Sous Chef, Full Time

COMPASS GROUP CANADA; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Compass Group Canada is seeking a Sous Chef to lead daily food operations, supervise a team, and ensure quality and cost controls. You will plan menus, manage inventories, train staff, and ensure compliance with safety and QA programs.

This role emphasizes HACCP standards and high standards of service for events and daily meals. The successful candidate will have strong leadership, excellent communication, and adaptability to a fast-paced environment, including evenings and weekends.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years related management/supervision experience in a fast paced food service environment.
• Knowledge of food and catering trends with focus on quality, production, sanitation, and cost controls.
• Proven management skills.
• Strong supervisory skills, capable of motivating, leading and developing associates.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
• Able to work in a fast paced environment and readily accept changes to priorities.
• Must be very flexible (evenings and weekends); events driven.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).

Responsibilities

• Managing the day to day food operations at the facility.
• Handling all phases of food preparation, menu planning and development, operation planning and expenditures, sales revenue generation, costing and inventory management.
• Training, scheduling and supervising associates and addressing employee relations issues.
• Ensuring compliance with Compass Quality Assurance and Health and Safety Programs and WHMIS.
• Ensuring HACCP standards are followed in food preparation.
• Ordering products per Compass Group purchasing specifications.
• Maintaining inventory control and reporting.
• Ensuring daily temperature records are completed.
• Preparing daily menus and menus for special functions.
• Hands-on food preparation for daily service and events.
• Managing budgetary and cost controls.
• Implementing rotation policy for all food and managing QA program with audits.
• Providing regular operations reports to the Food & Beverage / Operations Manager.
• Other duties as requested by the Food & Beverage / Operations Manager.

Skills

Management experience

Supervisory skills

Communication skills

Flexibility

Microsoft Office

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Now, if you were to come on board as one of our Sous Chefs, we’d ask you to do the following for us:

Perform a variety of duties in the management, presentation and administration tasks. Performs other related duties such as ordering, receiving, storage, taking inventory, cleaning, account reporting, training, directing and communicating with clients. Also responsible for the preparation, cooking and presenting of special functions as required.

• Reporting directly to the Food & Beverage / Operations Manager, you will be responsible for managing the day to day food operations at the facility.
• You will handle all phases of food preparation, menu planning and development, operation planning and expenditures, sales revenue generation, costing and maintaining proper inventory levels.
• Responsible for training of associates, scheduling and supervising, as well as addressing and resolving employee relation issues.
• The position will ensure the unit has strict compliance of the Compass Quality Assurance and Health and Safety Program, Occupational Health & Safety Act and WHMIS regulations.
• Ensuring Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) standards are followed in the food preparation process.
• Ordering of all products in accordance with Compass Group’s purchasing specifications.
• Maintaining inventory control and reporting as per Compass Group fiscal schedule.
• Ensuring all temperature records are accurately filled in on a daily basis.
• Preparing menus for daily service as well as special functions.
• Hands on food preparation for daily service as well as special functions.
• Maintaining appropriate budgetary and cost controls.
• Implementing and control a good rotation policy for all food.
• Implementing and manage the Quality Assurance program as outlined by the company and the client, including weekly and monthly audits.
• Providing regular operations reports to the Food & Beverage / Operations Manager.
• Any other requirements as requested by the Food & Beverage / Operations Manager.

Think you have what it takes to be our Sous Chef? We’re committed to hiring the best talent for the role. Here’s how we’ll know you’ll be successful in the role.

• Minimum of 2 years related management/supervision experience in a fast paced food service environment
• Comprehensive knowledge of food and catering trends with a focus on quality, production, sanitation, food cost controls and presentation
• Proven management skills
• Strong supervisory skills, capable of motivating, leading and developing associates
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Able to work in a fast paced environment and readily acceptable to change work priorities at any time
• Must be very flexible (Available to work evening and weekends). Position is events driven.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office ( Word, Excel and Outlook)