• Application Deadline:
• Position: Asian Chef de Cuisine


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 2 - 4 years


• Location Lagos


• City Ikeja


• Job Field Catering / Confectionery 
  

Job Summary

• Accountable for the quality, consistency and production of the restaurant kitchen.


• Exhibits culinary talents by personally performing tasks while leading the staff and managing all food related functions.


• Coordinates menus, purchasing, staffing and food preparation for the property's restaurant.


• Works with team to improve guest and employee satisfaction while maintaining the operating budget.


• Must ensure sanitation and food standards are achieved. Develops and trains team to improve results.

Core Work Activities

Ensuring Culinary Standards and Responsibilities are Met for Restaurant:

• Develops, designs, or creates new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions for restaurant.


• Supervises restaurant kitchen shift operations and ensures compliance with all Food & Beverage policies, standards and procedures.


• Maintains food preparation handling and correct storage standards.


• Recognizes superior quality products, presentations and flavor.


• Plans and manages food quantities and plating requirements for the restaurant.


• Communications production needs to key personnel.


• Assists in developing daily and seasonal menu items for the restaurant.


• Ensures compliance with all applicable laws and regulations regulations.


• Follows proper handling and right temperature of all food products.


• Estimates daily restaurant production needs.


• Prepares and cooks foods of all types, either on a regular basis or for special guests or functions.


• Checks the quality of raw and cooked food products to ensure that standards are met.


• Determines how food should be presented and creates decorative food displays.

Leading Kitchen Team:

• Supervises and coordinates activities of cooks and workers engaged in food preparation.


• Utilizes interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and encourage others; advocates sound financial/business decision making; demonstrates honesty/integrity; leads by example.


• Leads shift teams while personally preparing food items and executing requests based on required specifications.


• Supervises and manages restaurant kitchen employees. Managing all day-to-day operations. Understanding employee positions well enough to perform duties in employees' absence.


• Encourages and builds mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.


• Serving as a role model to demonstrate appropriate behaviors.


• Ensuring and maintaining the productivity level of employees.


• Ensures employees are cross-trained to support successful daily operations.


• Ensures employees understand expectations and parameters.


• Establishes and maintains open, collaborative relationships with employees and ensures employees do the same within the team.

Establishing and Maintaining Restaurant Kitchen Goals:

• Sets and supports achievement of kitchen goals including performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc.


• Developing specific guidance and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish daily kitchen operations work.


• Understands the impact of kitchen operation on the overall property financial goals and objectives and manages to achieve or exceed budgeted goals.


• Effectively investigates, reports and follows-up on employee accidents.


• Knows and implements company safety standards.

Ensuring Exceptional Customer Service:

• Provides services that are above and beyond for customer satisfaction and retention.


• Manages day-to-day operations, ensuring the quality, standards and meeting the expectations of the customers on a daily basis.


• Improves service by communicating and assisting individuals to understand guest needs, providing guidance, feedback, and individual coaching when needed.


• Sets a positive example for guest relations.


• Emphasizes guest satisfaction during all departmental meetings and focuses on continuous improvement.


• Empowers employees to provide excellent customer service.


• Handles guest problems and complaints.


• Interacts with guests to obtain feedback on product quality and service levels.

Managing and Conducting Human Resource Activities:

• Identifies the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.


• Participates in training restaurant staff on menu items including ingredients, preparation methods and unique tastes.


• Manages employee progressive discipline procedures.


• Participates in the employee performance appraisal process, providing feedback as needed.


• Uses all available on the job training tools for employees.


• Assists as needed in the interviewing and hiring of employee team members with appropriate skills.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Provides information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.


• Analyzes information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.


• Attends and participates in all pertinent meetings.

Candidate Profile

Education and Experience:

• High School Doploma or GED; 4 years experience in the culinary, food and beverage, or related professional area. Or


• 2-year Degree from an accredited university in Culinary Arts, Hotel and Restaurant Management, or related major; 2 years experience in the culinary, food and beverage, or related professional area.

Rewards for Work, Benefits for Life

You’ll be supported in and out of the workplace through:

• Discounts on hotel rooms, gift shop items, food and beverage


• Learning and development opportunities


• Recognition programs


• Wellbeing programs


• Encouraging management


• Team-spirited colleagues.