Head Chef at 18 Hours Lounge & Restaurant - Venmac Resources Limited

Venmac Resources Limited - Our client, 18 Hours Lounge & Restaurant, is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head Chef

Location: Kubwa, Abuja
Job type: Full-time

Key Responsibilities

• Trains develops, and motivates supervisors and culinary staff to meet and exceed established food preparation standards consistently.
• Teaches preparation according to well-defined recipes and follows up and discusses ways of constantly improving the cuisine at 18 hours.
• Display exceptional leadership by providing a positive work environment, counseling employees as appropriate, and demonstrating a dedicated and professional approach to management.
• Provide direction for all day-to-day operations in the kitchen.
• Understand employee positions well enough to perform duties in employees’ absence or determine appropriate replacements to fill gaps.
• Provides guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
• Utilizes interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and kitchen staff.
• Advocate sound financial/business decision-making, demonstrate honesty, and integrity, and also lead by example.
• Improves service by communicating and assisting individuals to understand guest needs, providing guidance, feedback, and individual coaching when needed.
• Delegates as appropriate to develop supervisors and subordinates to accept responsibility and meet clearly defined goals and objectives.
• Review staffing levels to ensure that guest service, operational needs, and financial objectives are met.
• Actively involved in menu development and maintaining updated and accurate costing of all dishes prepared and sold in the Food and Beverage operation. 
• Determines how food should be presented, and creates decorative food displays.
• Ensures compliance with food handling and sanitation standards.
• Follows proper handling and the right temperature of all food products.
• Ensures all equipment in the kitchen is properly maintained and in working order.
• Coordinates with the purchasing department for the acquisition of food items and other purchases needed for production. 
• Ensure all products are prepared consistently and meet departmental appearance/quality standards.
• Ensure proper grooming and hygiene standards for all kitchen staff.
• Ensure proper purchasing, receiving, and food storage standards in the kitchen.
• Interacts with guests to obtain feedback on food quality, presentation, and service levels.
• Actively responds to and handles guest problems and complaints.
• Maintain Quality levels of receiving, storage, production, and presentation of food.
• Follows and enforces all applicable safety procedures specified for kitchen and food servers.
• Discuss daily food cost reports with key kitchen and F&B team members.
• Review weekly and monthly schedules to meet forecast and budget.
• Attend the daily morning meetings and other administrative sessions.
• Identifies the developmental needs of kitchen staff and provides coaching, mentoring, and also helping them to improve their knowledge or skills.
• Trains kitchen associates on the fundamentals of good cooking and excellent plate presentations. Also, interview and hire new applicants for the kitchen.
• Frequently review finished products for quality and presentation before the orders are sent to guests.
• Able to perform additional duties as requested by the 18 hours management as and when required.

Application Closing Date
30th November, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: venmachospitality@gmail.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.