Senior Chef
1. Role Description:
Senior Chef reports to Head Chef. This position will need to provide guidance for all aspects of the kitchen’s day-to-day operations that precludes the management of food hygiene and safety, enforcing performance and quality standards, and monitoring to ensure attainment of these goals.
2. Specific Responsibilities:
- Ensures that base food preparations are well organised for service, allowing smooth kitchen operations
- Places equipment, tools or ingredient orders in response to possible detected shortfalls
- Forecasts and assesses personnel requirements ensuring no shortage or excess of kitchen staff while keeping labour costs in control
- Ascertains that the personnel follow the regulations on hygiene, stock rotation, dates, storages, refrigerator temperature control, pest control, reporting of malfunctioning equipment, reporting of notifiable illnesses, and reporting of absenteeism, whether due to illness or otherwise
- Trains kitchen staff to maintain consistency in the highest possible standard in food production and workplace hygiene, as well as to support a continuous improvement process
3. Competencies to learn:
- Controls and directs the food preparation process efficiently and professionally
- Some understanding of computer software such as POS and Microsoft Office
- Ability in delegating and monitoring responsibilities
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
