Assistant Chief Steward - voco Orchard… at IHG Hotels &… · Singapore

As our Assistant Chief Steward, you'll support the smooth day-to-day running of the stewarding operation by leading the stewarding team and ensuring the highest standards of cleanliness, hygiene and safety across all back-of-house areas. You'll help keep the kitchen running efficiently by coordinating cleaning operations, maintaining equipment, supporting stock control and developing your team to deliver a safe and well-organised working environment.

About us

voco Orchard Singapore provide guests with the world-renowned voco™ experience from the moment they walk through its doors. Famed to be hotels to count on, yet different enough to be fun, voco hotels are unstuffy hotels where people feel comfortable to relax, and just get on with life. Hotels that stand out from the crowd, voco combines familiar comforts with the indulgences of a hotel, to create somewhere that’s dependable, but not vanilla. Somewhere premium, but with a laidback spirit.

Your Day to Day

voco Orchard Singapore is seeking a dynamic and dedicated Assistant Chief Steward to be part of our team. As Assistant Chef Steward, you are responsible for supervising the Kitchen Stewards and supporting the Back of House team to deliver an excellent Guest and Host experience. The Assistant Chef Steward will also be required to coordinate other kitchen responsibilities, making sure Back of House areas are maintained, and ensure that health and safety are top priorities. Specifically, you will be responsible for performing the following tasks to the highest standards:

• Supervise the Kitchen Stewards and ensuring high standards
• Support the stewarding team in training and development
• Coordinate the daily pot-wash and dish wash responsibilities
• Ensure Back of House areas are maintained to the highest cleanliness standards and cleaning schedules are followed and completed
• Observe chemical safe handling guidelines when handling hazardous substances and comply with all aspects of Health and Safety requirements
• Report faults, misused or damaged equipment issues to the General/Hotel Manager, Executive Chef, and/or Chief Engineer
• Ensure the correct personal protective equipment is in place and guidelines are adhered to
• Ensure machinery is operated properly, efficiently, safely and in accordance with occupational health and safety regulations
• Assist in the location, movement and storage of operational equipment
• Assist in the stock take of equipment and other items as required
• Ensure team members adhere to all Health and Safety and Hygiene Regulations
• Carry out any other reasonable task set by the supervisor

What we need from you

• Secondary school education equivalent or above.
• At least 5 years of working experience in Stewarding/Cleaning and 2 years as a Stewarding Supervisor in an international hotel chain.
• Good working knowledge of HACCP and hygiene procedures
• Works well in stressful situations, remains calm under pressure and able to think on his feet.
• Physical stamina to perform required housekeeping duties.
• Commitment to work rotating shifts, weekends and public holidays.
• Great communication skills, ability to interact with guests, employees and third parties that reflect highly on the hotel, the brand and the company.

What we need from you

We’ll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits – great room discount and superb training.

Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care: that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve - visit www.http://careers.ihg.com to find out more about us.

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