Vacancy for Head Cook in a Logistics Services Company


Busy Minds Consult - Our client, a highly dynamic Logistics Services company is recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:
Job Title: Head Cook Location: Lagos
  Education and Qualifications
  • Minimum of an Ordinary National Diploma (OND) in Culinary Arts or a related field
  • NVQ Professional Cookery
  • Experience of HACCP.
  • Experience: Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in similar position, inclusive supervising kitchen brigade
  • Experience of both Nigerian and Western cuisine
  • A background in catering within camp and remote sites.
Skills/ Competencies:
  • Effective communication skill.
  • Analytical capacity and numerical accuracy
  • Competent in managing a catering multi-national facility serving a diverse clientele base from VIP to junior personnel.
  • Analytical capacity and accuracy
  • Computer Literate.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  • Self-Motivated and willing to learn new processes;
  • The resilience to deal with periods of work pressure and diplomacy to deal with difficult employees, customers, contractors and others in the course of their duties.
  • Reliable, with the ability to maintain high levels of service.
  • Initiative and integrity.
  • Able to input date and use special software.
  • Ability to communicate with personnel of all levels.
  • Menu development and training skills.
  • Management of details.
  • Presentation of work.
  • Competent in locating discrepancies and ability to resolve.
  • Motivated with the ability to effectively work on own initiative.
  • Physical fitness and mental agility to successful function for an extended period if required.
  Responsibilities
  • Train and manage kitchen personnel and monitor their roles.
  • Coordinate all related culinary activities.
  • Estimate food consumption and requisition or purchase food.
  • Select and develop recipes as per contractual requirements.
  • Standardize production recipes to ensure consistent quality.
  • Plan and price menus for various functions and meals.
  • Ensure proper and strict food safety and sanitation in kitchen.
  • Responsible for meeting food costs via portion control process
  • Responsible for hiring, discipline, performance reviews and initiating pay increases.
  • Ability to manage a multi-national kitchen brigade.
  • To plan and implement effective food promotion and theme nights.
  • To train and develop each cook so that they can operate independently.
  • Any other responsibility that may be assigned by your line manager.
Salary N150,000 monthly gross.
Deadline: 20th December, 2019.
How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] clearly indicating the "Job Title" as the subject of your mail. Note: Dates of each of your work experience should include the start month and year and stop month and year. E.g. July 2013 – May 2018.