Executive Chef at JohnWood Hotel by Bolton Full Time

Job Title: Executive Chef

Location: Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• Accountable for the overall success of the daily kitchen operations. Exhibits culinary talents by personally performing tasks while leading the staff and managing all food-related functions. Works to continually improve guest and employee satisfaction while maximizing financial performance in all areas of responsibility.
• Supervises all kitchen areas to ensure a consistent, high-quality product is produced. Responsible for guiding and developing staff including direct reports.
• Must ensure sanitation and food standards are achieved. Areas of responsibility comprise overseeing all food preparation areas (e.g., stewarding, banquets, room service, restaurants, bar/lounge and employee cafeteria) and all support areas (e.g., storeroom and purchasing).

Major Responsibilities

• Leads kitchen management team.
• Provides direction for all day-to-day operations.
• Understands employee positions well enough to perform duties in employees’ absence or determine appropriate replacement to fill gaps.
• Utilizes interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and encourage others; advocates sound financial/business decision making; demonstrates honesty/integrity; leads by example.
• Reviews staffing levels to ensure that guest service, operational needs and financial objectives are met.
• Establishes and maintains open, collaborative relationships with employees and ensures employees do the same within the team.
• Supervises and coordinates activities of cooks and workers engaged in food preparation.
• Demonstrate new cooking techniques and equipment to staff.
• Develops and implements guidelines and control procedures for purchasing and receiving areas.
• Communicates the importance of safety procedures, detailing procedure codes, ensuring employee understanding of safety codes, monitoring processes and procedures related to safety.
• Knows and implements the brand’s safety standards.
• Provides direction for menu development.
• Monitors the quality of raw and cooked food products to ensure that standards are met.
• Determines how food should be presented, and create decorative food displays.
• Recognizes superior quality products, presentations and flavor.
• Ensures compliance with food handling and sanitation standards.
• Follows proper handling and right temperature of all food products.
• Ensures employees maintain required food handling and sanitation certifications.
• Identifies the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
• To conduct any other reasonable duty as directed by the management.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or its equivalent in a related discipline.
• Minimum Experience: 5 years in a similar role in the hospitality industry.
• Relevant certification will be an added advantage.

Job Specification:

• Integrity and Loyalty
• Oral and written communication
• Excellence driven and Results-oriented
• People Management Skills
• Display positive energy and enthusiasm
• Safety awareness
• Development of subordinates
• Adaptability
• Technical/Professional knowledge
• To be able to take initiative and make decisions.

Application Closing Date
28th August, 2021.