Employer: Arowhon Limited o/a Arowhon Pines (in Algonquin Park)
Position: Chef de Cuisine
Terms of Employment: Full-time, 3-Year Contract
Location: Huntsville, Ontario (Algonquin Park, April-December)
Employment Address:
• Arowhon Pines, Arowhon Road, Lease 1295 Algonquin Park, Ontario, P1H2G5
• Winter months (January-March) will be placed at other exclusive resorts and/or taking food or management courses
Hours of Work: Average of 40 hours/week
Language: English
Benefits:
• Eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or salary increases in accordance with company policy
• Eligible for free food during seasonal operations
• Eligible for room and board on site during seasonal operations
• Eligible for emergency medical coverage
• Eligible for reimbursement of travel expenses
• Free use of all recreational facilities on site- canoes, kayaks, hiking, fishing, sailboats, etc…
Salary: $80,000 CAD per year
Contact: Please send resumes to resort@arowhonpines.ca and include “Chef de Cuisine” in the email subject line.
Duties:
• Ensuring Arowhon Pines recipes and systems are always followed by all staff
• Creating and revising recipes as required
• Liaising and cooperating with dining room manager, supervisors, and staff in a friendly, constructive and calm manner
• Ensuring compliance with sanitation standards so that kitchen is always maintained in a clean and hygienic state
• Serving fresh, tasty foods, breakfast, lunch and dinner daily to resort guests
• Serving fresh, tasty foods, breakfast, lunch and dinner daily to staff
• Hiring staff
• Dealing with suppliers, pricing, delivery – accepting food, proper handling of food, storage and rotation
• Opening and closing of the kitchen following the Kitchen Operations Manual guidelines
• Revising menu in the winter, pre-season, including recipe creation and revision, recipe system and index maintenance
• Daily supervising of service line-set up, cooking, assisting, teaching, troubleshooting as required
• Expediting of food service as required
• Training of Chef de Parties and assistants on service station set up, over 2 to 3 service sessions per day
• Food preparation tasks as required to ensure service station is completely set up, including but not limited to: soup and sauce preparation, overseeing vegetable station preparations for quality control
• Staff training and assessments, with kitchen manager, throughout the season
• Overall controlling of kitchen operations on a day-to-day basis, following guidelines
• Responsible for all foodstuff orders for business, with the kitchen manager
• Establishing kitchen cleaning schedules, working with the kitchen manager to do so
• Overall menu testing and maintaining food quality control systems
• Compliance with and promoting health and safety workplace harassment policies
• Duties during off-season winter months:
o Assisting with hiring the team of 20 for the kitchen;
o Contacting suppliers to obtain pricing and placing orders;
o Menu testing and preparation for seasonal operations;
o Recipe work;
o Short-term training courses;
o “Stage”/internship placement in Canada to gain exposure to other cooking styles will be arranged, payment will continue from Arowhon Pines
Requirements:
• Cook’s trade certification or equivalent credentials, training and experience is required
• Food Safety and Handling certificate is required
• 5+ years’ experience in commercial food preparation for an establishment of a similar quality is required
• 3+ years’ experience in a supervisory capacity
• Proven experience in remote locations is of the utmost importance
• Experience cooking a variety of cuisines
• Experience and familiarity in a variety of kitchen departments such as bakeshop, butchery and garde manger
• Experience working on the service line in a fast-paced environment
• Friendly and firm supervisory skills with ability to remain fair and respectful – ability to lead and train a new team every season
• Ability to identify and resolve problems quickly and efficiently
• Desire to pursue Red Seal Endorsement and/or Certification from the Canadian Culinary Federation (CCF)
• Creative and energetic
• Heavy lifting is required
|