Chef
Visa sponsorship
Hospitality · Auckland, New Zealand · Full-Time · $32/hr · Visa: Employer sponsored
Auckland is hiring a Chef de Partie who wants a section of their own. You answer to the Head Chef and Sous Chef and share the load with the wider kitchen team across prep, service, stock control and food quality.
The kitchen values chefs who treat cooking as a profession and can show genuine, verifiable employment and skills details, the kind of cook who runs a station without being chased.
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Key Responsibilities
- Run your own station day to day, from prep through to service
- Cook, plate and present dishes with consistent polish
- Get mise en place and service prep done every day
- Take direction from the Head Chef and Sous Chef while showing initiative on your station
- Help develop daily specials and seasonal menu items, and share menu ideas
- Use ingredients wisely to protect quality and hold food costs down
- Cook international-style dishes for a professional dining room
- Keep prep spaces clean, orderly and ready for service, maintaining high standards of personal hygiene, food safety and sanitation
- Track stock and let senior kitchen staff know what is running low
- Take in deliveries, check and store them, and rotate stock through chillers, freezers and dry storage
- Cut waste by prepping, storing and managing stock carefully
- Stay efficient and composed when service volumes are high
- Attend team meetings, training sessions, supplier visits and development activities
- Learn the local New Zealand ingredients and produce
- Treat guests courteously when needed, build good relationships in a multicultural team, help colleagues, and take on other reasonable duties from senior kitchen management
Requirements & Eligibility
- A professional track record as a Chef de Partie, or in a comparable commercial kitchen role
- Cooks and prepares food to a professional level
- Hands-on experience looking after a single kitchen section
- Thorough understanding of food preparation, kitchen hygiene and food safety procedures
- Self-directed, yet adds real value as part of a team, and performs steadily in a fast-paced kitchen
- Communicates and relates well to others, and is dependable, professional and upbeat
- Careful with detail, committed to food quality, passionate about cooking and open to growing professionally
- Respectful and easy to work with in a multicultural team
- Well organised and good at managing time
- Culinary qualifications in a relevant field are beneficial
- Can supply genuine, verifiable evidence of professional experience and the skills claimed; applicants from overseas must meet applicable New Zealand employment, immigration, and sponsorship requirements
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