Chef de Cuisine – Winter 26/27

Canadian Rocky Mountain Resorts; Lake Louise; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Canadian Rocky Mountain Resorts seeks a visionary Chef de Cuisine to redefine the culinary direction and elevate the guest experience at Whitehorn Bistro in Lake Louise. You will partner with the Executive Chef to drive growth, profitability, and innovation while maintaining exceptional service standards.

The role focuses on leading a talented culinary team, developing seasonal menus, cost control, and ensuring consistent quality across outlets.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience in high-volume kitchens.
• Strong understanding of menu development and costing.
• Commitment to safety and high-quality guest service.

Responsibilities

• Assist in day-to-day operations across multiple restaurants and catering facilities.
• Coach staff and enforce policies to achieve results by communicating expectations, planning, monitoring and appraising performance.
• Forecast requirements, analyze variances and initiate corrective actions to meet financial goals.
• Drive the culinary program at Whitehorn Bistro through innovation and strong culinary expertise.
• Assist with payroll processing and contribute to annual budgets and strategic plans.
• Create and develop innovative new concepts, menus and promotions.

Job description

Job Description:

The successful candidate will have a reputation for creative excellence and impeccable customer service. Working closely with the Executive Chef, the Chef de Cuisine will play an integral role in redefining the company’s culinary direction, redesigning the culinary experience for our guests and seeking opportunities for growth, while maximizing profitability.

Job Responsibilities:

• Assist in the management of day-to-day operations in numerous restaurants and catering facilities
• Accomplish positive staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching employees; enforcing policies, developing and coordinating procedures, and productivity standards.
• Assist the Executive Chef in accomplishing financial objectives and strategic goals by forecasting requirements; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Drive the culinary program at Whitehorn Bistro through innovation and strong culinary background
• Assist with the processing of Bi-weekly payroll and contribute to the preparation of the annual budgets and strategic plans to achieve goals
• Create and develop innovative new concepts, menus and promotions
• Ensure a high standard of consistency and quality products and services while adhering to targets
• Assist with the recruitment and selection process of all levels of culinary staff
• Provide a “hands on” approach in the leadership of the culinary team in Whitehorn Bistro
• Create seasonal menus Following our “taste of place concepts”
• Assist with menu costing and developing and updating departmental guidelines and procedures
• Aid the Executive Chef in ordering and inventory of food products, ensuring to both eliminate outages or shorts and participate in any opportunities to minimize inventory levels, minimizing capital while ensuring guests’ expectations are exceeded.
• Encourage new concepts to be brought forth, and demonstrate a positive attitude to motivate and encourage good team morale.
• Uphold a safe working environment and be Health and Safety conscious and actively involved in maintaining and improving a safe work environment. Ensure maintenance requests, incident reports and incident investigations are submitted and followed up with.
• Prepare weekly staff schedules, assign activities, and monitor staffing levels in conjunction with determined budgets.
• Meet with the Executive Chef on a daily and required basis as the Executive Chef determines necessary to discuss any operational aspects of the kitchen.
• Assign work and side duties to staff in accordance with departmental procedures. Communicate additions or changes to the assignments as they arise throughout the shift. Identify situations which compromise the LLSA’s standards and delegate these tasks.