Company Overview
SilverStar Ski Resort Ltd is a premier destination for skiing, snowboarding, and mountain biking in Canada. Committed to providing exceptional outdoor experiences and hospitality, we value teamwork, safety, and customer satisfaction in everything we do.
Our Chef’s focus for this role will be to lead our Food Trailer outlet with guest experience as a top priority.
Maintaining cost of goods sold and keeping track of wage to revenue are other key factors.
They must comply with all health and safety regulations by ensuring adherence to sanitary and safe food handling guidelines at all times. The Chef will also be responsible for creating daily and weekly specials, menu development and overall quality of the food.
Employee Benefits:
As an employee there are many benefits including:
- Free Season Pass
- Discounts on Food & Beverage, Rentals, Retail and Repairs
- Family and Friends benefits on Lift Tickets and Accommodation
Responsibilities:
- Ensure consistent food preparation and the highest caliber of food presentation, taking advantage of all opportunities to improve upon both, and ensuring communication to the kitchen staff.
- Strong and effective communication with all departments specifically other Restaurants, groups and Catering. Being a leader for new seasonal chefs in other restaurants
- Ensure that the morale of the kitchen staff is maintained by practicing positive strategies to motivate staff, encourage self-esteem and efficiency.
- Coach and mentor new staff to ensure skills of team meet expectations for food quality, portions, and presentation.
- Strive to uphold a safe working environment and be Health and Safety conscious and actively involved in maintaining and improving a safe work environment. Ensure maintenance requests, incident reports and incident investigations are submitted and followed up with.
- Ensure cleanliness and hygiene is maintained in the various kitchen areas including refrigerators and storerooms and that food products are rotated to ensure high standards of freshness.
- Limiting wastage to ensure COG’s targets are met.
- Provide input for menus -- creating, developing, and recommending recipes for the use of other staff -- to create a consistent and quality food product.
- Order an inventory of food products for the preparation and operation, of an efficiently run kitchen ensuring to both eliminate outages or shorts and participate in any opportunities to minimize inventory levels, minimizing capital while ensuring clients' expectations are exceeded.
- Create, implement and maintain department objectives and ensure they are met and exceeded.
- Seek opportunities to increase food revenue, decrease kitchen expenses and maximize departmental productivity without compromising our clients' satisfaction.
- Oversee food deliveries to ensure the products have been delivered and stored according to the standards set by provincial health regulations
- Be the restaurant face for the kitchen and make an effort to talk with guests when time permits.
- Ensure the proper use of scales and measurements in all recipes, portioning, and food production by both yourself and the staff under your direct supervision.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Culinary Education Trade Papers, Red Seal or equivalent preferred.
- Certifications as required to comply with provincial regulations.
- Food Safe Certification.
- Minimum of 3 years' experience in a Chef position in a high volume and mid to upscale environment.
- Minimum of 5 years' combined experience in the trade of cooking.
- Financial management skills e.g., ability to understand and manage COG’s, operating budgets, forecasting and scheduling.
- Computer literate with MS Office applications.
Hours and Wage:
- Per week range between 20-40 F/T – Overtime as required
- $22-$24/hr plus Tip Pool
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Discounted or free food
- Employee assistance program
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Store discount
Work Location: In person
Pay: $22.00-$24.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Discounted or free food
- On-site parking
- Store discount
Work Location: In person
