Kitchen Stewarding Manager

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.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Assign in detail, specific duties to all employees under his supervision and instructs them in their work inclusive of external contracted employees.
• Prepare work schedule with computerized schedule planners and obtain advance approval of overtime and vacation on a weekly basis.
• Submit weekly payroll and overtime report to the Director of Culinary for approval.
• Ensure personal cleanliness and proper deportment of all employees under his supervision.
• Prepare operating equipment provision budget for glass, silver and chinaware in coordination with breakage and theft itemized cades.
• Bring to attention of any non-usable products to the Director of Culinary, record them as breakage and insures that par levels of equipment are kept up to date.
• Prepare and maintain all outlet par stocks with the Restaurant Managers and prepare coat breakage reports for section.
• Ensure proper sanitation standards are met through maintenance of local health and sanitation codes.
• Maintain contracts with vendors and supplier such as Garbage Disposal, Chemical Suppliers, Exterminator, Night Cleaning Contracts if applicable, and arranges special cleaning schedule when applicable.
• Ensure that all Food & Beverage garbage are properly sorted and removed from all areas and transferred to the garbage room.
• Coordinate maintenance of all back of the house equipment with the Director of Culinary and Director of Engineering and schedule weekly kitchen cleaning.
• Coordinate with the Food & Beverage Manager and Banquet Manager on all equipment pertaining to festivals, promotions and V.I.P. Banquet set up.
• Ensure a healthy and safe working environment.
• Maintain department communication logbook and update notice board.

Administration

• Motivator: set high standard and establishes demanding but achievable goals.
• Motivators performance, give helpful feedback, review process.
• Build commitment and inspire people to the best job possible.
• As a leader, communicate a clear vision of Fairmont Culture, values, standards and objective through your own attitudes, approaches and behaviours.

Financial and Revenue Responsibilities

• Balance the need of financial control with the need to remain with Fairmont standards and values.
• Analyses and responds appropriately to issues raised by guests or mystery shopper.
• Support Executive committee or Director of F&B decisions.
• Awareness of current and forecast financial/business performance or actively involved in analyzing or implementing required changes.
• Meet financial objective based on budget or forecast.

Training and Human Resources

• Induct new team stewarding team members following stewarding induction manual.
• Performance reviews done in a timely matter.
• Identifies employees development needs.
• Conduct training and development for team members.

Management Skill

• Through detailed, hands on, direct supervision ensure that the guidelines are followed.
• Establish personal procedures for promotion, nominate employee of the month, follow up on stewarding manual induction, job chat, 90 days reviews and yearly review.
• Participate actively to kitchen and stewarding monthly meeting.
• Report any problems to Director of Culinary, Executive Sous Chef or Sous Chefs.
• Liaise with senior chefs daily to ensure desired equipment requirement for plate up, buffet, cocktails, etc.
• Participate Weekly Back of House tour for cleanliness, Hygiene and maintenance.

To be fully conversant with:

• Hotel fire procedures.
• Has solid back of house, stewarding and organization skills.
• Has solid supervisory skills.
• Must be flexible with time as business required.
• Must be able communicate effectively.
• Has solid grooming /attendance standard.
• Proven experience to lead and motivate teams.
• Must possess good computer skills ( Office M/S).
• Hotel security procedures.
• Hotel Health and Safety policy and procedures.
• Hotel Facilities and attractions.
• Hotel standards of operation and departmental procedures.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience in same job role.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Strong operational & Technical knowledge.
• Strong Team Player and excellent in follow-ups.

Additional Information

Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion :

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