Overview
Whether you want to make your debut or go back on tour after a long hiatus, starting a career at Seminole Hard Rock Casino can feel more like play than work. Our staff spends their time making sure that every single one of our guests gets the rock star treatment, but the Hard Rock family also rolls out the red carpet for our employees with competitive benefits and a great work environment. If you’re ready to join a stellar team full of tastemakers and trendsetters who stand out from the average resort crew, apply today.
Job Summary:
Under the direction of the Executive Sous Chef, is responsible for supervising the staff and daily operations of the kitchen. Ensures a fresh, positive and exciting environment where safety, flawless delivery and execution of product excellence and service are paramount.
Responsibilities
Essential Job Functions:
- Accountable for overseeing a section of the kitchen to ensure that the overall operation runs smoothly and effectively.
- Place & check food requisitions in accordance with menus.
- Handle and follow up all incidents immediately, and report accurately
- Train staff at lower levels and coach and direct employees to perform to Kitchen Operations.
- Use correct techniques, procedures and recipes for preparing and cooking food.
- Apply culinary skills to prepare meals, with flavor, ingredients, temperature, presentation and quality consistent with standards and guest expectations
- Maintaining food cost to parameter given by the company.
- Check food cost on a daily basis and ensure continual awareness of monthly food cost.
- Develop and maintain high standards of hygiene within kitchens.
- Keeping outlet ahead of HACCP standards
- Ensure service is fast, fun, friendly, fresh, and focused.
- Ensuring that all HACCP folders, forms, records and procedures are adhered to and updated at all times
- Develop department members’ knowledge and skills through education, training, coaching, corrective counseling, etc.
- Demonstrate a commitment to ensuring responsible gaming and responsible alcohol service by discreetly notifying appropriate management of concerns and observations.
- Conduct personal behavior and select, train, coach, counsel, appraise and retain direct reports who consistently perform actions and behaviors that reinforce the Company’s Mission and Values of Communication, Integrity, Fun, Respect, Accountability, Passion and Dedication.
- Ensure prompt and discreet notification to appropriate management and/or the Ethics Hotline of any observation of illegal acts or internal ethics violations.
- Ensure appropriate staffing levels to best manage labor costs while maintaining outstanding guest service.
- Stays abreast of the current trends and practices within area of responsibility and communicates pertinent information to management, peers, direct reports and team members as appropriate.
- Ensure activities comply with relevant statutory and regulatory requirements, legal demands and professional and ethical standards.
- Comply with all internal policies and procedures.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Qualifications:
- Culinary degree required and a minimum of four (4) years of culinary experience along with two (2) years of kitchen supervisory experience or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Training in Pastry, Garde Manger, Butchery, Bakery, Hot Production, Japanese Cooking, A La Carte, Buffet, and Kitchen Artistry outlets required
- A sound knowledge of Vietnamese, Chinese, and Korean style of cooking required.
Additional Details
Work Environment:
- May be exposed to casino related environmental factors including, but not limited to, second hand smoke and excessive noise.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms, talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
- The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
- The Casino environment is hectic, fast-paced and often crowded and noisy. May be exposed to casino related environmental factors including, but not limited to, second hand smoke, excessive noise and constant exposure to general public.
MUST BE 21 YEARS OF AGE