Sous Chef - Pastry

Your Fairmont Journey Starts Here:

Are you a someone with a passion for excellence and a flair for exceptional hospitality? Fairmont Udaipur Palace invites you to embark on an unforgettable journey of luxury and join our pre-opening team.

What you will be doing:

• Review the daily operations with the pastry team, prepare the necessary food items in accordance with Fairmont standards in a timely and efficient manner
• Conduct daily shift briefings with pastry team members
• Effectively manage food costs and production control to reduce wastage
• Supervise, provide guidance and training to pastry team in all food preparation and execution of the events.  
• Assist with creating menus, recipes, pictures and training materials to ensure consistency, efficiency to meet the set standards.
• Lead the charge on all Fairmont standards, train employees on menus and cooking procedures
• Kitchen maintenance and cleaning. Following food safety requirements.
• Maintaining proper rotation of product in all chillers to minimize spoilage
• Follow all safety and sanitation policies when handling food
• Ensure that all food products are handled, stored, prepared and served safely in accordance with hotel and Food Safety guidelines. Ensure that all standards and processes are completed on a daily basis, this includes but isn’t limited to filling out daily temperature logs, labelling and dating of items as well ensuring food storage areas are cleaned daily.
• Food preparation and cooking, plating, presentation
• Apply 5 Diamond and 5 Star Service Standards at all times

Your experience and skills include:

• Previous experience in both luxury hotel and restaurant environment is an asset
• Strong knowledge of Chocolate work and design
• Strong knowledge of restaurant dessert design
• Creative and passionate about food and customer service
• Is a self-starter and displays initiative and curiosity for all food related items
• Able to give clear direction, set expectations and provide training to team members
• Able to work without supervision and display sound decisions make skills
• Ability to read, understand and follow recipes within the guidelines
• Ability to read a prep list and determine in what sequence of order job should be complete
• Ability to multi task, prioritize and manage time efficiently to ensure job completion
• Strong organization skills
• Ability to listen, follow directions precisely to achieve the end result
• Stays current & knowledgeable of both local and global cuisine trends, applying those into our offerings
• Able to work in a fast paced, high-pressure environment
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; a team player.
• Completion of a recognized culinary program
• A neat, well-groomed appearance as per hotel standards
• Must be available to work a variety of shifts including evenings, weekends and holidays
• Career minded with strong personal initiative and a desire to achieve the department’s vision and goal
• Physically fit to stand for long periods of time and lift 20kg regularly throughout a shift

Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

We are an inclusive company, and our ambition is to attract, recruit and promote diverse talent.