The role

A family-owned winery on the NSW Sapphire Coast is hiring a full-time Chef de Partie for its restaurant. It’s a permanent job, not a season.

The kitchen is small and the standard is high. The head chef grew up in Piedmont and came up through a Michelin kitchen; the cooking is gastronomic modern Italian built on South Coast produce, written as three-course menus. You’d run your section under him and one senior chef — six services a week, plus weddings. With three of you in the kitchen, you’ll cook across the whole menu.

What’s on offer

$75,000–$85,000 plus superannuation, depending on experience.
No accommodation. You would find your own place in the Sapphire Coast region — Bermagui, Tathra, Bega and the towns around them. The owners will help with local leads, and they know the area well, but the house is yours to sort.
Sponsorship considered for the right chef. Tell us your work rights when you register and we’ll be straight with you about what that opens.
Couples are welcome. There is casual front-of-house work on site for a partner, and the owners will work with other local businesses to build consistent hours if that’s what a partner needs.

Who this is for

A chef who wants to build their craft under a strong head chef, and who turns up and cooks the same dish the same way on a Tuesday as on a Saturday. Reliability and consistency matter here more than where you’ve worked.

You’ll need:

Section experience in a quality kitchen.
The right to work in Australia, or eligibility for employer sponsorship.
A car. It’s regional — about twenty minutes to the nearest towns, and no bus is going to get you to a dinner service.

The area

The Sapphire Coast is the far south coast of New South Wales — Tathra, Bermagui and Merimbula, beaches and surf you can have to yourself midweek, national parks either side, and a run of wineries along the same roads. It’s about two and a half hours to Canberra. The community is genuinely small, which is the whole appeal for some people and the reason others last a summer.

How to apply

Apply through Wild Ops at wildops.com.au/find-work — register and we’ll be in touch.

About Wild Ops

Wild Ops is a recruitment agency for remote and regional hospitality in Australia. Cindy is a chef by trade and Jordan is a carpenter who moved into managing properties. Between us we’ve run remote and regional properties here for the better part of fifteen years. The owners have appointed us to run this search — we’ll tell you exactly whose kitchen it is before you go forward for it.