Sous Chef

Roles & Responsibilities

Job Description

• Assists the Head Chef in carrying out 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
• Helps control and direct the food preparation process efficiently and professionally
• Ensures that the kitchen runs on schedule and that food and related services are of a high grade
• Supports the Head Chef in planning and coordinating tasks while keeping labor expenses in mind
• Identifies and resolves any challenges that emerge in the kitchen as well as takes charge of any potentially dangerous scenario
• Helps create meals using new or current culinary inventions or as the business prescribes
• Approves and polishes dishes before they are delivered and served to customers
• Produces quality menu that could change seasonally as the business requires
• Places equipment, tools or ingredient orders in response to possible detected shortfalls
• When required and directed, makes arrangements for repairs of cooking equipment
• When directed by the Head Chef, hires, manages, trains and educates kitchen workers to be par with the highest possible culinary standards
• Manages kitchen stocks and ensures minimal wastage
• Assists to forecast and assess personnel requirements ensuring no shortage or excess of kitchen staff while keeping labor costs in control
• Helps purchase, store, and handle all food products and materials within the agreed-upon budget and to maximize gross profit to include the effective staff management and staff salary
• Helps supervise subordinates’ work on dishes and guides them, at times hand holding them, to produce the best expected outcome
• Assists in ensuring that base food preparations and mise en place are well organized for service, allowing smooth kitchen operations
• When required, regulates the workload of junior kitchen staff
• Helps train 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
• Helps maintain punctuality and attendance records
• Follows and strictly implements all food and sanitary rules as well as safety guidelines
• Encourages coworkers to cooperate and respect one another, motivates team work
• Keeps updated in the latest trends in culinary trends and kitchen processes and technologies
• Helps in the sourcing of food raw materials to ensure quality dishes and coordinates with vendors to guarantee reliability of ingredient supplies at the best possible quality within the department’s food cost target set by management
• Assists in the preparation of duty rotas for kitchen staff to provide appropriate coverage at all times while accounting for the seasonality of the business and keeping overtime to the minimum
• Ensures that staff are aware of the job list and the different sections it covers such as meal schedules, functions, and holidays
• Helps the Head Chef to ascertain 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
• If and when directed by the Head Chef, keeps recipe files in excellent condition and up-to-date
• Undertakes any other duties and ad hoc related roles as the business requires

Qualifications

Tell employers what skills you have

Recipes

Ingredients

Microsoft Office

cooking skills

Food Safety

Cooking

Sanitation

food ingredients

Reliability

Raw Materials

Restaurant Management

Good Communication Skills

Attention to Detail

HACCP

Excess

Staff Management

Hazard Analysis

Culinary Arts