Director of Culinary

With thousands of hotels in over 100 countries and territories, Hilton offers countless opportunities to delight. From an open door to a welcoming smile and an exceptional experience, we offer the millions of travellers who stay with us every year a welcome they will never forget. In addition to our flagship brand, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, the family of brands includes Waldorf Astoria, LXR, Conrad, Canopy, Curio Collection, DoubleTree, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton and many others.

If you appreciate the impact global travel can have on the world, you may be just the person we are looking for to work as a Hilton Team Member. Because it’s with Hilton where we never forget the reason we’re here: to delight our guests, Team Members, and owners alike.

A Director of Culinary manages and leads the culinary operation to ensure it runs smoothly and meets Hilton standards.

What will I be doing? 

As the Director of Culinary, you will be responsible for performing the following tasks to the highest standards:

• Oversee culinary operations in all restaurant’s Kitchens, including Pastry, Main Kitchen, Chinese Kitchen, Executive Club Lounge Kitchen as well as stewarding operations.
• Work at off-site events when requested.
• Plan, prepare and implement high quality food and beverage products and set-ups in all areas and in the restaurants.
• Work seamlessly with recipes, standards and plating guides.
• Maintain all HACCP aspects within the hotel operation.
• Use all equipment, tools and machines appropriately.
• Focus on constantly improving the training manuals and SOPs.
• Participate actively in quality initiatives such as the daily Chef briefings and monthly team meetings in order to improve culinary operations, meet targets and keep communication flowing.
• Assist in inventory taking.
• Knowledgeable of hotel’s occupancy, events, forecasts and achievements.
• Prepare menus as requested.
• Work on new dishes for food tastings and photo taking.
• Attend service briefings.
• Communicate effectively with the Service team.
• Control stations within the kitchen.
• Effectively respond to every guests’ requests.
• Learn and adapt to changes.
• Be receptive to constructive feedback.
• Purchase for and control production
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