Junior Sous Chef
- Location
- Mossel Bay, Western Cape
- Contract
- Permanent
- Minimum qualification
- Diploma
- Closing date
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In brief
**Overview** Bushwise, an award-winning, 5-star private game reserve located along the scenic Garden Route, is seeking a Junior Sous Chef. This role is a key supervisory position intended to bridge the gap between kitchen management and the Chef de Parties, helping oversee daily operations, maintaining high culinary standards, and curating world-class dining experiences in a spectacular bush setting. **What you will do** * Assist the Head Chef and Sous Chef in managing daily kitchen operations, supervising service delivery, and stepping up to run the shift in their absence. * Maintain consistency, exceptional plating aesthetics, and peak flavor profiles across all breakfast, lunch, high tea, and dinner services. * Oversee the smooth execution of specialized catering setups, including multi-course fine dining, interactive open-fire bomas, and luxury wilderness picnics. * Assist with stock takes, ordering, receiving, and tight portion control to optimize kitchen food costs while eliminating waste. * Mentor, train, and manage the kitchen brigade, fostering a collaborative, disciplined, and highly motivated team culture. * Strictly enforce health and safety regulations, hygiene standards, and systematic deep cleaning routines across all kitchen sections (HACCP Compliance). **Requirements (from the original advert)** * **Education:** A recognized professional culinary certificate, diploma, or degree. * **Experience:** Minimum of 4–6 years of professional kitchen experience, with at least 1–2 years serving as a Senior Chef de Partie or Junior Sous Chef in a 4 or 5-star luxury lodge, remote resort, or premium fine-dining restaurant. * **Technical Skills:** Advanced culinary skills across all sections, menu contribution capabilities, and strong leadership/people management skills. * **Lodge Mindset:** Passionate about remote luxury hospitality and fully comfortable living and working in a pristine wilderness environment on a flexible hospitality shift roster. * **Characteristics:** Excellent communication skills, calm under high-pressure service windows, solution-oriented, and highly reliable. **Who should apply** This role is suitable for a driven, organized, and highly skilled individual. The ideal candidate will be passionate about remote luxury hospitality, fully comfortable living and working in a pristine wilderness environment on a flexible hospitality shift roster, and possess excellent communication skills, a calm demeanor under high-pressure service windows, a solution-oriented approach, and high reliability. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.jobmail.co.za/jobs/it-computer/other-it-computer/mossel-bay/junior-sous-chef-id-7607614 Source: jobmail
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