Sous Chef - Asian Specialty
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About the Role
Sheraton Grand Hotel, Dubai is hiring a Sous Chef specializing in Asian cuisine. The role involves supporting kitchen management, team training, menu development, and ensuring high standards of food production and safety.
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Responsibilities
- Support all aspects of kitchen management, team training, and development
- Ensure full liaison with other kitchen team members to maintain department standards
- Maintain high levels of cleanliness in production and storage areas
- Complete daily food safety records to comply with HACCP & Sous Vide SOPs
- Supervise and maintain high level of food production, preparation, and delivery
- Effective menu planning, costing, and direction
- Manage kitchen team through rotas, training, and communication meetings
- Deputize for Executive Chef/Exec Sous/Chef de Cuisine in their absence
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required
- Intermediate Health & Hygiene Certificate
- Experience in world cuisines like East Asian, South Asian, or Middle Eastern Arabic
- Experience supervising a large brigade of chefs
- Knowledge of HACCP and Sous Vide SOPs
- Ability to manage kitchen P&L
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Position Purpose
- As a senior member of the kitchen team you are responsible for supporting all aspects of kitchen management, team training and development, team planning, food budget management, menu delivery and development, food and non food purchasing and all Health and Safety aspects related to the kitchen.
Essential Functions
- Ensure full liaison with other members of the section and the Kitchen team to maintain department standards.
- Key relationship with Executive Chef, Executive Pastry Chef, Executive Sous & Sous Chefs.
- Key relationship with F&B Director, Venue Managers & Banqueting Manager and all Service staff/In Room Dining and Back of House Manager.
- Key relationship with Hotel Manager.
- When appropriate represent the Kitchen at Operations meetings, Event Order Meetings etc.
- Key relationship with the stewarding department and the stewards.
- Ensure all production areas are maintained to a high level of cleanliness.
- Ensure all food storage areas are maintained to a high level of cleanliness organized efficiently.
- Ensure all food stock items are kept at levels agreed with Executive Chef.
Specific Job Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Completion of daily required food safety records to comply with HACCP & Sous Vide SOP's
- Ability to supervise and maintain a high level of food production, preparation and delivery throughout the kitchens.
- Be knowledgeable of classic food & modern preparation, dishes and cooking.
- Have experience in world cuisines like East Asian, South Asian and or Middle Eastern Arabic.
- Have experience with working with & supervising a large brigade of chefs on a daily basis.
- Knowledge of hotel policy and fire safety procedures.
- Knowledge of Kitchen based firefighting equipment.
- To maintain high standards of personal hygiene at all times.
- Effective menu planning, implantation and direction through menu engineering, costings, recipes and photography.
- Manage the kitchen team, through department rota’s, training and communication meetings.
- Holder of an intermediate Health & Hygiene Certificate.
- Comply with all hotel food safety & HACCP related policy & procedures.
Qualification Standards
- Totally embrace the philosophy of guest and customer service and own the guests;
- Identify yourself with the hotel’s brand and operating philosophy;
- Possess a warm and friendly demeanor;
- Strive to achieve satisfaction and delight of internal and external customers;
- Are detail oriented and hands on;
- Are a team player with strong interpersonal skills;
- Have the potential to develop into a leader, motivate and develop self and other associates;
- Demonstrate self confidence, energy and enthusiasm;
- Have immaculate personal presentation e.g. grooming and conversational ability;
- Have knowledge of hotel computer systems and other IT related applications;
- Uphold ethical business practices.
Education
- Bachelor degree required.
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