Chef de Cuisine (m/f)

Cooking, leading and helping to shape the summer at Lake Thun

For our Hotel Restaurant Seegarten Marina Spiez, we are looking for a committed, experienced and responsible personality as

Chef de Cuisine

Our establishment is located directly on Lake Thun in the bay of Spiez. The restaurant is open year-round, highly frequented in summer and features a large panoramic terrace. Together with our Sous Chef, you will lead a well-coordinated kitchen team and ensure that our guests enjoy dining with us from the first to the last plate.

We are looking for a personality who maintains an overview even when it gets lively, leads their team with professional competence and heart, and enjoys actively helping to shape a family-run business.

Your tasks:

• Operational and organizational leadership of the kitchen together with the existing kitchen management
• Ensuring smooth kitchen processes in the à-la-carte business as well as for banquets and events
• Co-design and further development of the culinary offering
• Responsibility for quality, presentation and careful handling of food
• Leadership, motivation and development of the employees in the kitchen
• Participation in the duty and holiday planning of the kitchen team
• Ensuring and further development of hygiene, quality and safety standards
• Ordering goods, inventory management, stocktaking as well as control of food costs
• Close and solution-oriented cooperation with the restaurant management and the directorate
• Active co-design of internal processes and optimizations

What you bring with you:

• Completed training as Koch/Köchin EFZ and several years of professional experience in a comparable function
• Experience in leading a kitchen team or a clear willingness to take on this responsibility
• Enjoyment of the à-la-carte business and the necessary calm as well as resilience for an intensive summer season
• Independent, structured and quality-conscious way of working
• Sense of responsibility, organizational talent and economic thinking
• Team spirit, direct communication and a respectful leadership style
• Willingness for flexible working hours, weekend and holiday shifts as well as split shifts

What awaits you:

• A responsible management function in a personally managed hotel and restaurant business
• A versatile everyday working life in a highly frequented restaurant directly on Lake Thun
• A motivated team as well as close cooperation with restaurant management and directorate
• Room for your own ideas, professional development and active co-design of the business
• A workplace with lake and mountain views in the bay of Spiez

Interested? Would you like to develop the Seegarten Marina further together with us and actively contribute your ideas? Then we look forward to getting to know you.