National cook

**Company description**
About Al-Futtaim Private Company LLC**

No two days are the same at Al-Futtaim, no matter what role you have. Our work is driven by the desire to make a difference and to have a meaningful impact with the goal of enriching everyday lives_._ Take our engaging and supportive work environment and couple it with a company culture that recognises and rewards quality performance, and what do you get? The chance to push the limits every single day.

As a humble family business that started on the banks of the Dubai Creek in the 1930s, Al-Futtaim has expanded to a presence in 31 countries, a portfolio of over 200 companies, and 42,000 employees. You’ll find us in industries ranging from automotive and retail, to finance and real estate, and connecting people with international names like Lexus, Ikea, and Adidas. Our team is proudly multicultural and multinational because that kind of diverse representation gives us the global mindset to grow and impact the people, markets, and trends around us.

**About Al-Futtaim IKEA**

GROWING TOGETHER...

We are a values-driven company with a passion for life at home. Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people.

Al-Futtaim IKEA holds the franchise rights for IKEA in Egypt, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

**Job description**
ROLE PURPOSE**:
To assist the cooks in the daily food production in a location ensuring food safety rules and regulations are followed to ensure safe preparation of meals.
**KEY ROLE SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES**:

- Ensure our guests are always in focus and strive to make them smile. Meet and serve our guests showing empathy and care. Willing to listen and support them with an attitude based on the IKEA values.
- Lead by example and a good ambassador for the IKEA store in all contact with our guests, and give them a good reason to return again and again.
- Always look at our store through the eyes of our customers. Have a daily dialogue with our guests to get continuous feedback about their experiences and to learn more about their needs and wants, then act based on their input.
- Responsibility of coordinating the area of food safety in the store.
- Ensure that IKEA Food Safety programs are implemented and followed in the store..
- Build relationships with relevant national and local authorities, auditors and suppliers.
- Be well updated on current and upcoming national legislation on food safety.
- Ensure that all IKEA FOOD co-workers are familiar with CASY (incident reporting).
- Ensure that the IKEA FOOD Team knows how to act if an incident occurs through the Emergency Management Team.
- Actively work with the Chef to increase his knowledge and expertise in all areas of production
- Ensure the correct use of equipment at all times and reports breakdown or failure to the Chef
- Attend and participates in training sessions as required
- Work actively to make the IKEA store successful and high performing, today and tomorrow by attracting visitors, achieving sales growth and reasonable profitability, ensuring the satisfaction of guests and co-workers, and excellent operational performance as measured through our defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
- Ensure that systems and methods stated in IKEA Concept Documentation are implemented in the Restaurant, Swedish food market, Bistro and co-worker restaurant.
- Ensure all ingredients are available from stores and are of good quality to enable him to produce food in a timely manner.
- Ensure all food produced is of high quality by following standard recipes and using correct ingredients.
- Follow all food safety rules and regulations to ensure the safe production and storage of food and that any required exposure of these items to unacceptable temperature and humidity levels is minimized
- Ensure work station is kept clean as per the cleaning schedules
- Responsible for cooking/preparing a part of the food production schedule as allocated by the Chef
- Direct the preparation, cooking and presentation of culinary dishes; enforcing strict health and hygiene standards in the kitchen and troubleshooting any problem that may arise in the section assigned to
- Confidently work with the food handling process.
- Insure all equipment and machineries are working according to highest standards, and securing Preventive maintenance is done frequently and in place.
- Perform other related functions that may be assigned from time to time.
**PERSON SPECIFIC**:
**General retailing experience**:

- Previous service environment experience, ideally sales or hospitality - Minimum of 2 years.
- Secondary Degree
- Must have an interest and knowledge of culinary or food service industry
- Must have a strong customer focus
- Must have the ability to work in a high-volume, fast-paced, and constantly changing retail environment
- Must have multitasking capabilities
- Must be computer literate
**Communication skills**:

- Must have excellent communication and interpersonal sk