Senior Culinary Opportunities, Stadium of Light
- Sunderland, England, UK
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- Sport · Casual
- Posted 25 Jun 2026
What you'll do
The opportunity
Delaware North UK is hiring casual Senior Culinary opportunities for Chefs to join our team at the Stadium of Light, in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. As a Chef, you will be working with an enthusiastic kitchen team to create memorable and first-class dining experiences for guests. If you are looking for Senior Culinary opportunities, join our collaborative team.
Pay
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What will you do?
- Lead kitchen operations for events from planning through delivery, deliver team briefings, and manage food production, menus, staffing, and logistics
- Ensure food consistently meets Delaware North’s standards and specifications, maintaining high quality, presentation, and consistency
- Lead, support, and develop culinary teams, allocating tasks, monitoring performance, and maintaining clear communication
- Drive high standards of food presentation and allergen compliance, ensuring quality guest experience, leading teams to deliver seamless event service
- Ensure the operation complies with current health and safety, food hygiene, fire regulations, licensing laws, and trading standards, maintaining Delaware North’s policies and standards of excellence
What you need
- No degree required
- Certification in Level 3 Food Safety, Allergen Expert Level 2, Level 2 Safety Awareness, COSHH Training, and Guest and Staff Experience Training
- Experience as Lead Chef or Senior Chef in high-volume, fast-paced catering
- Skills in leadership, communication, teamwork, reliability, punctuality, detail-orientation, and performing under pressure
- Ability to stand for duration of shift
- Comfortable handling various meat products
- Availability to attend shifts for prep days, as well as matchdays and event days, due to events-based nature of roles
Perks
- Competitive weekly pay
- Casual 6+ hour shifts, including evenings and weekends flexibly working part-time for the biggest events and match days, with opportunities to pick up extra shifts that suit your lifestyle
- Free meal on event days
- Experience in a dynamic workplace hosting major national and international sporting events and concerts, including The Lads at Sunderland A.F.C. in Premier League football, and musical icons taking the stage, as well as a range of exciting meetings and events and plenty more still to come in 2026 and 2027
About Delaware North
Delaware North is a family-owned hospitality company based in Buffalo, New York, and has served sports fans since 1915. It runs food, drink and hospitality at stadiums, parks, resorts, airports and casinos across the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.
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