Sous Chef - Cape Town

HotelJobs; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Restaurant in Cape Town is seeking a dedicated Sous Chef to support the Head Chef in daily kitchen operations, ensuring meal quality and adherence to recipes. You will lead staff, manage stock, and assist with menu creation, while maintaining health and safety standards.

Applicants should have a Culinary Diploma and around 4 years in a senior chef role, with strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to work evenings and weekends.

Qualifications

• Must have culinary diploma and senior chef experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead kitchen staff in the head chef's absence.
• Oversee junior kitchen staff and plate dishes to spec.
• Manage kitchen stock, ordering, and waste reduction.
• Ensure health, safety and sanitation standards are met.
• Coordinate menu creation and ensure consistent food quality.
• Maintain kitchen organization and staff rostering.

Skills

Leadership

Teamwork

Communication

Organizational skills

Attention to detail

Customer service

Computer literacy

Education

Culinary Diploma

Tools

MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Job description

Japanese inspired Restaurant in Cape Town is looking for a Sous Chef to work alongside the Head Chef to manage daily kitchen activities ; including overseeing staff; menu preparation and ensuring food quality and freshness. Providing meal quality and consistency by following designated recipes.

Duties

• Manage and lead the kitchen staff in chef’s absence
• Provides guidance to junior kitchen staff members, including but not limited, to line cooking, food preparation and dish plating
• Oversees and organizes kitchen stock and ingredients
• Ensures a first-in, first-out food rotation system and verifies all food products are properly dated and organized for quality assurance
• Keeps cooking stations stocked, especially before and during prime operation hours
• Train and assess staff on the job
• Manages food and product ordering by keeping detailed records and minimizes waste, plus works with existing systems to improve waste reduction and manage budgetary concerns
• Supervises all food preparation and presentation to ensure quality and restaurant standards
• Works with head chef to maintain kitchen organization, staff ability and training opportunities
• Assists head chef with menu creation
• Monitor and maintain health and safety
• Maintain staff and leave rosters
• Ensure that all CDPs are familiar with the weekly and daily reservations, events and menu requirements
• Ensure that each dish leaving the kitchen is checked for quality, quantity, presentation and correct temperature

Requirements

• Culinary Diploma
• Preferably +/- 4 years previous in a senior chef role
• Own transport with valid driver’s license
• Leadership and management skills
• Able to work in a team
• Basic computer skills (word, excel, outlook)
• Exceptional customer-service skills
• Excellent written & oral communication skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Attention to detail
• Availability to work within opening hours (e.g. evenings, public holidays, weekends)