Head Chef Job Placement – FUE (Fast Foods Company)

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Job Title:         Head Chef
Organisation: Federation of
Uganda Employers (FUE)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Reports to: Operations
Manager
About US:
Federation of Uganda Employers (FUE) is a voluntary membership
organization established and fully owned by the Employers. It was founded in
1958 as the representative body of all Employers in Uganda. It was registered
as an Association in 1960 under the Trustee Incorporation Act. It’s a voice of
all Employers on Social and Economic issues. It is an organization that
advocates for Employers’ rights. They would like to recruit for one of their clients in the
fast foods industry.
Job Summary: The Head Chef
will be managing production operations in line with the established standard
operating procedures while ensuring quality, creativity, cost control and a
memorable guest experience.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:   
Provide effective leadership to the production staff:
  • Instruct cooks and other workers in the
    preparation, cooking, garnishing, and presentation of food
  • The jobholder will determine production
    schedules and staff requirements necessary to ensure timely delivery of
    services
  • Demonstrate new cooking techniques and
    equipment to staff
  • Ensure staff professionalism
  • Enhance a skills and talent growth
    environment
Ensure continuous menu re-engineering so as to enhance the guest′s
dining experience and increase sales turn over:
  • Conduct product development (menu items)
  • Study customer tastes and preferences
  • Maintain production efficiency
Apply cost and quality control measures to meet departmental budgets:
  • Ensure food portion control
  • Practice requisition control (check the
    quantity and quality of received products)
  • Monitor material usage
Maintain a conducive / friendly working environment for the kitchen
staff so as to provide service to guest and staff satisfaction:
  • Ensure work safety and hygiene maintenance
    for staff and kitchen environment
  • Conduct regular training in occupational
    safety
  • Improving employee relations at all levels
Ensure proper usage of utilities and proper waste management:
  • Control unnecessary lighting and switching
    off idle equipment
  • Control running water at all the sinks
  • Ensuring proper disposal of waste
  • Educate staff on recyclable items
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:  
  • The applicant should preferably hold a Degree/Diploma
    in Food Production, Culinary Arts, Food Management
  • Possess related certification/ training in
    leadership skills (preferred)
  • At least five years of restaurant
    experience with three years as an Executive Chef
  • Awareness of HACCP standards
  • Evidence of leading a kitchen brigade of
    30+
  • Computer literacy skills
  • Good leadership and supervisory skills
  • Detail oriented and organized in work
  • Ability to meet assigned deadlines
  • Excellent problem analysis and
    problem-solving skills
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with a
    customer service focus
  • Ability to act and operate independently
    with minimal daily direction from immediate Manager
  • Good oral and written communication skills
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested applicants should submit an
application letter and an up to date CV ONLY that provides details of the
applicant’s specific qualifications for the desired position, current and
expected salary and contacts of three professional referees by Email to:
applications@fuemployers.org addressing them to The Human Resource Specialist,
Federation of Uganda Employers, Plot 1207, Kiwanga Road, Namanve P.O. Box 3820,
Kampala. Any form of lobbying will lead to automatic disqualification.
Deadline: 3rd March,
2017 by 5:00 pm
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