Job Vacancy: Apleona Limited require a Chef de Partie for their Donegal Town Plant.
Position Title: Chef de Partie
Location: Client Site
Reporting to: Head of Catering
Overall Purpose of the Job
The successful candidate will be responsible for co-ordinating the day to day operation on the ground, co-ordinating the maintenance, caretaking, cleaning and catering departments
Main duties and responsibilities
- To manage the supervision and control of all food and beverage from the Kitchen, overall responsibility to provide high quality food in all areas whilst taking control of GP% and Costings.
- To ensure that the service of all meals is to the standard laid down by the Company and meets the Client’s specification
- To obtain supplies and purchases from Company appointed suppliers or site specific
- To ensure that the control of raw materials and portions are to the Company’s standards as applicable
- To ensure all food is prepared using fresh and local produce whilst maintaining a high standard of quality and presentation
- To ensure all purchases and deliveries of fresh produce/dry goods are of the highest standard.
- To ensure that methods of food preparation, production and presentation comply with standards and Client specification
- To complete and maintain all legislative paperwork as required by law including the Apleona Kitchen Diary is completed using the handheld tablet
- To maintain the Company standard of hygiene and safety and take any action as is necessary.
- To adhere to the company covid guidelines and safe practices in place here on site
- To develop and update cleaning schedules as and when necessary
- To take all necessary steps to ensure the security of the kitchen, stores, orders and any other area
- To ensure that all areas under the Chef’s control are left clean and tidy at all times and that all equipment is switched off at the end of each shift
- To ensure that any problems with food quality are identified and dealt with or reported promptly to the appropriate person.
- To maintain satisfactory relationships at all appropriate levels of the Client organisation
- To attend to all customer complaints and compliments within the guidelines and timeframes as laid down by the contract and Account Director
- To ensure admin procedures are handled in conjunction with Line Manager
- To conduct regular security checks
- To ensure that all deliveries are received and recorded as per company requirements
- To ensure all new staff are inducted into the Canteen and kitchen procedures
- To maintain tight stock control on ALL produce through bookwork, wastage, weekly stock takes to deliver a comprehensive business model
- Design and roll out a recipe data base for your core items and menus
- Review and update the current hospitality menus and offer
- Deliver weekly menu planning and engineering ensuring that they are set in a monthly cycle
- To attend and take all necessary action, statutory or otherwise in the event of accident, fire, theft, lost property, damage, unfit food or other irregularities
- To attend meetings, conferences and training courses as requested
- To attend to any other reasonable request made by management
Competencies
- Ability to understand and have a high standard in practice Health and Safety in the Kitchen
- Ability to produce and execute healthy, balanced meals using local produce and any reducing Food Waste
- Have the ability to multi-task, in a high energy production kitchen while producing a high standard of food
- To ensure that all COSHH policies and procedures are fully understood and followed at all times.
- Communicate details of any accidents to the manager so that the correct action may be taken
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to balance competing priorities and workloads
- Relationship management skills that enable you to work with people at all levels and across diverse nationalities
- Effective relationship developer, who can contribute to a team based culture
- Ability to champion, support and deliver business initiatives
- Ability to act decisively
- Ability to work unsupervised and take responsibility
- Ability to remain calm under pressure
- Ability to demonstrate initiative and offer new ideas
- Adaptable and flexible in approach to work required
- Willingness and ability to work as a member of a team
- Application to detail and presentation
- Commercially and financially astute
- Ability to drive operational excellence across a multi-client portfolio
- Highly developed influencing and relationship management skills
- Ability to work strategically and delegate operational activity
- Effective net-worker and relationship developer, who can contribute to a team based culture
- Ability to champion, support and deliver business initiatives
- True leadership skills necessary to achieve ambitious targets
- And remain calm under pressure
Qualifications and Experience
- HACCP
- Previous experience within a working kitchen
- Knowledge of Kitchen Health & Safety Procedures and all Legislative Requirements
- Costing and Menu Planning
- Stock Control
- High Quality Food Production
- Recognised Professional Culinary Qualification
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to make on the spot decisions
- Knowledge of audit requirements
- Excellent customer service skills
- Must possess organisational skills
- Excellent people management and communication skills
- Must be self-motivated and able to motivate others
- Strong creativity and innovation required when implementing or assisting new menu concepts.
All inquiries to be sent to: clive.gallagher@abbott.com
The position is full-time and Mon-Fri, 39h week.
Pay rates to be discussed at interview stage.
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