- Johannesburg
- Salary: Market Related
- Job Type: Permanent
- Sectors: Aviation Hospitality Management
- Benefits: Training Parking Maternity Leave
- Reference: SC-C/JHB/04/2024
Vacancy Details
Employer: Air Chefs
- Preparing, Cooking, and plating meals according to menu specification
- Lead team meeting, review performance and determine actions.
- Review performance, identify problem areas and determine decisions and actions required
- Set and ensure progress and achievement of performance target.
- Production Planning and control - Product output and control using daily flight Schedule, production plan and figures obtain from systems and planning.
- Implement and enforce process and systems controls to ensure an effective and efficient operation.
- Ensure and place stock orders on stipulated time gates according to figures provided by systems and planning.
- Validate material requirements and Interpretation of recipes in order to meet mass catering and daily forecasting.
- Manage and monitor preparation of staff canteen meals.
- Communicate with stores and QC to ensure that all times that are due to expire are used effectively.
- Communicate Deviations procedurally.
- Create Job cards for plating, cooking, pre-preparation and butchery.
- Issue, validate and handover CCP documents to QA at end of each shift.
- Ensure that daily meal tasting and specification compliance (portion control, e.tc ) table is conducted daily with junior chefs
- Ensure that extras are prepared, signed and handed over to the uplift team.
- Participate in food safety audits and provide feedback when non-conformances are noted.
- Weekend standby and able to work shift and irregular hours.
- Monitor food safety management systems.
- Monitor SHEQ management systems.
- Comply and monitor with all required SAP functions. - stock reservation, confirmation of production orders and stock take
- Ensure that stock rotation is carried out on daily basis (FEFO and FIFO)
- Research and development work if and when needed.
- Participate in month end stock take and ensure proper stock rotation and management.
- Compliance with deviation procedure.
- Conduct on job training of staff.
- Respond to customer complaints.
- Comply with all company policies and legal requirements.
- Compulsory daily, weekly and month reports (wastage, deviations, absenteeism ,Job cards , etc)
- Implement and action reasonable additional instructions from time to time
- Represent Production in a positive, pleasant and fair manner by providing excellent customer service to clients at all time
- Serve as a role model and adhere to Production guidelines at all times
- Handle requests and concerns in a friendly, fair and impartial manner at all times.
- Supports the Company vision, mission and values
- Recommends cost saving initiatives and control expenditure within approved parameters.
- Set annual scorecard & targets and ensure understanding an alignment by team members
- Enhance team spirit and identify issues to be addressed.
- Review team performance vs. scorecard and targets
- Review individual performance vs. scorecard and targets.
- Conduct regular, ongoing feedback on performance.
- Initiate and manage own development
- Conduct training needs analysis for team to identify gaps.
- Develop individuals according to gaps & plan.
- Coach team members and provide ongoing support.
- New employees inducted effectively.
- Ensure pipeline coverage and development.
- Apply and sustain IR initiatives, policies, procedures, agreements & company values and enhance team spirit.
- Manage conflict and counsel for performance.
- Conduct formal disciplinary hearing as required.
- Incapacitate for poor performance / incompetence.
- Plan manpower to support production & maintenance requirements.
- Process temporary requisitions, induct and utilise temporary employees for ad hoc requirements as per the Labour relations Act.
- Complete time and attendance records, reconcile clocks and action time errors.
- Ensure leave and absenteeism information is captured, processed and set up leave plans for the team.
- Ensure a healthy team dynamics/ management of diversity.
- Encourage team to participate in organisational surveys, understand the team feedback and develop action plans to rectify.
- Drive improved shift handovers.
- Continually investigate opportunities to improve productivity.
- Support initiatives that deliver growth to the business
- Facilitate and document problem solving.
- Adhere to and ensure sub-ordinates adherence to all guidelines related to Security, SHE and operational policies and procedures.
- Issue, control and ensure use of protective/ hygiene clothing.
- Ensure reporting, investigation, documentation and action of safety incidents.
- Assign work and monitor the adherence by service providers according to the scope of work as determined in service level agreement
- Comply with all food safety management requirements
Candidate Requirements
Education Level: (minimum)
Diploma in Hospitality Management or Diploma in Food & Beverage or equivalent
Training and Experience:
- Minimum of 4 to 6 years’ experience as a chef in the airline or catering Industry.
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in middle management
- Computer literacy.
- Valid driver’s license
- Excellent communication skills (Verbal & Written)
- Excellent leadership skills
- Good understanding of industrial relations
- Basic business management skills
- nowledge of SAP an advantage
- Knowledge of food safety management systems
- Knowledge of SHEQ management
- Ability to perform in a highly pressurized environment.
- Hands on management
- Able to do strategic planning and show continuous improvement in productivity.
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About Air Chefs
At Air Chefs, we know that we are nothing without the passionate people who work hard to uphold our high standards. Our 1 200 employees are the strength and driving force behind our proud brand.
Every day, our people live and work to reflect our values: Accountability, Integrity, Respect, Customer-centricity, Honesty, People, Food that delights and Safety. We believe that this value-driven culture is the cornerstone to our success. That’s why hard work, passion and dedication are consistently recognised and rewarded in our company.
Through regular training, we also provide growth opportunities for all our employees. Ongoing training, both in-house and externally, ensures that we have a top-notch team capable of offering the quality of service we pride ourselves in.
As a growing and stimulating company, we are constantly in search of great talent to join our winning teams across the country. We pride ourselves in attracting hardworking, entrepreneurial spirits who understand the value of teamwork.
With over 1 200 Air Chefs employees in South Africa servicing our airline and corporate clients, we offer opportunities across a wide range of skills.
If you are focussed, goal-driven and keen to join a growing team in the food service industry in operations, support services or executive level, Air Chefs may be the place for you.
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