Sous Chef | Camps Bay | Luxury Boutique Hotel

Sous Chef | Camps Bay | Luxury Boutique Hotel

We are currently looking for a young and ambitious SOUS CHEF to join the culinary team of this intimate Restaurant within the Luxury Boutique Hotel.

If fresh ingredients, creative freedom, and your herb garden excite you, this might just be your dream!

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Grade 12
• Certificate/Diploma in Culinary Arts
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in the same or similar position within 4/5-star establishment

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• Reliable, responsible, and dependable to fulfil obligations
• Attention to detail
• Willingness to lead, take charge and offer direction
• Ability to multitask
• Show initiative by taking control of a task
• Excellent communication skills
• Friendly and service orientated
• Good managerial and leadership skills
• Able to work shift

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Culinary:

• Check the quality of raw and cooked food products to ensure that standards are met
• Monitor sanitation practices to ensure that employees follow standards and regulations
• Check the quantity and quality of received products
• Order or requisition food and other supplies needed to ensure efficient operation
• Supervise and coordinate activities of cooks and workers engaged in food preparation
• Inspect supplies, equipment, and work areas to ensure conformance to established standards
• Determine how food should be presented and create decorative food displays
• Instruct cooks and other workers in the preparation, cooking, garnishing, and presentation of food
• Estimate amounts and costs of required supplies, such as food and ingredients
• Collaborate with other personnel to plan and develop recipes and menus, taking into account such factors as seasonal availability of ingredients and the likely number of customers
• Keep control of the ordering from delivery to issuing to different departments
• Maintain food quality and presentation standards
• To ensure food is prepared promptly
• Report necessary problems and shortages
• Liaise with group food custodian on all new ideas and suggestions
• Always be available to help with stock-taking measures and assist with the capturing of it
• Ensure that all HACCP standards are maintained
• Ensure that the kitchen equipment is clean and in working order at all times
• To ensure minimum wastage of raw and cooked materials
• Keep up to date with current promotions and new products
• Make sure all rules and regulations are implemented at all times throughout the kitchen
• Supervise the quality of food, work, and produce in the kitchen

Management

• Maintain uniform standards
• Roster Employees
• Manage HR-related issues within Kitchen
• Manage the hygiene of kitchen staff Keeping cleaning rosters, timesheets, order sheets, and maintenance rosters up to date and implemented
• Maintain correct staffing levels
• Correct disciplinary procedures and actions to be enforced at all times
• To ensure that all staffing issues are dealt with in the correct manner
• To maintain the status quo in the kitchen environment thus assisting to eliminate uncalled disciplinary problems
• Keep staff personal information up to date in their files
• Carry out instructions given by management
• Maintain the tidiness of all storerooms, fridges, and freezers
• Make sure that at all times the kitchen is in a hygienic, clean and orderly fashion
• Ensure that the facilities file is up to date and being correctly implemented
• Have detailed documents on opening and closing procedures of the kitchens
• To contribute and be involved in meetings and daily handovers

Starting Date: ASAP

Salary: ZAR 13 – 15 000 CTC

To apply for Sous Chef | Camps Bay | Luxury Boutique Hotel, please send your CV in WORD document with full length photo, written references and food portfolio

ONLY SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES WILL BE CONTACTED.

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