Description

Primary Objective of Position

Plans and directs the overall kitchen operations including staff and ensuring the quality of food items.

Essential Functions

• Develop and plan menus with Senior Leadership.
• Must stay current with trends in the industry.
• Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Hire, train, supervise and evaluate staff.
• Maintain the kitchen and surrounding areas in conditions that meet the company standards and health code regulations.
• Assisting and directing kitchen staff in meal preparation, creation, plating, and delivery.
• Supervising activities of all kitchen staff, including sous chefs, cooks, and dishwashers
• Scheduling all kitchen staff
• Create costed recopies for all culinary offerings.
• Ensuring all food costs percentages are respected by correctly costed recipes.
• Control and eliminate any unnecessary food wastage.
• Ensure the correct usage and maintenance of all kitchen equipment.
• Control consistency of recipes with regards to presentation and quantities
• Be accessible and responsive to any questions or concerns regarding culinary issues.
• Ensuring the Joia Beach standards with regards to signature dishes.
• Participating in management meetings whenever necessary.
• Create specials and special menus when needed.
• Collaborate with the events team to design menus for corporate events, ensuring that food quality and presentation meet client expectations.
• Working with Marketing PR and Operations departments to enhance and execute promoted offerings and culinary programing.
• Managing the ordering, purchasing, and inventory of all food related products from approved vendors.
• Ensuring appropriate health and safety standards and food safe practices are followed and implemented.
• Carrying out performance management of kitchen staff.
• Be active in recipe research and development.
• Monitoring the development of apprentices.

Physical Demands

• This position requires long hours of standing, walking, bending, and squatting.
• It is a must that this person is physically able to lift and carry up to 20 pounds or more.
• This position may require you to work in adverse weather conditions like rain, cold and the summer heat.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Formal training from an accredited Culinary Institute with 7 years’ experience.
• Familiar with a variety of field concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience in a high-volume restaurant environment.
• Be up to date on current global culinary trends and implement trends accordingly.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deal with high-pressure situations.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Bilingual.
• Good decision-making and organizational skills.
• Ability to create and cost menus and specials using excel.
• Capable of creating basic Excel and Word documents whenever needed.
• Ability to manage food and labor costs to meet targets.
• A solid understanding of employment standards and regulations.
• Proficient in health & safety and food safe rules and regulations.
• Assume the role of liaison between all floor operations and kitchen.
• Supervise the preparation and cooking of various food items.
• Develop and implement creative menu items within the Joia Beach culinary concept.
• Plan, coordinate and implement culinary offerings for special events and private functions.
• Manage hourly kitchen employees through scheduling, payroll, training, coaching, evaluating, and hiring.

Associations

Report directly to the General Manager and Director of F&B Operations.

Supporting Functions

In addition to performance of the essential functions above, I must support my team and any other special tasks assigned on an ad hoc basis by the F&B Director

Note:

A review of this of this description has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties, all duties and requirements are essential job functions.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. associates will be required to perform any other job related duties assigned by their supervisor.

This document does not create an employment contract implied or otherwise other than an at will employment relationship.