Executive Chef at Majkens – Lindvallen, Sälen

Four Service AB · Full-time

Arenavägen 45, 18tr, Johanneshov, Sweden

Four Service is now recruiting an engaged and confident executive chef for our client Lindvallen Restauranger AB (LRAB) and their restaurant Majkens in Lindvallen. For the winter season 2026/2027, we are looking for you to take responsibility for the kitchen, lead a team, and help develop the business forward. The position is initially a seasonal employment from late November to around April 20, but for the right person there are excellent opportunities for recurring seasons and potentially a more long-term position in the future. Four Service handles the entire recruitment process, and once everything is finalized, LRAB becomes your employer. About the position: Majkens is an à la carte restaurant in Lindvallen where the pace can be high and guest traffic varies significantly during the season. As executive chef, you will have a central role in daily operations and lead a team consisting of approximately six chefs and a pizza baker. This is a role for someone who enjoys being close to the action. You work operatively alongside your team, combining hands-on kitchen work with leadership, planning, and development. LRAB wants to build a stable and well-functioning organization for the future—not just staff up for a single season. Therefore, they are looking for an executive chef who wants to help build something long-term. Responsibilities: As executive chef at Majkens, you will, among other things: lead, coach, and develop the kitchen team in daily operations plan staffing and schedules based on booking forecasts, statistics, weather, and operational needs work operatively in the kitchen during lunches, evenings, and weekends order supplies and manage efficient inventory conduct monthly inventories, including year-end inventory actively work to reduce food waste together with Generation Waste collaborate closely with the production kitchen and other restaurant units to optimize resources, working time, and supply management contribute to creating structure, job satisfaction, and a strong team spirit in the kitchen An important part of the role is also collaboration with the executive chefs at Värdshuset and Snögubben, where you work together to ensure the operations run as efficiently as possible. We are looking for you: You are an experienced chef and confident leader who thrives best when you are where the action is. You have solid foundational knowledge of à la carte cuisine and feel comfortable both leading others and working operatively in the kitchen yourself. You are someone who: is clear, engaging, and present in your leadership has a natural ability to create cohesion and build strong teams enjoyed developing people and work methods is organized and solution-oriented is experienced in planning staffing and schedules based on operational needs thrives during periods of high pace and high guest volume has strong English skills views Swedish as the natural working language in the kitchen Experience leading younger staff and building teams with varying experience levels is particularly valuable. Stronger together! As executive chef, you will not stand alone. During the season, you will have access to: leadership support from an external consultant close collaboration with the executive chef at Värdshuset and its production kitchen comprehensive onboarding ongoing support from the operations manager in areas including finance, menu development, logistics, and personnel matters Practical information: Employment: Seasonal position, late November 2026 to around April 20, 2027 Work location: Majkens, Lindvallen, Sälen Salary: By agreement Housing: Opportunity for private or shared accommodation with private bedroom available Driver's license: Not required, but an advantage as housing may be some distance from the workplace. Housing, rent, and any time bank/hour bank arrangements are determined individually. Four Service collaborates with Lindvallen Restauranger AB (LRAB) in this recruitment and is responsible for the entire recruitment process. Once recruitment is complete, LRAB becomes your employer. Does this sound like the right challenge for you? Submit your application to Four Service at [email protected]. Selection and interviews are ongoing. If you have any questions, you are welcome to call us at 08-578 578 00. Since its founding in 1989, Four Service has been part of Sweden's thriving restaurant scene. We help restaurants of all kinds and in all corners of the country with recruitment and staffing of quality personnel. Always open office, always available. Learn more at www.fourservice.se