Chef de Partie

This is your chance to join one of NZ's Top Kitchen Teams, creating truly exceptional food in an unrivalled environment.

Holding Two Hats in the Cuisine Good Food Awards for the last three years, Sherwood is a truly unique restaurant and 78 room Eco Hotel situated in Queenstown central overlooking Lake Wakatipu.

We are more than just a restaurant with a large kitchen garden attended to by a full time horticulturist which provides the focus for our hyper seasonal menus, served alongside a 100% natural wine program.

With a focus on sustainability, community programming, live music, function spaces as well as a 120 seater restaurant Sherwood is a large, dynamic operation.

Position Overview:

A Chef de Partie plays a crucial role in the kitchen team. You will be responsible for ensuring the quality and consistency of our dishes by overseeing a specific section of the kitchen according to the chef's recipes and specifications. You will guide, mentor, and teach junior chefs as well as ensuring fridges and stores are clean and tidy across all kitchens.

Key Accountabilities:

• Food Preparation: Prepare and cook dishes according to the restaurant's recipes and quality standards.
• Quality Control: Maintain high standards of food quality, taste, and presentation, and regularly taste and adjust dishes, as necessary.
• Station Management: Oversee your designated section of the kitchen, ensuring all food items are prepared and presented to perfection.
• Inventory Management: Assist in monitoring and managing inventory levels, including ordering supplies as needed.
• Safety and Hygiene: Adhere to food safety and hygiene standards, and ensure your station is clean, organized, and properly maintained.
• Training: Assist in training and mentoring junior kitchen staff, providing guidance on cooking techniques and best practices.
• Menu Innovation: Work closely with the sous chef and head chef to develop new dishes, create specials, and contribute to menu development.

Skills & Experience:

These are the desired skills and experience for this role:

• Proven experience as a Chef de Partie or a similar role in a similar quality venue or hotel.
• Food safety and hygiene certification is required/a plus.

Behavioural Capabilities:

• Collaboration: Accepts and appreciates other people; demonstrates courtesy and compassion; supports, encourages, and thanks others; consults, listens, and understands others; promotes diversity and builds morale, team cohesion, and collaboration.
• Communication:Understands spoken and written information; speaks and writes clearly and understandably;
• Dependability:Focuses on understanding and addressing customer needs; sets ambitious standards for work quality and quantity; delivers high productivity in a focused and timely manner; structures and prioritises work activities; shows commitment to the organisation.
• Resilience:Works productively under pressure; maintains a positive outlook; controls emotions; handles failure or criticism well and learns from it.
• Creativity and Innovation: Embraces innovative ideas; seeks out diverse perspectives; reassesses, experiments, and brainstorms to generate ideas and insights; thinks in new and diverse ways to create innovative approaches and solutions.
• Initiative: Tackles demanding goals enthusiastically; seeks out progressively more difficult assignments and roles; proactively identifies and acts on opportunities and improvement areas; accomplishes work autonomously; strives to outperform others

This is a fantastic opportunity to join one of the most progressive hospitality operations in the country and showcase your talents as both a chef & leader at the top of your game.