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Vacancy for Head Cook in a Logistics Services Company
Busy Minds Consult - Our client, a highly dynamic Logistics Services company is recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:
Job Title: Head Cook
Location: Lagos
Education and Qualifications
- Minimum of an Ordinary National Diploma (OND) in Culinary Arts or a related field
- NVQ Professional Cookery
- Experience of HACCP.
- Experience: Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in similar position, inclusive supervising kitchen brigade
- Experience of both Nigerian and Western cuisine
- A background in catering within camp and remote sites.
Skills/ Competencies:
- Effective communication skill.
- Analytical capacity and numerical accuracy
- Competent in managing a catering multi-national facility serving a diverse clientele base from VIP to junior personnel.
- Analytical capacity and accuracy
- Computer Literate.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Self-Motivated and willing to learn new processes;
- The resilience to deal with periods of work pressure and diplomacy to deal with difficult employees, customers, contractors and others in the course of their duties.
- Reliable, with the ability to maintain high levels of service.
- Initiative and integrity.
- Able to input date and use special software.
- Ability to communicate with personnel of all levels.
- Menu development and training skills.
- Management of details.
- Presentation of work.
- Competent in locating discrepancies and ability to resolve.
- Motivated with the ability to effectively work on own initiative.
- Physical fitness and mental agility to successful function for an extended period if required.
Responsibilities
- Train and manage kitchen personnel and monitor their roles.
- Coordinate all related culinary activities.
- Estimate food consumption and requisition or purchase food.
- Select and develop recipes as per contractual requirements.
- Standardize production recipes to ensure consistent quality.
- Plan and price menus for various functions and meals.
- Ensure proper and strict food safety and sanitation in kitchen.
- Responsible for meeting food costs via portion control process
- Responsible for hiring, discipline, performance reviews and initiating pay increases.
- Ability to manage a multi-national kitchen brigade.
- To plan and implement effective food promotion and theme nights.
- To train and develop each cook so that they can operate independently.
- Any other responsibility that may be assigned by your line manager.
Salary
N150,000 monthly gross.
Deadline: 20th December, 2019.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to:
[email protected] clearly indicating the "Job Title" as the subject of your mail.
Note: Dates of each of your work experience should include the start month and year and stop month and year. E.g. July 2013 – May 2018.
