Sous Chef

Your day to day

• Supervise daily kitchen activities, plan and assign work ensuring you always have the right staffing numbers and labourcost is managed effectively
• Develop your team and improve their performance through coaching, feedback and recognition
• Work with the Executive Chef to recommend or initiate any HR related actions where needed in terms of recruitment or performance management
• Drive a great working environment for teams to thrive –connect departments to create sense of one team
• Promote teamwork and quality service through daily communication and coordination within and across other departments. Communicate proactively on shift to stay informed of kitchen needs and ensure timely responses to requests
• Encourage and act on guest feedback to improve guest satisfaction
• Answer client and colleague questions about dishes and kitchen services to develop and maintain product knowledge
• Work closely with the Executive Chef on menu development, engineering, costing and training
• Maintain a strong visible presence in the kitchen to ensure quality and consistency of product delivery
• Work collaboratively with the Crowne Meetings team to balance clients and operational needs and expectations
• You’ll make sure our dishes are always at their best -we have standards -but it’s down to you to make that sure the dining experience is special and memorable for guests
• Keep an eye on competitor activity / industry innovation to develop your own ideas in the kitchen
• Make sure food and drinks are secure and stored safely –always keep stock replenished to minimise waste
• Ensure all aspects of the kitchen environment are hygienic, HACCP compliant and equipment is working properly…

What we offer

We’ll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits –including a uniform, great room discount and superb training.

Join us and you’ll become part of the family –and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together –we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care: that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve .