# Head Chef

Head Chef | Luxury Hotel | Midrand Kendrick Recruitment is seeking an experienced and passionate Head Chef to join a prestigious luxury hotel in Midrand, Gauteng. The successful candidate will take responsibility for leading the kitchen operation, maintaining exceptional culinary standards and ensuring a consistently high-quality dining experience for guests. Key Responsibilities Lead and manage the kitchen team, ensuring smooth and efficient daily operations. Oversee food preparation, presentation and service across the property. Develop and maintain consistently high culinary standards. Plan menus and contribute creative ideas to enhance the guest dining experience. Monitor food quality, portion control, stock levels and wastage. Ensure compliance with all food safety, hygiene and health regulations. Manage kitchen costs and work towards achieving agreed food cost targets. Train, mentor and develop junior and senior kitchen team members. Manage kitchen rosters, staffing requirements and daily operational priorities. Work closely with the hotel management team to ensure excellent overall guest service. Maintain a clean, organised and professional kitchen environment. Requirements

- **Id**: 3568323
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/job-mail-head-chef-13>
- **Role**: Hospitality
- **Role family**: Hospitality
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Midrand, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-31T13:33:21Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-31
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-02T20:16:10Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-02T20:16:10Z
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2142
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 701519
- **Name**: Job Mail
- **Domain**: jobmail.co.za
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/job-mail>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: yes
- **Listed via**: jobmail.co.za
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

## Salary

- **Min**: 25000
- **Currency**: ZAR
- **Period**: month
- **Usd annual**: 17976

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-31T13:33:21Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-02T20:16:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 17976
- **Is top pay**: no

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