Job Ref: 11837
Branch: Apex City Quay Hotel Spa
Location: Apex City Quay Hotel and Spa , Dundee
Salary/Benefits: £33127 plus excellent benefits and perks
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Hours per week: 40
Posted date: 25/02/2025
Closing date: 10/04/2025

ROLE OVERVIEW:

This is a great time to join our team as a Sous Chef/Grill Chef as you will play a pivotal role in delivering exceptional grilled fare and maintaining our reputation for culinary excellence. You will work closely with our supply chain partners, in house centralised services, and on property kitchen and front of teams to continue developing, researching, and implementing appropriate efficiency and quality changes across all outlets.
As a Sous Chef/Grill Chef, you will lead and manage the Quayside Bar Grill kitchen team, ensuring the correct storage, preparation, cooking and presentation of food for all food and beverage outlets are adhered to according to Company standards.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead and develop the Grill Kitchen team through teamwork, skill, initiative and communication and assume a leadership role in support of the Head Chef during all periods of service.
• To treat all clients and colleagues in a polite and courteous manner at all times. To give full co-operation to any client or colleague requiring assistance in a prompt, caring and helpful manner.
• Assist with staff training, supervising all Grill kitchen staff in the preparation, cooking and service of all dishes.
• Assist with the recruitment and selection of Grill Kitchen staff, following the Company Recruitment and Selection Process.
• Responsible for ensuring Quayside Bar Grill kitchen wage costs are controlled in line with business levels through weekly forecasting.
• Ensure that food GP’s are achieved and assist the Head Chef in achieving the budgeted food G.P. in the Quayside Bar Grill
• Ensure that the food hygiene regulations are followed at all times ensuring that the food is stored and rotated on a daily basis to eliminate wastage.
• Responsible for the people management aspects of the role, including managing attendance, performance, HS, completing reviews, 1-2-1’s, annual appraisals and training.

We love to welcome people with different experiences and from different places into our Apex family. We want to ensure you get the best experience from the role you begin your journey with us in. To excel within this role, you will have:

• Experience as a Senior Chef de Partie / Junior Sous Chef/ Sous Chef
• Food Hygiene Certificate and good awareness of Health and Safety in the work place
• Can demonstrate experience of contributing towards menu development and implementation and an awareness of current food trends
• Can demonstrate experience of assisting with cost accounting / portion and stock control and also minimising waste
• Can demonstrate experience of assisting with conducting monthly performance reviews / appraisals and recruitment
• Can demonstrate the ability to conduct individual and group training sessions with staff on key skills required within their job role.
• The ability to lead and motivate a team and conduct coaching sessions with staff, to increase their performance or confidence and the ability to conduct performance management sessions to improve the performance of staff members where falling below standard