Senior Sous Chef - NPD (Continental cuisine)
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About the Role
Emirates Flight Catering seeks an experienced Senior Sous Chef specializing in Continental cuisine to join their New Product Development team. The role involves developing menus, scaling new products for production, and ensuring quality in an airline catering environment.
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Responsibilities
- Ensure assigned production staff carry out duties in set time frame to maintain workflow continuity
- Supervise staff in implementation process, report non conformance, and propose solutions
- Check and ensure dishing is correct in weight, presentation, and prepared as per airline specifications
- Manage production, processes, and schedules in assigned areas applying effective controls
- Handle daily operational activities, find solutions to problems, and keep Executive Sous Chefs informed
- Manage material, staff, and equipment effectively to ensure on time high quality deliveries
- Conduct daily tasting panels, checks, cascades, briefings, and reports
- Implement procedures to ensure recipe compliance and promote innovative cost reduction ideas
- Address customer expectations and issues effectively, suggest long term solutions
- Prepare, update, and maintain production sheets including breakdowns for EK and other airlines
- Understand and support lean manufacturing standards to reduce waste
Requirements
- Minimum 6 years’ experience in the culinary field
- Continental Cuisine experience is a MUST
- Experience in creating recipes, menu development and costing
- Demonstrated leadership skills to manage a large multi national workforce
- Knowledge and experience of food products and processes in a facility with extensive in house production
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of all aspects of cooking in various cuisines
- Hotel Catering equivalent in 5 star facility with excellent knowledge in all aspects of cooking
- Previous experience in high volume a la carte and/or banqueting in a large kitchen team preferential
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Overview
- We are looking for an experienced Senior Chef specializing in Continental cuisine to join our New Product Development team within an airline catering food manufacturing environment.
- This role involves developing menus and products based on client provided briefs and product enhancements and taking responsibility for implementing and scaling up new products for production while ensuring consistent quality and alignment with the BRC certification and food manufacturing processes.
Key Result Areas
- Ensure that all assigned production staff carry out their duties in a set time frame in order to maintain continuity of workflow and to prevent any subsequent delays in operations
- Shares responsibility with ESC and deputes in his absence for compliance of all policies/ procedures/ rules/ regulations of the kitchen
- Supervise staff in the implementation process in their section, report any non conformance. Propose solutions if it cannot be corrected immediately. Ensure that Sous chefs and Junior staff follow all developed specifications in terms of portion size, quantity and quality
- Check and ensure that the dishing is correct in weight, presentation and items are prepared as per airline specifications, and food products are color coded with dates
- Manages production, processes and schedules in assigned areas in accordance with policies, regulations, specifications, recipes and requirements applying effective controls
- While handling daily operational activities find solution to problems and take corrective action before they occur and ensure that the Executive Sous Chefs are kept informed about the daily production, problems encountered and actions taken
- Manage material, staff and equipment in most effective manner to ensure on time high quality deliveries in strict adherence to all the laid down procedures
- Manage any issues, focusing on products, equipment, labor topics and material management, coach team on proactive attempt at solutions
- Conduct daily tasting panels, checks, cascades, briefings and reports as and when applicable in an organized and responsible manner.
- Strictly implement procedures to ensure recipe compliance at all times while actively promoting innovative ideas for cost reduction without compromising on quality
- Address customer expectations and issues effectively and suggests long term solutions to any anomalies or improvement ideas reported or observed
- Prepare, update and maintain production sheets including separate breakdowns for EK and other airlines for the production and assembly staff
Qualifications
- Minimum of 6 years’ experience in the culinary field
- Knowledge and experience of food products and processes in a facility with extensive in house production.
- Continental Cuisine experience is a MUST.
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of all aspects of cooking in various cuisines
- Experience in creating recipes, menu development and costing
- Demonstrated leadership skills to efficiently manage a large multi national workforce
- Hotel Catering equivalent in 5 star facility with an excellent knowledge in all aspects of cooking and different cuisines
- Previous experience in high volume a la carte and / or banqueting in a large kitchen team preferential.
Skills
- Ability to provide feedback and coaching
- Ability to develop himself / herself in the current role and beyond
- Willingness to take on responsibility
- Effective delegation skills
- Problem solving and decision making ability in real time, creative and out of box thinking
- Strong organizational skills, effective Training and communication skills
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