Summary

The Senior Sous Chef is responsible for being the 2nd in-charge of a specific kitchen and required to have an extensive knowledge and proven track record in your area of specialization.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepare Mise-en-place.

• Prepare food items in accurate and standard portions/quantities.

• Prepare meals as directed and according to recipe, menu specification and expected standard.

• Attend to any last-minute additional meal orders or menu changes due to flight delay.

• Assist Production Chef during Food Presentation and ensure all prepared foods are properly labelled with Day Sticker.

• Ensure meals are prepared according to Work Order timings and are blast chilled accordingly.

• Ensure personal and food hygiene practices are followed accordingly to standards set by Quality Assurance Department.

• Help to maintain general cleanliness in the Kitchen area and as well as the equipment for Kitchen use.

• Coordinate with the Housekeeping staff on the Kitchen cleaning timing schedules.

• Ensure staffs adhere to safety rules and regulation practices and check and ensure that the First Aid Box is always complete with required content.

• Monitor and ensure food temperatures are within standard limits.

• Provide training, supervise, and assign job to staff and monitor and check staff attendance against roster and work schedule.

• Minimize wastage and optimize stock level of raw materials and ingredients.

• Monitor stock level of raw materials and products in the cold room or freezer.

• Submit wastage and spoilage report to Production Chef.

• Adjust duty roster according to workload, if necessary and plan and order dry store items ahead actual requirement.

• Conduct daily cold room/freezer/equipment inspection.

• Raise Work Requisition and liaise with Facilities & Flight Kitchen Engineering Department (FE) on breakdown of equipment or damaged facilities. Submit Daily Performance Report to Production Chef.

• Undertake any other duties assigned by immediate superior. Ensure compliance with all workplace safety, security, and health policies and procedure

• Perform any ad-hoc duties as assigned by the reporting manager or department head

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of experience in culinary operations

• Must have a comprehensive culinary background in a specific cuisine