effort to achieve success, and we thrive on fostering a culture of collaboration to drive innovation and embracing challenges as a united team. We are committed to supporting our people, and to positively impact the lives of South Islanders every day.