What is in it for you:
- Exclusive Employee and Friends & Family Discounts at Fairmont Hotel Empress
- Exclusive access to the Pacific Northwest Food & Beverage Discount Program with 50% off at our dining destinations in Vancouver Victoria and Whistler
- Opportunity to develop your talent and grow within your property and across the world!
- Complimentary meal during your shift through our Colleague Dining Program
- Complimentary uniform laundering
- Opportunity to develop your talent through coaching and our Leadership Mentoring Programs
- Hourly rate of $24.39 to 27.87
What you will be doing:
- Prepare and service all food items for a la carte and or buffet menus according to hotel recipes and standards
- In conjunction with the Chef de Partie or Journeyperson; proactively prioritize tasks to ensure a consistently high level of service and quality of food for our guests
- Consistently ensures food quality consistency and quantity are meeting established expectations
- Consistently demonstrates positive behavior and performance
- Ensures all established food safety protocols are followed maintains the kitchen in a neat clean and organized manner
- Ensures food cost is managed; by controlling food waste through FIFO rotation proper ordering storage and preparation of all foods
- Ensures productivity and labour cost are managed; by maintaining a focused and productive approach to daily tasks
- Possess a complete understanding of the menu recipes and presentations aware of potential food allergens in each dish
- Contribute ideas to menu development assist with recipe creation and documentation
- Liaise with other departments such as Banquets Restaurants and Stewarding to ensure excellent communication in order to achieve smooth operational outcomes
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications :
Your experience and skills include:
- A minimum of 1year recent (in the last year) experience in a hotel or restaurant kitchen at a comparable level of luxury service as a prep cook apprentice 3rd cook or similar role
- Possess a Cooks Training certificate from a High School College or University
- Current Food Safe level 1 or equivalent recognized food safety certificate (colleagues are responsible for maintaining their food safe certification)
- Successful demonstration of a high level of technical and artistic culinary skills assessed during a practical cooking test
- Successful demonstration of high level culinary and food safety knowledge assessed through a written test
- Willing and able to taste all food products i.e. meats seafood produce dry goods dairy
- Completely fluent English language skills; both written and verbal
- A proven ability to communicate effectively work within a team and delegate to others
- Excellent organizational skills and shows initiative with ability to work well with little supervision
- Exercises sound decision making with the ability to prioritize tasks appropriately
- Demonstrated a high level of responsibility and accountability
- Demonstrated commitment to provide excellent service and exceed guests expectations
- Must be able to work flexible shifts evenings weekends holidays with either early start or late finish times
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime