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Vacancy | Sous Chef

Sous Chef – Wigan Sporting Events Limited

📍 Location: The Brick Community Stadium, Wigan

📑 Contract: Permanent

👤 Reports to: Executive Head Chef

⏳ Hours: 40 hours per week

📅 Closing Date: 21st October 2026, 11:59pm

Role Purpose:

The Sous Chef will support the Executive Head Chef and wider kitchen team in the effective day-to-day operation of the kitchen, ensuring consistently high standards of food quality, presentation, hygiene and service.

Working across matchdays, events, hospitality and non-matchday catering, the Sous Chef will play a key role in leading the kitchen team, maintaining operational standards and delivering an excellent food offering to customers, guests and clients.

The role requires a hands-on chef who can work effectively in a fast-paced environment, demonstrate strong organisation and leadership skills, and maintain high standards at all times.

Personal Attributes:

The successful candidate will be:

• Passionate about food and delivering high standards.
• A confident and supportive team leader.
• Organised, reliable and commercially aware.
• Calm and professional under pressure.
• Flexible and adaptable to changing operational demands.
• Committed to maintaining excellent food safety and hygiene standards.
• Positive, approachable and willing to lead from the front.
• Focused on delivering an excellent customer and guest experience.

Wigan Sporting Events Limited are committed to the principle of equal opportunity in employment and its employment policies for recruitment are designed to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy, and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

Wigan Sporting Events Limited are committed to safeguarding children, young people, and adults at risk during events and activities. The Club recognises its responsibility to safeguard the welfare of these vulnerable groups by a commitment to procedures to protect them. The Club expects all staff and volunteers to respect them.