Kitchen Supervisor

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Kitchen Supervisor to join our team at Crestline Hotels & Resorts. As a key member of our culinary team, you will be responsible for overseeing the supervision of kitchen staff, preparing and cooking food for our guests, and ensuring that our food service operations meet the highest standards of quality and safety.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist the chefs in overseeing the supervision of kitchen staff and ensuring that all food preparation and cooking meets our high standards.
• Prepare, season, and cook soups, meats, vegetables, desserts, and other foodstuffs for consumption in our hotel.
• Perform kitchen duties, including setup, cleaning, and break down of kitchen.
• Assist with ensuring breakfast items are cooked to standards and out on time.
• Ensure room service orders and Club Room orders are completed and on time to Hotel standards.
• Assist Chef & Sous chefs with training of new hires and less experienced cooks and prep cooks.
• Oversee daily/monthly ASI temperature logs and assist chefs with monthly sanitation audits.
• Break down and store all leftovers of food and equipment that are utilized during your shift.
• Dates, identifies, and labels all food for storage in walk in, reach in, freezer and dry storage.
• Comply with the Clean as You Go work policy and daily sanitation projects and checklists.
• Maintain cleanliness and sanitation of all work surface areas, food service areas, coolers, tables, counters, and all major appliances in the kitchen.
• Cook orders as per ticket from server and handle any special request of guests in a positive manner.
• Start food items that are prepared ahead of time and make sure not to prepare over estimated needs.

Requirements

• Strong Banquet food preparation skills and previous experience in upscale banquet food preparation operations.
• People skills: Needs to understand and be able to execute praising, coaching & counseling procedures in a professional and effective manner.
• A good knowledge and understanding of knife skills, sanitation and cooking methods and be able to apply them in food production.
• Prior experience in the preparation of food items, including previous line cook experience in an a la carte restaurant required.
• A good knowledge of sanitation codes concerning food storage, cross contamination, food safe and danger zones.
• A good knowledge of proper cooking methods (i.e., roasting, sauting, frying, braising, etc.).
• Good sauce knowledge (i.e., stocks, mother sauces, etc.).
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as recipes, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write basic reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively with customers or employees of organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to solve practical problems.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Crestline Hotels & Resorts is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, or disability status.