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Description
The Pan Asian Sous Chef is responsible for overseeing the Pan Asian kitchen within the resort, ensuring a high standard of authentic flavors, presentation, and quality. You will need to be a creative and detail-oriented chef with a strong background in Asian cuisine who can lead and inspire a kitchen team. Your role will involve playing a key part in menu creation, food preparation, and maintaining health and safety standards to deliver an exceptional dining experience for our guests. You will collaborate with the Executive Chef to design, develop, and update menus for the Pan Asian section, incorporating fresh, seasonal ingredients. It is crucial to ensure that dishes are authentically prepared and presented with the utmost attention to detail. You will also be expected to create unique fusion dishes while staying attuned to food trends and guest preferences. Your responsibilities will include overseeing daily kitchen operations, such as food preparation, inventory management, and ensuring a smooth workflow. Monitoring quality control and consistency in all dishes served, maintaining resort standards and guest satisfaction is essential. You will need to ensure adherence to health and safety regulations to maintain a safe, clean, and organized kitchen environment. As a Pan Asian Sous Chef, you will supervise and guide kitchen staff, providing training, mentorship, and constructive feedback. Scheduling shifts and managing the kitchen team to ensure optimal productivity and teamwork will be part of your role. Encouraging a culture of collaboration, creativity, and passion within the kitchen is also important. You will assist in managing inventory and sourcing quality ingredients specific to Asian cuisine while maintaining budget and cost controls. Working with vendors to ensure a consistent supply of fresh, high-quality ingredients and monitoring and controlling food waste to ensure cost-effective use of resources will be part of your responsibilities. Occasionally interacting with guests, answering questions about menu items, special requests, and dietary preferences will also be expected. Gathering feedback to continuously improve menu offerings and guest experience is crucial for enhancing guest relations. Maintaining the highest standards of hygiene, food safety, and sanitation within the kitchen and ensuring all culinary team members comply with local and resort health regulations is essential for health, safety, and compliance. Qualifications required for this role include proven experience as a Sous Chef or similar role in Pan Asian or Asian-fusion cuisine, a culinary degree or formal training in Asian cuisine is preferred, strong knowledge of Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Korean, and other Pan Asian cooking techniques and ingredients, proficiency in kitchen management, menu planning, and food cost control, excellent leadership skills, ability to work in a high-pressure environment, exceptional creativity, attention to detail, and a passion for culinary excellence. The working conditions include being able to work long hours and stand for extended periods in a high-paced environment, willingness to work on weekends, holidays, and other peak times, and the ability to lift heavy items as needed and maintain a physically active role. The compensation for this position is a competitive salary based on experience, with benefits, and resort privileges. The application process requires submitting a resume, cover letter, and any relevant portfolio or photos of your work to jagrutiofficial93@gmail.com. This is a full-time, permanent position with benefits such as food provided and internet reimbursement, a rotational shift schedule, performance bonus, and quarterly bonus. The work location is in person.,
