What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sous Chef position at Olshan Properties?
The Sous Chef will be professional and second in command in our kitchen, following our Executive Sous Chef’s specifications and guidelines. The successful candidate will employ its culinary and managerial skills in order to play a critical role in maintaining and enhancing our customers’ satisfaction. The ideal Sous Chef will accomplish their tasks by monitoring the daily functions of the culinary department, including providing support and guidance to the culinary team, ending in a positive guest experience.
Essential Functions
- Assist in the direction and administration of all Food & Drink operations to include, but not limited to, budgeting and forecasting, department management, policy and procedure implementation and enforcement and meeting participation and facilitation.
- Assist in monitoring and developing team member performance to include, but not limited to, providing supervision and professional development, scheduling, conducting counseling and evaluations and delivering recognition and reward.
- Greet guests immediately with a friendly and sincere welcome. Use a positive and clear speaking voice, listen to, and understand requests, respond with appropriate actions, and provide accurate information such as outlet hours and local attractions.
- Ensure that staffing levels in the kitchen are maintained to provide for optimal performance of all duties.
- Represent Executive Sous Chef in their absence.
- Administer and ensure adherence to departmental guidelines, policies, and procedures
- Responsible for smooth, efficient, cost-effective operation of restaurant food production activities, to include labor management, inventory control, use of product and adherence to all governmental sanitation standards
- Establish/oversee kitchen opening and closing operations
- Oversee food handlers in the preparation and production of all hot and cold food items.
- Approve orders for raw food ingredients necessary to prepare all items on respective restaurant menus.
- Ensure that all raw food ingredients are received and stored in the proper manner.
- Oversee all aspects of food preparation and production, ensures that standardized recipes, plating and presentation guides, portion control and garnish requirements are always adhered to.
- Organize materials to assist food handlers in the performance of their duties as needed to ensure Canopy by Hilton Boston Downtown standards for timely preparation/service of food cooked to order are met.
Supportive Functions
In addition to performance of the essential functions, this position may be required to perform a combination supportive function, with the percentage of time performing each function to be solely determined by the Executive Sous Chef and the Director of Food and Drink based upon the particular requirements of the Hotel.
Inspire your team to embrace and live Canopy by Hilton Boston Downtown DNA that we are all EPIC: Enthusiastic Positive Intuitive Caring.
Other
Regular attendance in conformance with the standards, which may be established by the hotel from time to time, is essential to the successful performance of this position. Team Members with irregular attendance will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.
Due to the cyclical nature of the hospitality industry, Team Members may be required to work varying schedules to reflect the business needs of the hotel.
Qualifications
Education:
- American Culinary Federation (ACF) certification as "Sous Chef" or culinary degree from recognized culinary institute and equivalent experience
Experience:
- 3-5 years’ experience in quantity food production, in an upscale hotel or freestanding restaurant
- 1 years Supervisory experience in multi outlet food production, in an upscale hotel environment
- Excellent culinary skills and knowledge of food productions techniques and standards One-year experience in customer service in hospitality or similar industry.
- Hilton experience preferred.
Licenses or Certificates:
- ServSafe and TiPS certified.
- First Aid and CPR certified.
Grooming:
- All Team Members must maintain a neat, clean, and well-groomed appearance according to the Olshan Properties Team Member Handbook.
Other:
- Additional language ability preferred.
- Ability to effectively deal with internal and external customers, some of whom will require high levels of patience, tact, and diplomacy to defuse anger and collect accurate information and resolve conflicts.
- This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or qualifications associated with the position.
- May perform other duties as assigned.
Our DNA is EPIC
Enthusiastic Positive Intuitive Caring
Olshan Properties is proud to provide equal opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, race, religion, sex, sexual preference, national origin, disability, veteran status, or genetics. We maintain a drug-free workplace.