Kitchen Manager

**Faircape Restaurant and Catering, part of Faircape Life retirement villages, is located in 6 prime locations across the Western Cape providing meals to village residents and patients in the onsite healthcare centres.**:
**We are seeking a **Senior Kitchen Manager **to be based at our advanced Sub Acute Care and Rehabilitation Centre, along with a luxury retirement village in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, **Tokai Estate.**:
**The Senior Kitchen Manager assumes a vital position in our organisation, holding responsibility for the supervision of Kitchen Managers across multiple facilities. (Noordhoek Manor, Cle Du Cap, and Heritage Manor)**:
**This role entails maintaining optimal stock levels, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, managing food ordering processes, addressing food wastage, and overseeing various administrative functions within the kitchens.**:
If you thrive within a fast-paced environment then this is the opportunity for you.

**Duties will include but are not limited to**:
**Management**:

- Ensure effective management of all direct reports.
- Support the Kitchen Managers at the other facilities
- Manage and process HR administration for staff
- Ordering of stock and ensure accurate storage of stock
- Responsible for accurately and efficiently managing all stock, including food and crockery, ensuring compliance with established procedures.
- Coordinate the distribution of the required stock quantities to the Chefs based on all the bookings received for daily meals.
- Perform regular stock counts, either on a daily or weekly basis, to maintain correct stock levels, bringing inventory to par as necessary.
- Guarantee the accuracy of stock audits and promptly address and correct any identified discrepancies.
- Follow the waste management procedure to minimise resource and food wastage.
- Monitor and maintain precise temperature control in fridges and freezers to ensure food safety.

**Health and Safety**
- Implementing and managing HACCP controls, by drawing up a cleaning schedule and ensure it is adhered to
- Attending monthly Health and Safety meetings
- Ensuring that the kitchen is of correct hygiene standards at all times
- Consult with employees regarding risk management concerns
- Immediately investigate all hazards reported and implement measures to control or eliminate such hazards
- Report incidents immediately, record and investigate all incidents within their work area

**Policies and Procedures**:

- Ensure staff receive necessary training on policies and procedures, and address competency gaps.
- Effectively manage and report any deviations from established procedures.
- Implement standard operating procedures and propose improvements, ensuring adherence to the correct approval process before implementation.

**Equipment Management**
- Manage fixed assets movement and disposal process
- Get authorisation from Management on movement or disposal of assets.
- Manage and maintain asset stock, ensure that assets are controlled and not abused
- Report any discrepancies to management
- Ensure accurate stock counts on assets on a daily, weekly and monthly basis and submit on time

**Qualification**:

- Matric
- Relevant tertiary qualification advantageous

**Experience and Knowledge**:

- Previous staff management experience
- Previous experience in stock management
- Health & Safety knowledge and experience
- In-depth knowledge of kitchen operations.

**Skills and Attributes**:

- Demonstrates strong leadership qualities to effectively lead and motivate kitchen staff.
- Good organisational skills to manage kitchen operations efficiently, and demonstrating excellent
- Logical, critical thinking and problem solving abilities
- Exceptional leadership and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent organisational and time management skill
- Professional communication skills

**Specific Requirements**
- Solid and positive references
- Clear health record
- Clear credit record
- No criminal record

Working hours are 45 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 07h30 - 17h00 with a 60-minute lunch break, and every alternate Saturdays, 09h00 - 13h00.

Salary on offer from R 35,000.00 Cost to Company per month, the salary will be dependent on relevant experience, skills and attributes.
- To see more about Faircape and what we have to offer go and look at our informative website_