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About the Role
Oversee daily kitchen operations and lead the culinary team in banquet, restaurant, and bar operations at Fairmont Austin. Drive recipe development, menu innovation, and foster culinary talent while ensuring exceptional guest experiences and adherence to safety standards.
Responsibilities
- Oversees daily kitchen operation and sets direction of culinary department
- Contribute to and execution of preparation of financial forecasts and budgets
- Ensuring proper inventory control and ordering practices are utilized
- Meeting or exceed goals as identified through employee engagement surveys and hotel culture
- Leading initiatives to guarantee Guest Satisfaction Scores, LQA and Reputation performance score are overachieved
- Training and development of culinary team members with emphasis on team leads, food presentation and preparation methods
- Ensure the kitchen is maintained in optimum condition according to local health and safety laws and Fairmont/Accor standards
- Strives to advance his/her knowledge, skills and abilities and consistently shares same with others
- Instrumental in running a department that meets Health & Safety committee objectives
- Delegation, planning and communication with subordinate culinary leaders
- Key player in menu development and implementation of banquet, restaurant and lounge menus with consideration to concept, food trends, Guest Satisfaction results & food cost
- Lead kitchen and department head meetings
Requirements
- Minimum of 10 years hospitality experience with 5 years’ experience at the management level
- Luxury and large hotel experience required
- Preferably in an Executive Chef position a minimum of 3 years
- Valid trade qualifications
- Exceptional organization skills to manage a large banquet and event operation
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- A team player with the ability to train, coach and motivate employees
- Product and quality obsessed with good knowledge in menu engineering and design
- Previous experience scheduling of a large culinary team
- Proficient understanding of labor costs and productivity
- Versed on calculation of food cost
- Experience with conducting food inventories and understanding of inventory turn-over
- Understanding of safe work practices and initiatives to reduce or eliminate accidents
- Self-motivated, detail oriented and well organized with creative flair
Skills
- Recipe development
- Menu engineering
- Menu design
- Food trends
- Guest Satisfaction analysis
- Food cost calculation
- Inventory management
- Team leadership
- Training and coaching
- Health and safety compliance
- Financial forecasting
- Budget management
- Scheduling
Location
- Austin
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full-Time
Experience Level
- Management level (5 years)
- Executive Chef (3 years preferred)
Education Level
- Valid trade qualifications
About the Company
- Austin's largest luxury property, Fairmont Austin offers 1,048 guestrooms and suites, along with over 140,000 square feet of meeting and event space.
- Part of the most innovative and passionate hotel teams in one of the fastest growing markets in the United States.
- Accor is a worldwide leader that welcomes you as you are and supports you to grow and learn every day, making sure that work brings purpose to your life.
- Discover the life that awaits you at Accor, visit https://careers.accor.com/
- We are a team of Heartists that are committed to working together, supporting each other, and providing the best guest experience.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an inclusive company and our ambition is to attract, recruit and promote diverse talent.
- We commit to a future where diverse identities are celebrated, and equitable and inclusive practices are woven into the fabric of everything we do as an organization.
- Fairmont Austin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. EOE/M/F/D/V