Executive Oriental Chef
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About the Role
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group is seeking an Executive Oriental Chef to lead the Oriental and Arabic kitchen at Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi. The role involves menu planning, cost control, special events, and managing kitchen staff to the highest professional standards.
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Responsibilities
- Assist with organizing special events and special food promotions
- Maintain comprehensive product knowledge including ingredients, equipment, suppliers, markets, and current trends
- Schedule working hours of all Kitchen staff with approval of Executive Chef/Executive Sous Chef
- Assign specific duties to Unit Chef or subordinates and instruct them in their work
- Be responsible for quality of all food prepared in Oriental and Arabic Kitchen
- Coordinate with Executive Sous Chef in determining quality and quantity of daily food products
- Discuss with Executive Chef and recommend menu price adjustments
- Report to Executive Chef all staff matters, recommend promotions, transfers
- Ensure kitchen equipment is functioning properly and prevent damage or loss
- Prevent use of spoiled or contaminated products and ensure ill employees do not handle food
- Assist in budgetary and payroll expense control
- Assist in training needs analysis and performance appraisal discussions
Requirements
- Experience in the same role within luxury hotel environment; resort experience a plus
- Post graduate and/or Hotel Management School / Apprenticeship; Master Degree preferred
- Full knowledge of entire kitchen operation and sanitation requirements
- High level of creativity and quality standards
- Strong leadership quality, training techniques, communication and organizational skills
- Good English understanding, speaking, and writing; Arabic language a plus
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About the job
- Based at the Emirates palace Mandarin Oriental, Abu Dhabi within the Culinary Department, the Executive Oriental Chef is Responsible for running the Oriental and Arabic kitchen including menu planning and costing, organising special events, developing new dishes, to lead, manage and organize all asp
Duties
- Assist with organizing special events and special food promotions.
- Maintain comprehensive product knowledge including ingredients, equipment, suppliers, markets, and current trends and make recommendations for appropriate adjustments to kitchen operations accordingly.
- Schedules working hours of all Kitchen staff with approval of Executive Chef/Executive Sous Chef, taking into consideration the volume of expected business.
- Accepts flexible working hours according to the business demand.
- Attends meetings and trainings required by the Executive Chef.
- Assigns in details, specific duties to Unit Chef or subordinates and instructs them in their work.
- In charge on personal cleanliness and proper discipline of all employees under his direct supervision.
- To be responsible for the quality of all food prepared in Oriental and Arabic Kitchen. Checks constantly all dishes for its taste, temperature and visual appearance.
- Coordinates closely with the Executive Sous Chef in determining quality and quantity of daily food products to be purchased and prepared.
- Discusses with the Executive Chef and recommends menu price adjustments when necessary.
- Reports to Executive Chef all staff matters, recommends promotions, transfers and all staff related points.
- Checks with maintenance that all kitchen equipment is functioning properly.
Expectations
- Experience in the same role within luxury hotel environment, resort experience will be a plus.
- Post graduate and / or Hotel Management School / Apprenticeship. Master Degree preferred but not required.
- Full knowledge of the entire kitchen operation. Must have full knowledge of sanitation requirements in food handling, High level of creativity and quality standards. Must possess strong leadership quality, Training techniques, Proper communication and Organizational skills.
- Knows and understands the job description of all positions in his/ her department, Knows and understands policies relating to his/ her department, Checks and improves all service standards established by the company, Supervises staff activities to maximize revenue and minimize costs, Provides assist
- Required to have good English when it comes into understanding, Speaking, and Writing. Arabic language will be a plus.
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