As a Sous Chef, you’ll lead the Kitchen activities on shift and prepare our delicious food - helping create memorable experiences for guests - whenever and wherever they dine. You’ll work collaboratively with the Chef de Cuisine and kitchen brigade to ensure food quality, kitchen cleanliness, ordering and people management are kept to our high standards - to make sure the kitchen is always running smoothly. This role works collaboratively across our Restaurant, Bar, In Room Dining and Banquet production offering as required.

Your day-to-day

- Supervise daily kitchen activities, plan and assign work ensuring you always have the right staffing numbers and labour cost is managed effectively
- Work with the Chef de Cuisine to recommend or initiate any HR related actions where needed in terms of recruitment or performance management
- Promote teamwork and quality service through daily communication and coordination within and across other departments. Communicate proactively on shift to stay informed of kitchen needs and ensure timely responses to requests
- You’ll make sure our dishes are always at their best - we have standards - but it’s down to you to make that sure the dining experience is special and memorable for guests
- Make sure food and drinks are secure and stored safely – always keep stock replenished to minimise waste
- Maintain a strong visible presence in the kitchen to ensure quality and consistency of product delivery
- Contribute to departmental forecasts, plans, and departmental production reports for management along with departmental goal settings




- Maintain costing and documentation of all dishes prepared and sold from the kitchen

What we need from you

- Min certificate IV in Commercial Cookery is essential
- Min 5 years of experience in similar capacity in either hotel or restaurant environments with at least 2 years of supervisory experience in kitchen operations
- Experience working in a culinary environment servicing multiple outlets will be key and exposure to an open kitchen environment would be an advantage
- Holds a current food safety certification
- Ability to inspire passion, enthusiasm and positivity in the team to drive an engaged, winning culture
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to engage well with both the team and guests

What you can expect from us: Let’s #GoFurtherTogether and experience a place where you can be yourself, share your ideas, support your personal growth and wellbeing, and be a valued member of an inspirational team.

You’ll be rewarded for your hard work with a range of advantages that support you throughout your IHG career journey

- Freshly laundered uniform
- Proactive paid wellbeing days
- Paid birthday leave
- Enhanced parental leave
- Some of the best discounts across our IHG Hotels & Resorts for accommodation and food & beverage
- A massive discounts platform for all your favourite brands and retailers - to help your salary go further

Most importantly, your career journey will be supported through our lifelong development programs, IHG career milestone celebrations, and transfer of leave entitlements as you move and grow with IHG

📌 Sous Chef (Adelaide)
🏢 Crowne Plaza Adelaide
📍 Adelaide