Sous Chef📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Luxury Collection is seeking a Sous Chef to oversee daily kitchen operations. This full-time role involves leading kitchen staff, managing food-related functions, and ensuring high-quality product consistency. The Sous Chef will work to enhance guest and employee satisfaction while adhering to the operating budget and maintaining sanitation and food standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage kitchen shift operations and ensure compliance with all Food & Beverage policies, standards, and procedures.
• Estimate daily production needs weekly and communicate these needs to kitchen personnel daily.
• Assist the Executive Chef with all kitchen operations and food preparation.
• Prepare and cook various types of food, for regular service or special guests and functions.
• Develop, design, or create new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
• Assist in determining food presentation and create decorative food displays.
• Maintain purchasing, receiving, and food storage standards.
• Ensure compliance with food handling and sanitation standards.
• Perform duties of kitchen managers and employees as necessary.
• Recognize superior quality products, presentations, and flavors.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
• Follow proper handling and temperature guidelines for all food products.
• Operate and maintain all department equipment and report malfunctions.
• Check the quality of raw and cooked food products to ensure standards are met.

Required Experience and Skills

• 2-5 years of experience in a similar culinary role.
• Ability to supervise and coordinate activities of cooks and workers engaged in food preparation.
• Proven capability to lead shifts while personally preparing food items and executing requests based on specifications.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and encourage others.
• Demonstrated honesty and integrity, advocating sound financial and business decision-making.
• Ability to encourage and build mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
• Serves as a role model, demonstrating appropriate behaviors.
• Maintains the productivity level of employees.
• Ensures employees understand expectations and parameters.
• Establishes and maintains open, collaborative relationships with employees and ensures team members do the same.
• Ensures property policies are administered fairly and consistently.
• Communicates performance expectations in accordance with job descriptions for each position.
• Recognizes successful performance and produces desired results.

Work Type

This is a full-time position.

Application Process

Candidates who meet the above requirements are encouraged to apply.