Curry Chef, Tandoori Chef, Cook and Kitchen Hand

Job description

Positions: Curry Chef, Tandoori Chef, Cook and Kitchen Hand

Position Type: Full Time Salary: $75,000 - $90,000 p/a plus Super

Employer Name: Spicia Pty Ltd

Job Location: 2/752 Sandgate Road, Clayfield, QLD 4011

Advertising Period – 01/10/2026 to 01/11/2026

About us

Our Client, Spicia Pty Ltd, are a dynamic and fast-growing hospitality group operating multiple successful restaurants. As part of this exciting growth, they are seeking passionate and skilled individuals to join the team in the following positions:

·Curry Chef

·Tandoori Chef

·Cook

·Kitchen Hand

The ideal candidates will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth daily operations and delivering exceptional culinary and service experiences to the guests. These roles involve overseeing kitchen and restaurant operations, maintaining high standards of food quality and service, coordinating staff, and contributing to menu innovation and customer satisfaction.

If you have a passion for the food and hospitality industry and want to be part of an expanding group, we would love to hear from you.

Curry Chef·Calculating food and labor costs to ensure profitability and efficient resource allocation.

·Participating in the selection and hiring process to onboard skilled and qualified kitchen personnel and training the kitchen staff to perform their duties adequately.

·Designing menus that balance creativity, seasonal availability, and customer preferences.

·Ensure hygiene is maintained to the required standards and maintain a clean and organized kitchen during and after service.

·Monitors and maintains the quality of curries throughout every stage of preparation, ensuring that each plate meets high standards in taste, presentation, and adherence to culinary excellence.

·Ensuring curries are prepared according to standardized recipes and presentation guidelines.

·Ordering ingredients and optimizing inventory to support kitchen operations.

·Strategically freezing and preserving ingredients to minimize waste and optimize kitchen efficiency.

·Creating and refining curry recipes, which can include Indian style.

·Working closely with managers, dietitians, kitchen staff, and waiting staff, the focus is on fostering collaboration and addressing operational, nutritional, and customer service aspects to ensure efficient and high-quality food service.

·Introducing new cooking techniques, recipes, and menu items to enhance culinary offerings.

Tandoori Chef

• Responsible for the preparation of dishes from the tandoor, including naan bread, chaps, and marinated meats as per the menu and recipes.
• Ensuring that the meals are prepared as per hygiene standards and served to the customers on time.
• Ensure staff always adhere to Occupational health and safety measures.
• Ensuring the seasoning marination and garnishing of tandoori dishes are done appropriately as well as ensuring that the right portion of food is served to the customers as per restaurant standards.
• Analyzing and approximating the price for food and human resources.
• Menu designing and amending details in menu regarding prices, dishes whenever required as well as planning seasonal specials.
• Ensure proper storage of tandoori ingredients in temperature-controlled facilities to maintain freshness and quality.
• Directing food preparation to meet any special dietary requirements of the customer.
• Monitor stock levels of tandoori ingredients and order high-quality raw materials to avoid shortages.
• Providing instructions to kitchen staff regarding the proper way of handling cooking equipment and demonstrating different cooking styles.
• Monitoring the quality of raw and cooked food.
• Recruit, Train and mentor other kitchen staff and apprentices in tandoori cooking techniques.
• Working closely with managers, kitchen staff, and waiting staff, the focus is on fostering collaboration and addressing operational, nutritional, and customer service aspects to ensure efficient and high-quality food service.
• Effectively deal and rectify the issues for the smooth operations of the business.

Cook

Cooking food as per the dietary requirements of the patrons such as food allergies.

• Checking whether the ingredients used for cooking are in accordance with recipe guidelines and are of good quality.
• Demonstrating safe work practices and adhering to Workplace health and safety regulations by cleaning and tidying the restaurant and kitchen using sanitizers, bleach, hot water, soap liquids etc.
• Using proper knife handling techniques, and cutting techniques for fruit, vegetables and meats appropriate to the style of cuisine.
• Seasoning, Marinating, Roasting and Baking food as per the recipes.
• Stirring and mixing to make a variety of sauces for marinating and preparing various dishes.
• Performing other activities such as training kitchen staff.
• Cooking, Baking and grilling of meats and vegetables following proper recipes.
• Washing, cutting, peeling of ingredients including vegetables and meats for preparing cuisines.
• Examining food and products to ensure it is of the highest quality.
• Organizing cooked meals in platter with good presentation and right proportion.
• Assisting Chefs in planning and designing menus.
• Assisting chef in daily food operations and working under the supervision of the head chef.
• Receiving and storing stock in a clean place and temperature-controlled facility.

Kitchen Hand·

Ensures that all kitchen tools, pots, pans, and dishware are cleaned efficiently.

·Helps with basic kitchen duties such as preparing ingredients or organizing storage.

·The kitchen staff must maintain strict hygiene standards, comply with local food safety regulations, and ensure that the Mediterranean dishes reflect authentic flavors from regions like Kalamata, Lemnos, and Patra.

·The focus is on maintaining consistency and ensuring that every dish is up to the high standards expected by Ikonic Kitchen customers​.

Skills and Experience:

·A minimum Diploma or Certificate IV Level Qualification is required.

·The candidate must have at least 1 years’ experience

·Positive attitude

·Ability to innovate and communicate ideas effectively.

·Professional communication and interpersonal skills.

Salary Package: $75,000 - $90,000 plus superannuation per annum.

Please include reference: J1229 in the subject line and email all applications and CV to laborwisesolutions@gmail.com

Due to the volume of applicants, only those meeting the minimum standards will be considered and only successful candidates will be contacted. Thank you for your interest in the role.