Description
The Demi Chef de Partie is responsible for producing and executing products according to daily menus, checklists, and operational needs as per the Executive Chef de Cuisine. This role plays an integral part in providing a service to Seabourn guests, ensuring that all food items served meet the company's standards for quality, quantity, attractiveness, and correctness.
Key responsibilities include:
- Producing food in the assigned station in the kitchen in accordance with established company menus and recipes.
- Ensuring the quality, quantity, attractiveness, and correctness of all food items served from the station.
- Controlling actual hours worked and complying with MLC2006 and reporting any discrepancies between these and the published work schedules to the Sous Chef.
- Checking that quantity and quality of items ordered from stores are received and stored in proper condition and thereafter used in the correct way, FIFO.
Additionally, the Demi Chef de Partie is responsible for:
- Executing food handling and cleaning procedures in accordance with USPH standards in the assigned station.
- Implementing and executing proper maintenance and cleaning procedures in the station assigned to them.
- Maintaining a high level of productivity, cleanliness, and sanitation throughout the entire station at all times.
- Ensuring that proper work and cleaning methods are being followed to produce and serve safe, wholesome, high-quality, and attractive food for passengers and crew.
This role requires a degree or diploma from an accredited culinary college or university, with 2+ years of experience in a 5-star hotel, cruise ship, or high-profile restaurant performing similar functions. Certification from an accredited advanced food safety program is also required.
The Demi Chef de Partie must be able to bend, climb, perform repetitive motion, and repetitively heavy lift, and maintain physical fitness to perform tasks associated with the job. Travel requirements include a valid passport, flag state-issued seaman book, and general flag state or flag state-approved marine fitness medical certificate.