Sous Chef
Visa sponsorship
Hospitality · Sydney, NSW, Australia · Full-Time · $85,000 - $90,000/yr · Visa: Employer sponsored
Sydney's kitchen leadership team has room for a Sous Chef who is experienced, motivated and dependable. The restaurant is high-volume and fast, with a modern à la carte menu, and the work is hands-on: you will be close to the Head Chef and well suited if you enjoy a hectic service and care about teamwork, consistency, cleanliness and organisation.
Visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
Sous chef applications are won by detail. Name the restaurants where you ran a pass, your grill and pasta experience, the sizes of the teams you have supervised and the systems you used for ordering and waste. Show how you trained junior cooks, then draft a sous chef CV with Build AI CV so a busy head chef can read it quickly.
Key Responsibilities
- Back up the Head Chef in running the kitchen day to day
- Guide the brigade through busy services
- Move between sections, grill and pasta above all
- Help shape fresh dishes and seasonal menus, and improve current recipes
- Coach and support junior chefs
- Keep the kitchen clean, safe and organised
- Handle prep, stock rotation, ordering and waste, making sure every section is stocked and ready before service starts
Requirements & Eligibility
- A minimum of 1 year working as a Sous Chef in a busy à la carte restaurant
- Strong high-volume kitchen experience
- Excellent cooking, especially on grill and pasta
- Leadership and communication that are strong, with a record of training and supervising kitchen staff
- An eye for detail and a commitment to cleanliness
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