Senior Sous Chef in Lisburn

Are you a passionate and driven culinary professional ready to take the next step in your career? We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Senior Sous Chef to join the talented kitchen team at Hilton Belfast. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a fast paced, high quality hospitality environment where creativity, leadership, and exceptional food standards are at the heart of everything we do.

Alongside your culinary duties, you will be responsible for supporting the wider kitchen team with daily operational tasks and people management tasks. Reporting directly to the Head Chef, you will oversee the presentation of all food leaving the kitchen in their absence and uphold expectations, reputation and standards.

Contract: Permanent, 40 Hours Per Week | 5 Days Over 7 | Monday–Sunday Rota

What we offer:

• Competitive salary
• Career development and progression opportunities
• Supportive and dynamic team environment
• Staff meals whilst on duty
• Employee benefits and hotel discounts for both Hilton and Axiom Hospitality

If you are ambitious, creative, and ready to bring energy and leadership to our kitchen team, we would love to hear from you.

Our ideal candidate:

We want to hear from inspired chefs who love creating amazing food from the best ingredients, have a keen eye for detail and high standards but with bags of flair and creativity. The ideal person for this role will be enthusiastic about change, focused on details and trusting. If you are passionate & looking to develop within a truly talented team, get in touch with us today!

Responsibilities of the role will include but are not limited to:

• Assist the Head Chef to develop new dishes and menus.
• Assist the Head Chef in food purchases while controlling costs.
• Prepare, cook and present dishes within your speciality.
• Support, mentor and train any talented junior chefs in the brigade.
• Ensure you and your team have the highest standards of cleanliness, food hygiene and health and safety.

You'll work in a busy and hardworking team environment, where you'll continually learn and develop.

The core skills and experience required to succeed:

• Truly passionate about the Hospitality Industry
• Previous experience in working in highly acclaimed venues which have a reputation for great service
• Commercial business acumen
• Previous knowledge and experience in stock takes, ordering, and team management
• Ability to work under pressure to deadlines and targets
• Understanding of the hospitality and travel industry
• Ability to function independently with a minimum of supervision
• Excellent communication skills, the ability to communicate verbally and in writing
• To be an enthusiastic team player with a flexible approach and have experience in empowering a team to successfully meet expectations
• Results focussed with an overwhelming desire to succeed
• Previous experience in hotels is preferred
• You must have the right to work in the UK to be eligible for this role.

Documented evidence of eligibility will be required from all candidates prior to commencing employment.

Benefits:

• Worldwide employee discounts at Hilton Hotels through Go Hilton program
• Hotel discounts across all Axiom Hospitality hotels – colleague rates and up to 50% discount on F&B
• 28 days holiday, including bank holidays, increasing yearly to 33 days
• Discounts across retail, restaurants, events and more through our benefits & rewards portal
• Access to our Employee Assistance Line to support your Mental Health and Wellbeing
• Use of Wagestream Financial Wellbeing platform, allowing instant access to your pay
• Yearly complimentary Axiom Xcape stayover after one year of service
• A growing team with great training, progression, and promotion opportunities
• Rewards for referring a friend: referral bonus for recommending a new team member starts at £250 per successful hire
• Free meals while on shift
• Length of service awards, ranging from 1 year to 3, 5, 10 and 20-year rewards and more!

Opportunities for all:

At Axiom Hospitality, we thrive on differences and believe it is critical to our success as a fast-growing hospitality company with global aspirations. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace that seeks to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from various backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We, therefore, encourage applications from all genders, races, religions, ages, and sexual orientations, as well as parents, veterans, people living with disabilities, and any other groups that could bring diverse perspectives to our business.

At Axiom Hospitality, we are making efforts to reduce our carbon, energy, water and waste footprint. We strive to be ethical in all we do and want to be a thriving, sustainable and responsible business for our people, our communities and our planet. Working closely with our Hotel Owners, we are committed to the journey to sustainability. In addition, we are working to reduce our hotels' impact on the environment through internationally recognised eco-label certification. Our hotels strive to be active members of their local communities by giving back where they can. Supporting local charities is important to our teams, from volunteering at soup kitchens to collecting donations and fundraising. Our hotels aim to leave a positive impact on their neighbourhoods. At Axiom Hospitality, we are working closely with our stakeholders to support our social impact commitment. Caring about people extends outside our business and is part of our DNA.