Ideally positioned on the banks of the River Lagan, Hilton Belfast offers a central and vibrant location, just moments from the city's top cultural landmarks, thriving nightlife, and key business districts.
Sous Chef Join the Team at Hilton Belfast
Are you a passionate and driven Sous Chef ready to take the next step in your culinary career? We’re looking for a talented leader to join our kitchen team at Hilton Belfast, where exceptional food and unforgettable guest experiences are at the heart of everything we do.
About the Role
As Sous Chef, you’ll work closely with the Head Chef to lead a dynamic kitchen team, ensuring consistently high standards across all food offerings—from à la carte dining to large scale events and conferences.
What You’ll Be Doing
Supporting the Head Chef in the day-to-day running of the kitchen
Leading, inspiring, and developing a high-performing brigade
Maintaining exceptional food quality, presentation, and consistency
Ensuring compliance with food safety and hygiene standards
Contributing to menu development and seasonal innovation
Managing stock, ordering, and cost control
Why Hilton Belfast?
Located in the heart of the city, Hilton Belfast is a flagship property known for its vibrant atmosphere, high standards, and commitment to excellence. You’ll be part of a globally recognised brand that values innovation, teamwork, and outstanding hospitality
Benefits
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Worldwide employee discounts at Hilton Hotels through Go Hilton program;
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Hotel discounts across all Axiom Hospitality hotels – colleague rates and up to 50% discount on F&B;
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28 days holiday, including bank holidays, increasing yearly to 33 days;
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Discounts across retail, restaurants, events and more through our benefits & rewards portal;
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Access to our Employee Assistance Line to support your Mental Health and Wellbeing;
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Use of Wagestream Financial Wellbeing platform, allowing instant access to your pay;
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Yearly complimentary Axiom Xcape stayover after one year of service;
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A growing team with great training, progression, and promotion opportunities;
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Rewards for referring a friend: referral bonus for recommending a new team member starts at £250 per successful hire;
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Free meals while on shift;
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Length of service awards, ranging from 1 year to 3, 5, 10 and 20-year rewards and more!
What We’re Looking For
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Previous experience as a Sous Chef or strong Junior Sous ready to step up
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A genuine passion for food and creativity in the kitchen
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Strong leadership and team development skills
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Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-volume environment
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Solid understanding of food safety and HACCP
Specifically, you will be responsible for, but not limited to, performing the following tasks to the highest standards:
Assisting in Leading Kitchen Operations for Property
- Provides direction for all day-to-day operations.
- Understands employee positions well enough to perform duties in employees' absence or determine appropriate replacement to fill gaps.
- Provides guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
- Utilizes interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and encourage others; advocates sound financial/business decision making; demonstrates honesty/integrity; leads by example.
- Encourages and builds mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
- Serving as a role model to demonstrate appropriate behaviors.
- Ensures property policies are administered fairly and consistently.
- Reviews staffing levels to ensure that guest service, operational needs and financial objectives are met.
- Establishes and maintains open, collaborative relationships with employees and ensures employees do the same within the team.
- Solicits employee feedback, utilizes an "open door" policy and reviews employee satisfaction results to identify and address employee problems or concerns.
- Supervises and coordinates activities of cooks and workers engaged in food preparation.
- Demonstrate new cooking techniques and equipment to staff.
Setting and Maintaining Goals for Culinary Function and Activities
- Develops and implements guidelines and control procedures for purchasing and receiving areas.
- Establishes goals including performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc.
- Communicates the importance of safety procedures, detailing procedure codes, ensuring employee understanding of safety codes, monitoring processes and procedures related to safety.
- Manages department controllable expenses including food cost, supplies, uniforms and equipment.
- Participates in the budgeting process for areas of responsibility.
- Knows and implements the brand's safety standards.
Ensuring Culinary Standards and Responsibilities are Met
- Provides direction for menu development.
- Monitors the quality of raw and cooked food products to ensure that standards are met.
- Determines how food should be presented, and create decorative food displays.
- Recognizes superior quality products, presentations and flavor.
- Ensures compliance with food handling and sanitation standards.
- Follows proper handling and right temperature of all food products.
- Ensures employees maintain required food handling and sanitation certifications.
- Maintains purchasing, receiving and food storage standards.
- Prepares and cooks foods of all types, either on a regular basis or for special guests or functions.
Ensuring Exceptional Customer Service
- Provides and supports service behaviors that are above and beyond for customer satisfaction and retention.
- Improves service by communicating and assisting individuals to understand guest needs, providing guidance, feedback, and individual coaching when needed.
- Manages day-to-day operations, ensuring the quality, standards and meeting the expectations of the customers on a daily basis.
- Displays leadership in guest hospitality, exemplifies excellent customer service and creates a positive atmosphere for guest relations.
- Interacts with guests to obtain feedback on product quality and service levels.
- Responds to and handles guest problems and complaints.
- Empowers employees to provide excellent customer service. Establishes guidelines so employees understand expectations and parameters. Ensures employees receive on-going training to understand guest expectations.
- Reviews comment cards, guest satisfaction results and other data to identify areas of improvement.
Additional Responsibilities
- Provides information to executive teams, managers and supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Analyzes information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
Growing the business
- To positively approach sales opportunities in order to maximize sales revenue and exceed budgeted targets for the department.
- To assist with and suggest promotional opportunities to enhance departmental sales to meet and exceed budget. This to include planning, implementation and review of food promotions where required.
- To keep all department team members sales focused.
People Management
- To lead and create a team environment which promotes good employee morale
- and ensures a high level of commitment and pride in the hotel.
- To maintain effective communication within your team by assisting with regular
- briefing sessions and attending hotel meetings when required.
- To supervise the work of trainee and Commis Chefs, including their use of dangerous equipment.
- To assist with the kitchen training plan to meet the hotel business objectives and develop team members.
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.
Having these core skills will put you one step further to joining Axiom Hospitality and the Hilton Belfast
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.
