The Langham Gold Coast
Sous Chef
The Langham Gold Coast
Sous Chef
Hospitality & Tourism / Chefs/Cooks
Posted 03/04/2025
Closes 03/05/2025
Surfers Paradise, 4217, Gold Coast, Queensland
Full time
$75,000 - $85,000 Annual
As Culinary Leader, you will craft food experiences across your designated Outlet, supervising and contributing to food production, ensuring the high quality of food and presentation across the Outlet, ensuring the organization of service periods and maintaining high levels of service delivery, quality product and teamwork to ensure a seamless and exceptional dining experience.
As seasoned Chef you will coordinate the output and quality standards of designated Outlets – delegating duties and responsibilities to ensure service standards are met. As part of our Kitchen Team, you will be working to meet and exceed your Outlet KPIs including; customer experience, colleague engagement and wellbeing and outlet profitability and productivity. You will also support kitchen cleanliness and maintenance, HACCAP Compliance and health and safety.
Benefits
Live fully with Langham
The Langham Hotels & Resorts offers current and future colleagues:
- Benchmarked and competitive remuneration
- Excellent Training Opportunities and Career Progression
- Complimentary Meals & Laundry
- 6 Complimentary Hotel Nights at LHG Hotel and Resorts each year
- Complimentary Hotel Nights at LHG Hotel and Resorts each year
Tasks & responsibilities
The Sous Chef assists Senior Chefs with planning, implementation and execution of innovative and distinctive Menus, optimising the use of quality seasonal produce, create dining trends and enhance food cost performance based on menu engineering analysis.
Supervises the food production for directed food service outlets (revenue and non-revenue generating) in the hotel by the Senior Chefs.
Assists Chef de Cuisine in creative menu planning for directed outlets and ensures that all menus items have recipe costings to deliver target profit margins at designated sale prices. Support Senior Chefs with training and supervises the team to ensure consistency of quality and menu items.
Supports the Food Safety Management System for kitchen areas, undertaking a daily walk-through of kitchen and fridges, and ensuring that food sampling and record keeping requirements are accurately executed. Together with the Chef de Cuisine, Executive Sous Chef, Executive Chef and Chief Steward ensures the HACCAP compliance of The Property.
Ensures that work methods are safe and appropriately trained in, and that best practice requirements in terms of food storage, hygiene and stock rotation are maintained.
In Collaboration with Senior Chef manages, directs, trains and coaches the performance of all kitchen personnel and through personal example, together with the senior kitchen team, creates a professional, fair and supportive working environment by which our Colleagues can succeed.
Qualifications & experience
To be successful in the role you will have at least one year experience in the same or similar position at a luxury hotel/high end restaurant and proven experience supervisor Chefs/Cooks teams to meet a level of high performance across service, quality, presentation and production. Other key attributes we are looking for include:
- Passion for service excellence and providing superior hospitality
- Authentic and Collaborative Leadership Style
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Relevant Trade Qualifications
- Australian work rights
- Luxury hotel experience highly desirable
Applications open to:
About Company
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Great Eagle Holdings, Langham Hospitality Group (LHG) comprises a family of distinctive brands, including The Langham Hotels and Resorts, Cordis Hotels and Resorts, Eaton Workshop and Ying’nFlo. With over 40 hotels and residences in operation or development, LHG has a global footprint that extends across Asia, Europe, North America, Australasia and the Middle East.
LHG's approach to hospitality centres on open and genuine interactions with guests, colleagues and the world around us. With dedicated colleagues across four continents, we foster an engaging and respectful workplace to nurture careers, delight guests, and embrace the company's vision to building great memories together.
The Langham, Gold Coast & The Jewel Residences has ushered in a new era of sophistication to Australia’s playground. Comprising 169 guest rooms and suites and 170 luxury residences, nestled on absolute beachfront with sweeping views of Surfers Paradise and beyond, The Langham, Gold Coast is the ultimate location to relax and be inspired.