The Riverview Hotel & Birchgrove Restaurant is hiring a CDP and/or Junior SoousChef role in Balmain, NSW. Requirements for this role:

More than 4 years of relevant work experience required for this role

Casual transitioning to full time hours

Looking for candidates who are available to work:

Any time

Full Working rights required for this role

An experienced Chef is needed to lead the Birchgrove Restaurant at the Riverview Hotel in Balmain. This role involves strong leadership, deep fine dining knowledge, and a passion for delivering exceptional hospitality are essential. Come join a dynamic team and be part of an unforgettable dining experience.

General Management

- Running the kitchen when the head chef is away.
- Apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
- Make business decisions based on information provided, as well as on your own experience and personal opinions.
- Work on own initiative to deal with problems and opportunities.
- Communicate a vision of success which the team want to be part of

Brand & quality control

- Maintain an operating environment that assures consistent guest and staff satisfaction.
- Monitors the performance of the kitchen outputs through verification and analysis of guest satisfaction and initiates corrective action where necessary.
- Maintains product and service quality standards by conducting ongoing evaluations and deal with any customer complaints in an appropriate and timely manner.
- Help prepare and ensure recipe cards for all dishes, tasting notes for food are available.
- Ensure the kitchen staff prepare dishes to specification.
- Comply with operating policies and procedures.
- Inspire & motivate the team to achieve food specifications and therefore achieve sales and profits.
- Leads by example, setting the pace and standards.

Day to day running of operations

- Maintains effective open-door communication system that crosses departmental lines in order to reach all staff.




- Orders and/or oversees that the food stock are appropriate to sales levels.
- Ensures all stock is secure and no loss of stock, rotation is followed, defective or sub-standard product is returned with the appropriate paperwork and the supplier contacted
- Ensure food preparation for service are appropriate to sales levels.
- Helping create new recipes and write menus.
- Assisting the head chef in managing food and volume KPIs
- Assisting the head chef in developing and supporting junior staff
- Ensure recipes and preparation requirements food are met.
- Ensure readiness for service and the staffing is set for expected sales levels.
- Ensure all food is presented for service in a timely and professional manner.
- Engage with management and customers to assist with food and beverages packages available for functions at the hotel.
- Assist in preparation of plans for events including assigning tasks about the event to staff and external parties such as suppliers and oversee the set-up and execution of the event.
- Maintains applicable preventive maintenance programs to protect the physical assets of the hotel and deal with or raise maintenance issues to ensure correct operation of all hotel equipment.

Compliance

- Maintain an understanding of the government regulations affecting the kitchen’s operations, ensuring kitchen is operated in compliance with all applicable laws, ordinances, regulations, and requirements of any federal, state or municipal authority. These regulations include but are not limited to
- Safety including emergency and security procedures.
- Licensing laws.
- Maintain the necessary certifications e.g. Food Safety Certificate to work in the hotel.
- Ensure staff uniforms and personal hygiene requirements are adhered to.
- Monitor and ensure controls are followed to enable government regulations affecting hotel’s operations are always met.

Reporting

You will report to the Head Chef of the Hotel.

Competitive pay based on experience, flexible schedule, fulltime roster available for right candidate. If you have a passion for the restaurant industry, we’d love to hear from you!

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