Chef
Visa sponsorship
Hospitality · Auckland, New Zealand · Full-Time · $32/hr · Visa: Employer sponsored
Auckland, New Zealand has an opening for a Chef de Partie who wants a section to call their own. You would sit beneath the Head Chef and Sous Chef, alongside the wider kitchen team, and take in preparation, service, stock and food quality so that service runs without friction.
The post is aimed at chefs who treat cooking as a profession and can back up their record with genuine, verifiable employment and skills details.
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Key Responsibilities
- Take charge of the daily preparation and running of your allocated section
- Cook, plate and present dishes to a consistently high standard, including international-style dishes for a professional dining room
- Do mise en place and service prep each day
- Report to the Head Chef and Sous Chef while showing initiative in your own section
- Help prepare daily specials and seasonal menus, and put forward ideas for menu development
- Use ingredients responsibly, protecting quality while keeping food costs in check
- Leave prep areas clean, organised and service-ready, holding high standards of personal hygiene, food safety and sanitation
- Monitor stock and tell senior kitchen staff what ingredients are needed
- Receive, check and put away deliveries, rotating stock through chillers, freezers and dry storage, and cut waste through careful prep and storage
- Stay composed and efficient during high-volume services, and join team meetings, training, supplier visits and development activities
- Learn local New Zealand ingredients and produce, speak courteously to guests when needed, build good relationships in a multicultural team, back up colleagues and complete other reasonable duties set by senior kitchen management
Requirements & Eligibility
- Has worked professionally as a Chef de Partie or in a similar commercial kitchen role
- Cooks food to professional standards
- Hands-on experience running one kitchen section
- Solid grasp of food preparation, kitchen hygiene and food safety procedures
- Self-sufficient yet a real contributor to the team, and steady in a fast-paced kitchen
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Dependable, professional and positive
- Careful with detail and committed to food quality, with a passion for culinary work and a willingness to develop professionally
- Respectful of colleagues in a multicultural team
- Well organised, with good time management; relevant culinary qualifications are advantageous
- Can supply genuine, verifiable evidence of professional experience and claimed skills, and applicants from overseas must meet the applicable New Zealand employment, immigration and sponsorship requirements
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