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Head Chef

Mama Shelter Dubai
Dubai, UAE
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Onsite
Discovered 6 days ago
Kitchen operationsTeam leadershipCulinary productionFood quality controlFood cost managementPortion control
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Company Description

Mama Shelter creates urban living spaces combining hospitality, restaurants, design, and local influences.

Mama Shelter is part of Ennismore, a creative hotel group with brands across cultures and destinations.

The company emphasizes guest experience, internal development, and international mobility.

Role Overview

The Head Chef leads the kitchen, inspires the culinary team, and ensures every dish is delicious, consistent, and aligned with Mama Shelter standards.

Core Responsibilities

  • Lead daily kitchen operations and ensure smooth, efficient, and organized food production and service.
  • Lead, motivate, coach, and develop the kitchen team while fostering a positive and collaborative culture.
  • Ensure dishes meet standards for quality, taste, freshness, portioning, timing, and presentation.
  • Conduct quality checks and take action when food or service does not meet standards.
  • Monitor food costs, portion control, stock, wastage, and product usage.
  • Maintain hygiene, sanitation, HACCP, food safety, and safe food handling standards.
  • Maintain and organize kitchen equipment, storage, refrigerators, freezers, and food products.
  • Provide hands-on training and guidance to culinary team members.
  • Explore culinary trends and techniques and bring fresh ideas to the kitchen.
  • Support the Executive Sous Chef and wider food and beverage team.

Candidate Profile

  • The candidate should be comfortable staying focused, organized, and composed in a busy kitchen.
  • The candidate should demonstrate natural leadership and the ability to bring people together.
  • The candidate should maintain high quality standards from preparation through final plating.
  • The candidate should understand food cost, wastage, portion control, and stock management.
  • The candidate should solve problems quickly and keep kitchen operations moving.
  • The candidate should value learning, teamwork, trust, respect, communication, reliability, and consistency.

Additional Qualities

The candidate should be approachable and positive with guests and teammates.

The candidate should build guest connections and create lasting impressions.

The candidate should contribute to a supportive, family-like team atmosphere.

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