Head Pizza Chef
Scarpello NI ltd
Employer Location: DERRYJob description
This is an opportunity for a pizza chef to take ownership of our pizza section, maintaining the quality, consistency and standards that define Scarpello’s. You will lead by example in the kitchen, ensuring every pizza is prepared with care, cooked to perfection and delivered to our customers to the highest standard.
Responsibilities
- Lead the day-to-day operation of the pizza section.
- Prepare, handle and stretch pizza dough to a consistently high standard.
- Manage dough preparation, proving, fermentation and storage.
- Operate and manage a wood-fired pizza oven.
Skills and Qualifications
Essential Skills
- Previous professional experience as a pizza chef, with the ability to work at head-chef level.
- Excellent practical pizza-making skills, including dough preparation, stretching and baking.
- Strong knowledge of dough fermentation.
Further Information
Scarpello's is closed annually over the Christmas & New Year period.
- Vacancy ID
- 1789270
- Job ref.
- Scar001
- Job Sector
- Hotel and Catering,Food Production
- Area
- Derry or Londonderry
- Location
- Derry/Londonderry, Buncrana Road
- Salary
- £15 - £17 per hour, rate will depend on level of experience
- No. vacancies
- 1
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Weekly hours
- 40
- Published date
- 29/09/2026
- Closing date
- 01/11/2026
- Worktime
- Thursday to Sunday, times to be confirmed