Sous Chef - H

Sous Chef

The Sous Chef position is a fast paced leadership and culinary production role at the Hilton Charlotte Uptown! Take your culinary career to the next level and join our Hilton Charlotte Uptown Team!

The Sous Chef will guide and participate in all operations in the Culinary & Restaurant departments. This will include guiding the preparation, presentation, and execution of meals and food product for a high volume three meal hotel restaurant Coastal Kitchen and Bar, In-Room Dining and Banquet Catering for events and conferences of up to 800 guests. Duties associated with this role including following food safety guidelines, guiding cooks in their section in preparing, cooking, and presenting culinary dishes; enforcing strict health and hygiene standards in the kitchen; ordering all required food product and beverage product inventory, scheduling team members according to business levels and participating in a variety of F&B functions. The Sous Chef will partner with the Executive Chef to achieve departmental goals and support Culinary team members as needed. Candidate must be very high energy, organized, professional and comfortable working in fast paced and high volume environment.

Key job requirements and duties:

• Minimum of 2 years of culinary supervisory experience within a full-service hotel property or similar environment experience is required
• Work directly with banquet staff and banquet cooks to execute banquet event orders and oversee product quality and production levels
• Maintaining prepared product from the banquet staff by use of self-developed prep lists, task lists, daily tasks to ensure banquet kitchen stays ahead of business levels
• Advanced knowledge of the principles and techniques with the culinary profession including food costing skills, purchasing, cost controls and food safety knowledge required
• Ability to manage and motivate a team, ability to produce high quality menus and excel in a high volume and fast paced environment required
• Ability to work a varied schedule, including evenings and weekends is required

Hilton Charlotte Uptown is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants and employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; sex; gender identity; sexual orientation; religious practices and observances; national origin; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; status as a protected veteran or spouse/family member of a protected veteran; or disability. If you need accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please send an email or call to let us know the nature of your request.

Preferred skills:

• Problem Solving: Intermediate
• Detail Oriented: Intermediate

Preferred behaviors:

• Leader: Inspires teammates to follow them
• Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well

Required education:

• High School or better.

Required experience:

• 2 years: Experience in a high volume banquet setting
• 2 years: Culinary supervisory experience within a full-service hotel property or similar environment.

Preferred licenses & certifications:

• Alcohol Training
• ServSafe
• Food Handler