The posting
Job Summary:
The Senior Sous Chef – Night Shift oversees nightly culinary production, ensuring timely output in accordance with approved recipes, quality standards, food safety requirements and production schedules. The role leads the night-shift team, maintains food quality and operational efficiency, minimises wastage, ensures hygiene, halal and safety compliance, and facilitates smooth shift handovers.
Key Responsibilities
A. Culinary Production and Operations
- Oversee night-shift production according to approved plans and schedules.
- Ensure food preparation meets standard recipes, specifications, portion sizes and quality standards.
- Monitor production output, yield and deadlines.
- Ensure proper food handling, cooling, storage and transfer.
- Resolve production issues and coordinate with relevant departments on ingredient, raw material and packaging requirements.
B. Team Leadership and Supervision
- Supervise, guide and motivate night-shift culinary staff.
- Allocate duties and manpower to meet production needs.
- Monitor attendance, discipline and work performance.
- Train staff on recipes, SOPs, hygiene and safety.
- Report staffing and training needs to management.
C. Food Quality and Consistency
- Maintain consistent taste, appearance, portion size and product quality.
- Inspect ingredients, work-in-progress and finished products.
- Ensure compliance with approved recipes and quality standards.
- Investigate quality issues and implement corrective actions.
D. Food Safety, Hygiene and Halal Compliance
- Ensure compliance with food safety, hygiene, sanitation and halal requirements.
- Monitor cooking, cooling, storage and temperature controls.
- Prevent cross-contamination and ensure proper allergen handling.
- Maintain cleanliness of equipment and production areas.
- Maintain required records and report food safety incidents or non-compliance.
E. Inventory and Cost Control
- Monitor ingredient usage, stock rotation (FIFO/FEFO) and storage.
- Minimise wastage, spoilage and overproduction.
- Ensure portion control and production yield targets.
- Report stock shortages, damaged goods and discrepancies.
- Maintain proper labelling and traceability of ingredients and finished products.
F. Equipment and Workplace Safety
- Ensure safe operation and proper maintenance of kitchen equipment.
- Maintain a clean, organised and safe workplace.
- Ensure staff comply with safety procedures and PPE requirements.
- Report hazards, accidents and equipment defects promptly.
G. Production Reporting and Shift Handover
- Maintain accurate production, wastage, ingredient usage, quality and manpower records.
- Submit night-shift production reports to management.
- Ensure proper handover of outstanding tasks and operational issues.
- Coordinate with QA, Warehouse, Maintenance and other departments.
- Recommend improvements to production efficiency, quality and cost control.
Requirements
- Diploma or Certificate in Culinary Arts, Food Production, or an equivalent qualification is preferred.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in a commercial kitchen, central kitchen, food manufacturing facility or large-scale food production environment.
- Prior experience in a supervisory or senior culinary position is required.
- Experience in Ready-to-Eat (R2E), chilled, frozen or batch food production will be an advantage.
- Knowledge of food safety, hygiene, temperature control, sanitation and halal compliance requirements.
- Strong leadership, communication, planning and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage production targets, multiple tasks and a team in a fast-paced environment.
- Able to work independently during night shifts and make sound operational decisions.
- Willingness to work night shifts, weekends and public holidays according to operational requirements.



