Sous Chef - Melbourne, Australia - gategroup

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We're looking for motivated, engaged people to help make everyone's journeys better.

The Sous Chef reports to the Executive Chef – Production and provides day-to-day leadership to the Hot Kitchen and Make and Pack teams to deliver food for our airline customers. The Sous Chef will be responsible for all aspects of food production including ensuring that food is produced in line with airline specifications, meets all quality assurance controls and HACCP, whilst managing labour, materials and waste.

Your focus areas will include:

• Assist in leading the teams to ensuring food is produced to the highest quality and food safety standards are central to maintaining standards in line with HACCP, airline specification and legislation.
• Assist in the development and implementing the production schedules.
• Manage labour in line with the budget and this includes rostering and engaging labour hire agencies.
• Manage the performance of the department including finance, compliance, productivity, labour and meals/hour KPIs.
• Provide leadership, training, coaching and guidance to your team.
• Work alongside our Culinary Excellence team to develop menu presentations to our airline customers.
• Hold daily shift briefings.

To be successful in this position, we envisage you have:

• Demonstrable experience as a Sous Chef.
• Current or previous supervisory experience working in a high volume, manufacturing, food production, and restaurant or catering environment is preferred.
• Strong, multi-focused administration and co-ordination experience in a complex, deadline orientated and fast- moving environment.
• Analytical with strong attention to detail.
• Well-developed leadership and communication skills with an ability to connect with people at all levels.
• Exposure to financial P&L, budgets, reducing costs is desirable.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products (e.g., EXCEL).
• Australia Citizenship or Permanent Residency
• Qualification in the Culinary Arts or a related field required.

If you want to be part of a team that helps make travel and culinary memories, join us

About gategroup

gategroup is the global leader in airline catering, retail-on-board and hospitality products and services. gategroup provides passengers with superior culinary and retail experiences, leveraging innovation and advanced technology solutions. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, gategroup delivers operational excellence through the most extensive catering network in the aviation industry, serving passengers from over 200 operating units in over 60 countries/territories across all continents.

We work in an exciting industry – fast-paced and ever-changing. Industry trends and customer expectations are constantly evolving and it is critical that we are agile, innovative and ready for change - and our people are our driving force. We offer attractive opportunities to be part of this fast-paced and truly international working environment.