Posted 3 months ago
Jr. Sous Chef
@ HelloFresh
Mississauga, Ontario
Overview
HelloFresh is hiring a Junior Sous Chef to help run daily kitchen operations at a commissary kitchen, supervising food quality, production and recipe adherence while training hourly staff. The role involves working across all kitchen stations in hot, cool and cold environments, with pay of $23.75 CAD per hour and a 75% discount on weekly meal boxes.
Responsibilities:
- Train, coach and develop hourly kitchen employees
- Maintain kitchen equipment and inventory
- Ensure health and safety standards are met
- Track food storage, rotation and quality
- Work across all production areas including receiving, prep, cooking and packing
Requirements summary:
- 2+ years in a commissary kitchen with high-volume food preparation
- Ability to lead and develop a small team
- Comfort with Microsoft Office or Google Suite
- Strong communication skills
- Comfortable working in hot, cool and cold environments (0-30ºC)
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · greenhouse
- Employer posting date
- 2026-08-12
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-05
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Hospitality & tourism |
| Experience | 2+ years |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Schedule | evening, overnight |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Plant or factory, Restaurant or kitchen, Warehouse |
| Position | Mostly standing |
| Physical demands | physical moderate · computer low |
| Languages | English |
| Perks mentioned | Employee discount, Free or discounted meals |
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HelloFresh
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We change the way people eat - forever.
Full company description
HelloFresh is on a mission to change the way people eat, forever! From our 2011 founding in Europe’s vibrant tech hub Berlin, we’re evolving from the world’s leading meal kit company to the world's leading food solutions group. We delivered 243.3 million meals and reached 7.5 million active customers around the world in Q3 2022. HelloFresh Group consists of six brands that provide customers with high quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. Every ingredient needed for our meals are carefully planned, responsibly sourced and delivered to your door when it’s most convenient for you. Only HelloFresh gives you the tools to achieve something delicious every day. Making a meal a delicious achievement - not just fuel for your day - takes a lot of work and smart people. From Designers and Copywriters to Data Scientists and DevOps Engineers, to potato farmers, pasta makers and the people who ensure every box is perfectly packed for every customer, we’re collectively disrupting the food supply chain and the multi-trillion-dollar food tech industry. Our more than 21,000 high-performing and ambitious employees across the globe from New York to Berlin, London to Sydney and Toronto to Milan enjoy a number of benefits including flexible working arrangements, discounts on our boxes, health and well-being and learning and development programs. We’re always looking for quality ingredients to perfect our recipe, so join us now! https://www.hellofresh.com/careers/locations
- LinkedIn followers
- 435,153
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 17,078
- Reported office locations
- Prinzenstraße 89, Berlin, Berlin 10969, DE
- Prinzenstrasse 89, Berlin, Berlin 10969, DE
- 41 Dovercourt Road, Unit 2, Toronto, Ontario M6J 3C2, CA
- 60 Worship Street, London, London EC2A 2EZ, GB
- 28 Liberty St, New York, New York 10005, US
- Spaklerweg 52, Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1114, NL
- 5-13 Queen Street, Chippendale NSW 2008, Australia, Level 3, Chippendale, NSW 2008, AU
- Business categories
- Subscription Service
- Education
- Food Delivery
- Non Profit
- Social Impact
- B2C
- Delivery Service
- Food and Beverage
- Career Planning
- Events
- Other recorded names
- HelloFresh
- Specialties
- Sourcing fresh and organic ingredients
- Creating tasty and balanced recipes
- Delivering always for free
- Valuing customers' feedback
- Sustainable and nutritious meals
- valuing diversity
- and Striving to maintain an inclusive environment
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 367,459,141
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
HelloFresh is on a mission to change the way people eat, forever! From our 2011 founding in Europe’s vibrant tech hub Berlin, we’re evolving from the world’s leading meal kit company to the world's leading food solutions group. We delivered 243.3 million meals and reached 7.5 million active customers around the world in Q3 2022. HelloFresh Group consists of six brands that provide customers with high quality food…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Consumer Services |
| Company size | 10,001+ employees |
| Headquarters | Berlin, Berlin |
| Organization type | Public Company |
| Year founded | 2011 |
| Specialties | Sourcing fresh and organic ingredientsCreating tasty and balanced recipesDelivering always for freeValuing customers' feedbackSustainable and nutritious mealsvaluing diversity and Striving to maintain an inclusive environment |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 86 |
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About the Role:
We are seeking a Junior Sous-Chef responsible for helping oversee the daily kitchen operations. This role will ensure that all food prepared meets the highest quality standards and follows all SOP's and company practices.
The Junior Sous Chef will assist the Executive Chef, Executive Sous Chef, and Sous Chef’s in supervising food quality, production and recipe adherence. The ability to quickly and authoritatively delegate tasks to hourly kitchen personnel. Knowledge of all kitchen stations with a mentality to fill in for and/or assist cooks to ensure that the kitchen operates smoothly.
What you will be doing:
- Train, coach, and develop a team of hourly kitchen employees
- Maintain upkeep of the kitchen, including equipment and inventory
- Ensure the kitchen operates with the highest health and safety standards, and is in alignment with federal and provincial health and safety requirements
- Track and manage food storage, rotation, and qualityBalance quality, productivity, cost, safety and morale to achieve positive results in all areas
- Work in all areas of the production facility, including refrigerated areas, and perform tasks ranging from receiving of ingredients and packaging, preparation of ingredients, cooking activities, plating, and order packing.
At a minimum, you have:
- 2+ years experience in a commissary kitchen with high-volume food preparation
- Computer literate; you are comfortable with Microsoft Office / Google Suite applications (spreadsheets, slides, etc)
- Ability to lead, train and develop a small group of employees and manage an active kitchen
- A problem solver’s mentality; you see problems as opportunities and see the benefit of doing things differently
- Strong communication skills; you adjust your communication style to different audiences, relay information effectively, and speak to employees with tact and diplomacy
- Ability to multitask, tracking/monitoring recipe development, maintaining efficiency, and delivering on time
- No/low ego; you take direction/feedback well, and are focused on getting to the best possible outcome
- Comfortable with being exposed to hot, cool and/or cold environments (0-30ºC)
What you’ll get in return:
- Competitive salary and health benefits
- Shift premiums are available for afternoon and overnight shifts
- 75% discount on HelloFresh or Chefs Plate weekly box subscription
- High impact work to help feed thousands of families in Canada
- Opportunity to learn and grow
- Work with a hard-working and supportive team
Working Conditions:
It’s no surprise that as a food company, we use many ingredients that may be considered common allergens (i.e. peanuts, tree nuts, milk, etc.). Whether this role is based out of our headquarters or one of our distribution centers, it is possible that you may be exposed to such allergens in this role. If you have any concerns with being exposed to any particular food ingredients, including meat, please disclose this during the hiring process.
If this sounds like you, please click the "Apply Now" button. If this role doesn't quite match what you're looking for, but you'd like to know more about joining the HelloFresh team, please visit our Jobs page to view our other vacancies. We'd love to hear from you!
HelloFresh Canada uses AI-integrated technology to help us process and evaluate applications more efficiently. This includes tools that screen and assess candidate qualifications based on the requirements for this role. While these tools assist our workflow, all final selection decisions are made by our hiring team.
This is a posting for an existing vacancy. We are actively seeking to fill this position.
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Mississauga, ON Pay Range
$23.75—$23.75 CAD
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