Production Head Chef

Company: Harley's Fine Baking

Location: Hyderabad / Bangalore / Mumbai

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: 15+ Years

Salary: ₹8–12 LPA

Reports To: COO / Operations Head / Executive Chef

About the Role

Harley's Fine Baking is looking for a highly experienced Production Head Chef to lead large-scale culinary and production operations across our growing bakery and patisserie business.

The ideal candidate will bring strong chef-level expertise along with proven experience in production planning, recipe standardization, food safety, cost control, process improvement, and large-team leadership.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead end-to-end culinary and production operations at the production center.
- Plan daily production based on demand forecasts, inventory, and business requirements.
- Ensure timely production while optimizing manpower, materials, and resources.
- Maintain consistency in taste, texture, appearance, quality, and presentation.
- Standardize recipes, production methods, processes, and SOPs.
- Drive process improvements to reduce wastage, rework, and production inefficiencies.
- Manage food costs through recipe costing, yield management, portion control, and efficient raw-material utilization.
- Identify opportunities to improve productivity and reduce operational costs without compromising product quality.
- Ensure strict compliance with HACCP, GMP, hygiene, sanitation, temperature control, allergen management, and traceability standards.




- Coordinate with QA/QC for audits, inspections, and corrective actions.
- Lead, mentor, train, and develop the production culinary team.
- Manage rosters, shifts, manpower deployment, and production team performance.
- Coordinate closely with Procurement, Stores, QA/QC, Sales, HR, and Dispatch to ensure smooth end-to-end operations.

Candidate Profile
- Degree/Diploma in Hotel Management, Culinary Arts, Food Production, or equivalent.
- 15+ years of relevant culinary experience, with strong exposure to large-volume kitchen or food production operations.
- Experience in 5-star hotels, premium hospitality, bakery & patisserie production, airline/institutional catering, commissaries, or organized food businesses.
- Proven experience managing large culinary/production teams and high-volume operations.
- Strong knowledge of HACCP, GMP, food safety, recipe costing, yield management, wastage control, and process standardization.
- Strong leadership, planning, problem-solving, and operational management skills.

Why Join Harley's Fine Baking? This is a senior culinary leadership prospect with ownership of production excellence, product consistency, food safety, cost efficiency, and team performance within a growing food production operation.

How to Apply

Interested candidates can share their updated CV at:

[email protected]

+91-(phone hidden)

www.harleys.com

Pay: ₹800,000.00 - ₹1,200,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person

📌 Production Head Chef (Hyderabad)
🏢 HARLEY'S Fine Baking
📍 Hyderabad