Head Chef
Job Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity for an innovative Head Chef to manage the food services operation based on site at our Nestle contract in York.
If successful you will manager excellent food preparation and delivery within hospitality and Events and maintain all food safety and safety management systems within the food production areas on site.
Role Responsibility
- Managing the delivery of all food production.
- Responsible for all on-site training and monitoring of food personnel deliverables
- Managing direct reports time and production output to maximum efficiency
- Responsible for all opening and closing procedures with in designated areas
- Food production and quality met at all times
- Deliver on a day to day basis, the services identified in the statement of works to the required standard, ensuring that monitoring and auditing standards are met.
- To ensure overall cleanliness of the kitchen, setting standards and communicating these to all employees s that all customers enjoy well-presented professional and hygienic environment.
- Be fully conversant with the concept, presentation & delivery of all menu items & cooking methods.
- Monitor and co-ordinate the team tasks on a daily & weekly basis, so that all food and meal requirements from visitors are met to the required standard and on time.
- Ensure clear and accurate communication within the centres and the group, to promote a clear understanding of objectives, performance, initiatives and general issues.
- To utilise manpower to the optimum level of efficiency preparing duty rosters in accordance with food revenue forecasts, business trends & seasonal troughs.
The Ideal Candidate
- Experience as Head chef minimum 2 years
- Hospitality, restaurant fine dining experience
- 7061/7062 or equivalent as a minimum
- IT skills illiterate
- Strong communications skills
- Level 3 Food Safety
- Experience working in a standards /compliance environment
- Demonstrative customer focus and service skills
About the Company
In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.
We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process
