Head Chef

Careers at UAE; Ras Al Khaimah; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Careers at UAE is seeking a Head Chef to lead the kitchen operations and deliver an exceptional guest and member experience. The role requires managing all culinary and administrative tasks, training staff, and maintaining compliance with health and safety regulations.

The Head Chef will focus on controlling costs, ensuring high-quality food and service, and coordinating with outlets to meet business needs and market trends. Strong leadership and communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Catering managerial experience
• Strong leadership and team management
• Experience managing food costs
• Excellent communication and customer service
• Ability to work under pressure
• Intermediate food hygiene qualification

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of the kitchen including operational, quality and administrative functions
• Seek verbal feedback from customers and respond to queries promptly
• Ensure adequate resources according to business needs
• Oversee food provision to outlets and ensure compliance with regulations
• Control costs while maintaining standards and margins
• Ensure staff know menu items, promotions, and events
• Maintain communication with other hotel areas and staffing levels
• Conduct monthly meetings and record minutes
• Manage performance issues and train the kitchen team
• Comply with health, safety and food safety legislation
• Maintain maintenance, hygiene and hazard controls

Job description

Head Chef

A Head Chef is responsible for managing all aspects of the kitchen to deliver an excellent Guest and Member experience while seeking customer feedback, training staff, controlling costs, and covering all business needs.

What will I be doing?

As a Head Chef, you are responsible for managing all aspects of the kitchen to deliver an excellent Guest and Member experience. A Head Chef will also be required to ensure that all operational, quality, and administrative functions are carried out properly. Specifically, you will be responsible for performing the following tasks to the highest standards:

• Manage all aspects of the kitchen including operational, quality and administrative functions
• Actively seek verbal feedback from customers on a regular basis and respond to all guest queries in a timely and efficient manner
• Ensure adequate resources are available according to business needs
• Manage the provision of food to Food and Beverage outlets and taking action where necessary to ensure compliance with current legislation
• Control costs without compromising standards, improving gross profit margins and other departmental and financial targets
• Ensure team members have an up-to-date knowledge of menu items, special promotions, functions and events
• Maintain good communication and work relationships in all hotel areas
• Ensure that staffing levels are maintained to cover business demands
• Ensure monthly communication meetings are conducted and post‑meeting minutes generated
• Manage staff performance issues in compliance with company policies and procedures
• Recruit, manage, train and develop the kitchen team
• Comply with hotel security, fire regulations and all health and safety and food safety legislation
• Ensure maintenance, hygiene and hazard issues are dealt with in a timely manner
• Manage financial performance of the department so all planning is in line with hotel objectives
• Ensure food control systems are adhered to so margins are on target
• Regular review of all menus with Food and Beverage manager to confirm offerings are in line with market trends
• Be environmentally aware

What are we looking for?

A Head Chef serving Hilton brands is always working on behalf of our Guests and working with other Team Members. To successfully fill this role, you should maintain the attitude, behaviours, skills, and values that follow:

• Catering experience in managerial capacity
• Experience managing a kitchen and developing staff
• Experience managing food costs
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal and communication skills
• Accountable and resilient
• Committed to delivering a high level of customer service
• Ability to work under pressure
• Intermediate food hygiene qualification
• Flexibility to respond to a range of different work situations

It would be advantageous to demonstrate the following capabilities and distinctions

• Previous kitchen experience in similar role
• Passion for food
• Knowledge of current food trends
• Advance food hygiene qualification
• High level of IT proficiency