Head Cook at a Dynamic Logistics Services Company - Busy Minds Consult

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

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.

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
• 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.
• 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.
• Motivated with the ability to effectively work on own initiative.
• Physical fitness and mental agility to successful function for an extended period if required.

Salary
N150,000 monthly gross.

Application Closing Date
20th December, 2019.