Sous Chef - Pastry
- Full-time
- Job-Category: Culinary
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Schedule: Full-Time
Company Description
Your Fairmont Journey Starts Here:
Are you a someone with a passion for excellence and a flair for exceptional hospitality? Fairmont Udaipur Palace invites you to embark on an unforgettable journey of luxury and join our pre-opening team.
Job Description
What you will be doing:
- Review the daily operations with the pastry team, prepare the necessary food items in accordance with Fairmont standards in a timely and efficient manner
- Conduct daily shift briefings with pastry team members
- Effectively manage food costs and production control to reduce wastage
- Supervise, provide guidance and training to pastry team in all food preparation and execution of the events.
- Assist with creating menus, recipes, pictures and training materials to ensure consistency, efficiency to meet the set standards.
- Lead the charge on all Fairmont standards, train employees on menus and cooking procedures
- Kitchen maintenance and cleaning. Following food safety requirements.
- Maintaining proper rotation of product in all chillers to minimize spoilage
- Follow all safety and sanitation policies when handling food
- Ensure that all food products are handled, stored, prepared and served safely in accordance with hotel and Food Safety guidelines. Ensure that all standards and processes are completed on a daily basis, this includes but isn’t limited to filling out daily temperature logs, labelling and dating of items as well ensuring food storage areas are cleaned daily.
- Food preparation and cooking, plating, presentation
- Apply 5 Diamond and 5 Star Service Standards at all times
Qualifications
Your experience and skills include:
- Previous experience in both luxury hotel and restaurant environment is an asset
- Strong knowledge of Chocolate work and design
- Strong knowledge of restaurant dessert design
- Creative and passionate about food and customer service
- Is a self-starter and displays initiative and curiosity for all food related items
- Able to give clear direction, set expectations and provide training to team members
- Able to work without supervision and display sound decisions make skills
- Ability to read, understand and follow recipes within the guidelines
- Ability to read a prep list and determine in what sequence of order job should be complete
- Ability to multi task, prioritize and manage time efficiently to ensure job completion
- Strong organization skills
- Ability to listen, follow directions precisely to achieve the end result
- Stays current & knowledgeable of both local and global cuisine trends, applying those into our offerings
- Able to work in a fast paced, high-pressure environment
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; a team player.
- Completion of a recognized culinary program
- A neat, well-groomed appearance as per hotel standards
- Must be available to work a variety of shifts including evenings, weekends and holidays
- Career minded with strong personal initiative and a desire to achieve the department’s vision and goal
- Physically fit to stand for long periods of time and lift 20kg regularly throughout a shift
Additional Information
Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
We are an inclusive company, and our ambition is to attract, recruit and promote diverse talent.