Head Chef at Jernbanecafeen

We are looking for a headchef to help develope our café to be the leading café for lunches in Narvik.

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For this position we are looking for a person that have:

• Experience from kitchen, as a chef, sous chef or head chef

• Skills in organizing, planning and developing

• Experience in setting up a menu

• Good knowledge about lunch diches.

• Experience in using a stone oven

• Good economical understanding when it comes to cost efficiency, ordering, food waste and storage control

• Languages:

  • Good communication in English, written and spoken

  • any Scandinavian languages are not a requirement, but you will have to be able to navigate Norwegian web-pages and systems in relation to your position. I.e. pages for ordering food supplies and beverages.

  • if you speak any other languages, it will be valued

  
  

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Jernbanecafeen is a traditional café/restaurant located at Narvik Railway station. Jernbanecafeen was completely rebuilt in 2023 and today it is fitted as a beautiful restaurant with 88 seats.

Jernbanecafeen is the daughter company of Arctic Train, a tourist train that operates on the beautiful Ofoten railway.

It is a close cooperation between these two companies, where part of the staff often works at both places. Jernbanecafeen caters food, pastries and beverages to the train

We are looking for a Head chef that can help develop our new lunch concept, and will have the overall responsibility for the kitchen.

This includes:

• Developing concepts

• Setting up menus

• Administrative tasks such as, ordering, storage control, cost efficiency, and control systems

• Responsible for the quality of the food that is served

• Lead, teach, motivate and develop kitchen personnel

• Cooperation with the board and general manager to secure that the goals of the company is met.

Jernbanecafeen has a fully fitted modern kitchen, but one of the key features here that is not utilized today is two big pizza ovens/stone ovens.

NB! we do notwant to develop a pizza concept!

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• We offer the opportunity to develop a completely new concept for an almost brand-new café.

• Good working conditions and a supportive team around you

• During the first months we will do necessary changes to adapt to our new concept, including investments, inspiration trips, courses and training.

• A competitive salary

• Jernbanecafeen and Arctic Train is a part of a big cooperation called Norwegian Travel. You will have colleagues all over Norway with a vast pool of experience that you can lean on, learn from or just run ideas by.

Jernbanecafeen is situated in Narvik, a town of about 14 000 inhabitants in the city core and a total of about 21 500 with the surrounding villages.

The town is in rapid development due to investments made into industries such as iron ore, military, tourism, health care and education to mention a few.

This year Narvik was chosen as the host for the 2029 world championship in Alpine skiing, which is the second biggest wintertime sports event in the world after the Olympics, and the entire city is preparing for this event.

Narvik and the surrounding area provides an unbeatable combination of city life, beautiful nature at your doorstep, good connection to the rest of the world with both plane and trains.

It also has a great selection of activities for kids, youths and grown ups and all the necessary amenities that you would come to expect from a city, such as good schools, university, a brand-new hospital, museums libraries etc.