Commis Chef

The placement opportunity includes the following departments and positions:

Department: Orientation
Position: Orientation
Duration: 0.5 month
Job Description:
You will receive orientation to the company and local community and includes learning about our company’s customers, culture, business strategies, etc.; learn about payroll schedules and payroll tax withholding; local training area, housing options, apartment complexes and transportation options; meet key contacts and other employees; receive computer training on company systems; receive orientation to local community including cultural centers, volunteer opportunities, local sporting events, and entertainment venues. Orientation is scheduled to take up to one month and takes places concurrently with the first phase of training.

Department: Culinary
Position: Garde Manger Cook
Duration: 2.5 months
Job Description:
You will learn to prepare and coordinate the production of cold food items in order to maintain high standards of quality; learn American contemporary styles of presenting food and preparation of buffets; learn to prepare all cold food items for buffet, banquet and restaurant use according to standard recipes, visually inspect appearance of all cold food for proper color combination and overall presentation to maintain appeal; prepare requisitions for supplies and food items for production in work stations; check and control proper storage of all food items in refrigerators and freezers to maintain product freshness.

Department: Culinary
Position: Meat/Grill (Hotline) Cook
Duration: 3 months
Job Description:
You will learn preparation of products such as savory items, entrees; learn culinary knife skills and cuts; learn product tasting, station organization, egg cookery, small sauce production, and protein cookery such as braising, stewing, roasting, sauteing, broiling, grilling, and poaching; learn the process for simultaneous preparation of several portions of vegetables, starches, and proteins; construction of food presentations on plates; and evaluation of the results.

Department: Culinary
Position: Sauce/Soup Station Cook
Duration: 3 months
Job Description:
Learn process for preparing the four essential parts of stock, demonstrate three methods for preparing stocks; identify the two basic kinds of soups and prepare using the basic ingredients for broth, consommé, puree, clear, and cream soups; grand sauces and prepare several kinds of sauces; cooking and cooling techniques for beef and chicken stock, de-grease stocks and finish product; planning and preparing clear, cream, puree, chowder, and cold soups; participate in soup and sauce cookery; preparation of all basic stocks, types of soups and sauces; the use of thickening agents in the preparation of this type of product, sweet sauce and their uses; observe and practice food production practices that meet federal and state regulations; prevention of food-borne illness through proper handling of potentially hazardous foods, HACCP procedures, legal guidelines, kitchen safety, facility sanitation, and guidelines for safe food preparation, storing, and reheating.

Department: Culinary
Position: Restaurant Chef de Partie
Duration: 3 months

Requirements

Eligibility criteria for our Career USA programs:

•⁠  ⁠You are enrolled in a post secondary ministerially recognized academic institution in the hospitality industry OR have a hospitality degree and at least 1 year of recent relevant work experience in the (ultra) luxury hotel industry (outside of the USA) OR have 5 years recent relevant work experience in the (ultra) luxury hotel industry (outside the USA)

•⁠  ⁠You have shown consistent career growth over the last years

•⁠  ⁠You have shown serious commitment to your most recent employers