
Chef de Cuisine

Website Arowhon Pines
Employer: Arowhon Limited o/a Arowhon Pines (in Algonquin Park)
Position: Chef de Cuisine
Terms of Employment: Full-time, 3-Year Contract
Location: Huntsville, Ontario (Algonquin Park, April-December)
To view original posting: https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/jobsearch/jobposting/42631982
Employment Address:
- Arowhon Pines, Arowhon Road, Lease 1295 Algonquin Park, Ontario, P1H2G5
- Winter months (January-March) will be placed at other exclusive resorts and/or taking food or management courses
Hours of Work: Average of 40 hours/week
Language: English
Benefits:
- Eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or salary increases in accordance with company policy
- Eligible for free food during seasonal operations
- Eligible for room and board on site during seasonal operations
- Eligible for emergency medical coverage
- Eligible for reimbursement of travel expenses
- Free use of all recreational facilities on site- canoes, kayaks, hiking, fishing, sailboats, etc…
Salary: $80,000 CAD per year
Contact: Please send resumes to [email protected] and include “Chef de Cuisine” in the email subject line.
Duties:
- Ensuring Arowhon Pines recipes and systems are always followed by all staff
- Creating and revising recipes as required
- Liaising and cooperating with the dining room manager, supervisors, and staff in a friendly, constructive and calm manner
- Ensuring compliance with sanitation standards so that kitchen is always maintained in a clean and hygienic state
- Serving fresh, tasty foods, breakfast, lunch and dinner daily to resort guests
- Serving fresh, tasty foods, breakfast, lunch and dinner daily to staff
- Hiring staff
- Dealing with suppliers, pricing, delivery – accepting food, proper handling of food, storage and rotation
- Opening and closing of the kitchen following the Kitchen Operations Manual guidelines
- Revising menu in the winter, pre-season, including recipe creation and revision, recipe system and index maintenance
- Daily supervising of service line-set up, cooking, assisting, teaching, troubleshooting as required
- Expediting of food service as required
- Training of Chef de Parties and assistants on service station set up, over 2 to 3 service sessions per day
- Food preparation tasks as required to ensure service station is completely set up, including but not limited to: soup and sauce preparation, overseeing vegetable station preparations for quality control
- Staff training and assessments, with kitchen manager, throughout the season
- Overall controlling of kitchen operations on a day-to-day basis, following guidelines
- Responsible for all foodstuff orders for business, with the kitchen manager
- Establishing kitchen cleaning schedules, working with the kitchen manager to do so
- Overall menu testing and maintaining food quality control systems
- Compliance with and promoting health and safety workplace harassment policies
Duties during off-season winter months:
- Assisting with hiring the team of 20 for the
- Contacting suppliers to obtain pricing and placing
- Menu testing and preparation for seasonal
- Recipe
- Short-term training
- “Stage”/internship placement in Canada to gain exposure to other cooking styles will be arranged, payment will continue from Arowhon Pines
Requirements:
- Cook’s trade certification or equivalent credentials, training and experience is required
- Food Safety and Handling certificate is required
- 5+ years’ experience in commercial food preparation for an establishment of a similar quality is required
- 3+ years’ experience in a supervisory capacity
- Proven experience in remote locations is of the utmost importance
- Experience cooking a variety of cuisines
- Experience and familiarity in a variety of kitchen departments such as bakeshop, butchery and garden manager
- Experience working on the service line in a fast-paced environment
- Friendly and firm supervisory skills with ability to remain fair and respectful – ability to lead and train a new team every season
- Ability to identify and resolve problems quickly and efficiently
- Desire to pursue Red Seal Endorsement and/or Certification from the Canadian Culinary Federation (CCF)
- Creative and energetic
- Heavy lifting is required
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To apply for this job please visit www.arowhonpines.ca.