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.

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.