Senior Kitchen Manager

We are seeking a **Senior Kitchen Manager **to be based at an advanced Sub Acute Care and Rehabilitation Centre, along with a luxury retirement village in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town**.**

The Senior Kitchen Manager assumes a vital position in our organisation, holding responsibility for the supervision of Kitchen Managers across multiple facilities.

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.

**Salary**: R35 000,00 per month