Chef de Partie Pastry - Halekulani

The Chef de Partie Pastry is responsible for the preparation, execution, and presentation of all dessert items within the restaurant outlets, adhering to departmental quality standards and specifications. Maintaining a clean, organized, and safe work environment is essential.

• Essential Functions:
• Anticipates and promptly responds to guest needs, maintaining positive guest relations. Demonstrates familiarity with hotel services, local attractions, and proactively assists with resolving guest complaints.
• Complies with all departmental policies, service procedures, and hotel standards.
• Properly maintains all kitchen equipment.
• Completes opening duties, including setting up the workstation, inspecting equipment, reviewing the production schedule, identifying priority items, and requisitioning necessary supplies. Transports supplies from the storeroom and stocks designated areas.
• Assists in the preparation of daily items.
• Minimizes waste and maintains food cost controls.
• Completes closing duties, including returning and rotating food items, properly wrapping, covering, and labeling food, cleaning work areas, returning utensils and equipment, and restocking items.
• Meets with the Executive Pastry Chef/Assistant Pastry Chef to review assignments, anticipated business levels, changes, and pertinent job performance information. Reviews work status and follow-up actions as required.
• Prepares and executes the production of all dessert menu items (cakes, pies, pastries, tarts, platted desserts, soufflés, chocolate work, etc.) and ice cream production, following recipes and yield guides.
• Maintains a neat presentation of all pastry goods.
• Informs the Executive Pastry Chef of excess items for potential use in daily specials or elsewhere.
• Checks the bulletin board for daily and future functions (banquets, room service pre-orders, restaurant parties), and performs other duties as assigned.

• Supervisory Requirements:
• Reports To: Executive Pastry Chef, Assistant Pastry Chef
• Supervises: None

• Education/Experience:
• High school diploma or equivalent vocational training certificate, prior restaurant service and guest relations experience preferred.
• Minimum three (3) years of experience as a Pastry Cook at a 4-star Hotel or Restaurant; or any combination of education and experience which would provide the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities required in performing the essential functions of this position.

• LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS:
• Food handling/Food Sanitation certificate desired.
• Certification of Culinary training or apprenticeship program preferred.

• Physical Demands:
• Ability to exert physical effort to transport up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to endure various physical movements throughout the work areas.
• Ability to reach 5 feet.
• Maintain a stationary position for extended hours throughout work shift.

• Work Environment:
• Main Kitchen, Pastry/Bake Shop, Stewarding areas
• Indoor, air-conditioned office
• Indoor/Outdoor, non-air conditioned
• Exposure to variable temperature conditions.
• Exposure to variable noise levels.
• Exposure to dust, chemicals, fumes, mites, and/or odor hazards.

Other Details:

• Pay Type: Hourly
• Minimum Hiring Rate: $28.36
• Maximum Hiring Rate: $33.36
• Location: Halekulani, 2199 Kalia Road, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

• Hourly pay rate between $28.36 and $33.36.
• Food handling/Food Sanitation certificate desired.
• Certification of Culinary training or apprenticeship program preferred.

• Minimum three (3) years of experience as a Pastry Cook in a 4-star hotel or restaurant.
• Strong organizational and multi-tasking skills.
• Ability to maintain positive guest relations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of French culinary terms.