Senior Chef de Partie

We are seeking a talented Senior Chef De Partie to join our amazing team at our beautiful Rotorua Hotel. Our well-regarded Sudima Lake Rotorua kitchen team offers our guests room service, a la carte and buffet for breakfast, a la carte for lunch and dinner in our restaurant, and extensive conferencing.

Requirements

• Organising and working in the kitchen service operations for the restaurant, room service and conference on a day-to-day basis
• Liaise with Executive Chef and Sous Chef
• Coordinate food production and ensure food produced is in line with kitchen recipes and standards
• Encourage and support junior chefs and kitchen assistants with training and personal development plans
• Ensure employee personal presentation is consistent with Sudima brand standards
• Effectively communicate by briefing and debriefing employees, and actively encouraging transparent communication with other departments within the hotel
• Control wastage costs by following efficient preparation methods and standard recipes
• Planning menus, estimating food and labour costs, and ordering food supplies
• Monitoring quality of dishes at all stages of preparation and presentation
• Discussing food preparation issues with Managers, Dietitians and kitchen and waiting staff
• Demonstrating techniques and advising on cooking procedures
• Preparing and cooking food
• Explaining and enforcing hygiene regulations
• May select and train staff
• May freeze and preserve foods

Benefits

• Free Life Insurance
• Digital Will
• Best Doctors teleservice
• Wellbeing programme including Health insurance discounts
• Excellent reward & recognition events
• Long service and anniversary gifts and benefits
• Staff, family and friends rates within our network of hotels
• Paid training and individual Employee Development Plans
• Training towards NZQA qualifications and our very own online digital learning platform