Chef
Visa sponsorship
Hospitality · Queenstown, New Zealand · Full-Time · $27/hr · Visa: Employer sponsored
A Queenstown, New Zealand restaurant business is looking for a seasoned Chef who is ready to carry more responsibility for food quality, team performance and everyday kitchen operations. Menu input, stock, supplier liaison and running a busy kitchen are all part of it, with scope to move into bigger duties.
Sponsorship is available for eligible candidates. Selection turns on demonstrated experience and professional background, so senior kitchen time and tidy documents will help your case.
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Key Responsibilities
- Maintain consistent food presentation and quality
- Prepare, cook and finish dishes to recipes and service needs
- Inspect ingredients for quality and freshness
- Clean, chop, blend, season, heat and cool ingredients, monitoring time and temperatures
- Adapt preparation to dietary and special needs
- Direct preparation and service and help lead up to 12 kitchen employees
- Cover different sections as needed
- Check deliveries, report poor stock and store ingredients correctly
- Monitor supplies, inventory and equipment
- Assist purchasing and supplier coordination
- Contribute recipes, menus and improvements
- Maintain accurate processes through digital accountability and reporting
- Monitor food use, costs and labour
- Report performance to management
- Promote professional teamwork through busy and quiet trading
- Identify and resolve operating problems
- Maintain clean equipment and kitchen hygiene under safety procedures
- Improve operating systems and service standards
Requirements & Eligibility
- Minimum 3 years' professional kitchen experience
- Established restaurant, hospitality venue or commercial kitchen background
- Senior or responsible kitchen experience
- Verifiable relevant employment history
- Demonstrable practical cooking and preparation
- Knowledge of professional operating procedures
- Confidence across multiple sections
- Capacity to coordinate and support cooks
- Kitchen supervision or leadership experience is highly desirable
- Knowledge of presentation, quality, dietary needs and safe preparation
- Stock, inventory and supply experience
- Understanding of food costs and efficiency is advantageous
- Menu or recipe development experience is advantageous
- Calm, efficient service
- Strong communication and teamwork with professionalism and willingness to take responsibility
- Effective supplier and management relationships
- Willingness to learn restaurant accountability and reporting systems
- Fluent spoken, reading and written English; Supporting qualification and employment documents; candidates must satisfy applicable New Zealand employment and visa requirements
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