Chef de Cuisine - Westin Tempe
About The Position
The Westin Tempe is looking for a full-time Chef de Cuisine to join their culinary team. This role involves servicing food and beverages to guests in the restaurant in a friendly, courteous, timely, and professional manner to ensure a high level of guest satisfaction. The Chef de Cuisine is responsible for overseeing all kitchen operations and supervising kitchen staff to ensure the consistent preparation of high-quality menu items. This includes ensuring proper food handling, storage, and sanitation practices are maintained in accordance with company standards and health regulations. The role also involves coordinating food purchasing, inventory management, and menu execution while maintaining approved food and labor cost targets. The Chef de Cuisine serves as the lead culinary professional in the kitchen and reports directly to the Executive Chef.
Requirements
- Ability to communicate in English
- Self-starting personality with an even disposition
- Ability to transport cases of received goods to the work stations; pots and pans of food from storage/prep areas to the serving line
- Ability to work with all products and food ingredients involved
- Finger/hand dexterity in order to operate food machinery
- Ability to grasp, lift and/or carry, or otherwise, move goods weighing a maximum of 100 lbs. on a continuous schedule
- Maintaining professional appearance and manner at all times
- Willingness to "pitch-in" and help co-workers with their job duties and be a team player
- Ability to solve routine problems that occur on the job and ask for help whenever not sure how to do something
- Adherence to hotel standards for work procedures, dress, grooming, punctuality and attendance
Nice To Haves
- Outgoing personality
- Enjoy being outdoors
Responsibilities
- Overseeing all kitchen operations
- Supervising kitchen staff to ensure the consistent preparation of high-quality menu items
- Ensuring proper food handling, storage, and sanitation practices are maintained in accordance with company standards and health regulations
- Coordinating food purchasing, inventory management, and menu execution while maintaining approved food and labor cost targets
- Serving as the lead culinary professional in the kitchen
- Servicing food and beverages to guests around the restaurant
- Maintaining a professional appearance and manner at all times
- Communicating well with guests
- Pitching-in and helping co-workers with their job duties and being a team player
- Operating, cleaning, and maintaining all equipment required in job functions
- Planning and developing menus and recipes
- Applying basic supervisory skills to plan, organize, direct, coach, train and discipline, as necessary
- Ensuring security of kitchen access, products and hotel property
- Operating with stress, time constraints, physical activity and continuous walking
- Adhering to hotel security policies and procedures, particularly regarding key controls, lifting heavy objects, using chemicals, and effectively reporting safety hazards and safety concerns.
Benefits
- Team Member and Family Room Discounts for both Crescent Hotels and Resort and Marriott Hotels
- Flexible Schedules
- Career Growth & Development
- Insurance Benefit Available for both Full Time and Part Time Team Members
- 401k Plan and Company Match Program
- Vacation Pay / Sick Pay – Full Time and Part Time Team Members
- Holiday Pay – Full Time Team Members
- Amazing Recognition Programs/Giving Back – Community Outreach
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Health & wellness programs
- Best in class learning and development
- Travel discounts
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
