Senior Sous Chef

The Commercial Hotel; Johnstone; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10% service charge + tips kept by team

Free meals on shift

Wellbeing resources and support

Job summary

The Commercial Hotel in Scotland seeks a Senior Sous Chef to lead kitchen teams and work with the Head Chef to deliver exceptional dining experiences across all outlets and events.

You will drive day-to-day kitchen operations, maintain high standards, and mentor staff to deliver outstanding guest experiences while ensuring profitability. This role emphasizes teamwork, development, and consistent service across all shifts.

Qualifications

• Skill and experience are essential; more importantly, share our vision for a better hospitality industry and be a team player.

Responsibilities

• Oversees day-to-day kitchen operations and team, delivering high-quality dishes across restaurant, functions and outlets while safeguarding profitability.
• Leads from the front, guides and develops staff, ensures cleanliness, tidiness and consistent food service with an engaged team.
• Collaborates with Head Chef to design dishes, menus and daily specials; may run the pass during events such as weddings.

Job description

We’re about much more than hospitality! We’re striving to make life better for people – whether they are team, guests or community, through our everyday actions and decisions. Our team care for others, bring their best and help us move forward, whatever job they do.

Our Senior Sous Chefs (SSC) are a pivotal part of our kitchen teams, working with the Head Chef, Kitchen, Front of House teams and the General Manager to deliver great hospitality and experiences to our guest and the team.

The SC is passionate about their craft and all aspects of Kitchen Management and food experiences. With responsibility for all aspects of the day-to-day Kitchen operation and team, in the absence of the HC the SSC works with their chefs to deliver high quality dishes across the restaurant, functions and other food outlets whilst maintaining a high level of profitability. They are financially aware and have built a relationship with suppliers to ensure the quality of produce is delivered.

Leading from the front, guiding and developing their teams they deliver consistent standards of cleanliness, tidiness and food service as well as an engaged and motivated team. Our SSC’s can be found guiding younger members of the team through a new dish, designing menus and daily specials with the Head Chef or running their pass in a wedding.

Skill and experience are necessary to do this job, but more than anything else, we want someone who shares our vision of a hospitality industry that is better and sees themselves being part of the team who can make this happen!

We pay a fair wage – with our hourly pay being higher than the Government rates, at a minimum. Your earnings will be further enhanced by our 10% service charges and other tips that guests leave – with 100% of tips being retained by the team.

We make life better for our team by:

• Offering great perks and benefits to be enjoyed by you and your family!
• Sharing our profits with you after 1 year of service
• Giving you free meals, soft drinks and hot drinks on shift
• Listening to our team via surveys and feedback sessions
• Offering free wellbeing services and resources, for help whenever you need it
• Creating great learning and development opportunities to support your career