Role:                                                              Project Manager

Reporting to:                                                 Regional Manager

Business Area:                                              All Provinces 

Employment Contract:                                  Linked to commercial contract

The Main Purpose of the job

The successful applicant will be responsible for managing the assigned unit in accordance with sector strategy, contract specifications, and statutory regulations. The candidate would implement the food production process, a great quality food service for clients and manage the execution of creative functions.

Education and Experience required:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in food and beverage services or hospitality or culinary arts is compuls
• Experience in hospitals is compulsory
• Project Management experience in a hospitality/catering industry would be an advantage
• Implementation of change programmes, unit mobilization experience is advantageous
• Experience of working within brand guidelines to deliver results
• Experience in costing, budgets, forecasts and invoicing is advantageous
• Proven experience in managing successful departments/teams
• Driver’s License is required

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies:

• Knowledge of the catering environment ranging from fine dining to restaurant dining including patient feeding in hospital environment
• Knowledge of South African and industry-specific laws
• Customer service skills
• Management skills
• Communication skills
• Ability to arrange exceptional functions
• Ability to balance the budget and save on soft costs
• Ability to draft and extract reports

Key areas of responsibility:

• Managing daily operations of the assigned unit in accordance with sector strategy, contract specifications, and statutory regulations
• Implementation of the food production process
• Provide great quality service to clients
• Manage the execution of creative functions
• Menu planning, standardisation, adoption and costing
• Monitor the kitchen to ensure the cooks are using standardized recipes and quality of food is of the highest standard
• Daily bookkeeping procedures on worksmart – capturing of issues, sales, stock, banking’s etc.
• Managing the Food GP’s as per the budgeted targets
• Cash Handling – weekly banking to be balanced for pick up for G4S
• Managing the unit’s budgets to ensure that the budgeted targets are met monthly
• Implementation of minimum & maximum stock levels to controls stock days
• Electronic Meal ordering system to be fully functional and implemented within the unit
• Managing the HSE daily to ensure all records are up to date
• Managing People (i.e. staffing – workforce planning, payroll administration, leave management, performance management)
• Managing Customer Experience (through surveys and using data to improve the service offering)

Closing Date:

Empact Group is committed to Employment Equity in line with legislation and will give first preference to candidates as per Equity requirements.

By applying for a role within Empact Group (Proprietary) Limited, all Personal Information that you provide to the Company will be held and/ or stored securely for the purpose of recruitment. Your Personal Information will be stored electronically in a database. Where appropriate, some information may be retained in hard copy. In either event, storage will be secure and audited regularly regarding the safety and security of the information in accordance with the Protection of Personal Information Act, 4 of 2013 (“POPI”).

Please consider your application unsuccessful should you not receive communication within 2 weeks from the closing date.

Kindly note that your CV will be entered as a Talent Pool and that we may contact you for future opportunities.