Title: Overnight Sous Chef

Reports to: Outlet Head Chef / Executive Sous Chef

Job Type: Full Time Seasonal (April through October)

Location: Inverness, Nova Scotia, B0E 1N0

The Cabot Collection

Cabot is a global developer and operator of world-class golf destinations with a growing portfolio of six Cabot properties and four Cabot-managed properties. The Cabot portfolio includes Cabot Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, Canada, Cabot Saint Lucia in the Caribbean, Cabot Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, Cabot Citrus Farms in the United States, Cabot Highlands in Scotland, and Cabot Bordeaux in France. With extensive expertise in golf and hospitality management, Cabot also oversees the operations of several premier golf courses through its Cabot-managed properties in the U.S., including: Cascata Golf Club and Serket Golf Club in Las Vegas, Nevada; Grand Bear Golf Club in Saucier, Mississippi; and Chariot Run Golf Club in Laconia, Indiana.

Cabot continues to cultivate a legacy of excellence, providing guests and homeowners with exclusive access to bespoke, destination-inspired experiences and a commitment to exceptional service across its luxury residential and boutique resort offerings.

Cabot Cape Breton

Located along the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and the picturesque town of Inverness, Cabot Cape Breton is an unrivalled destination offering one of the best resort experiences in Canada. Featuring 46 spectacular holes—including Cabot Links and Cabot Cliffs, two 18-hole layouts ranked among the world’s top 100 courses, and The Nest, an 11-hole par-3 course—Cabot Cape Breton offers a rare chance to experience golf as it was meant to be played: on firm, sandy turf, with the ocean breeze shaping every shot. With award-winning accommodations at Cabot Links Lodge, upscale Golf Villas, luxury homes, and exquisite dining options, Cabot Cape Breton is intended to excite and inspire at every turn.

If you join our team, you will live our values:

Confidence, Authenticity, Humility, Warmth

Position Overview

As Overnight Sous Chef at Cabot Cape Breton, you will play a key role in the culinary team, assisting the Executive Chef in food preparation and kitchen operations. Your responsibilities include supervising a small kitchen staff, ensuring the highest quality of product preparation, and maintaining food safety standards. With a focus on creativity and attention to detail, you will contribute to the development of innovative and visually appealing dishes, while also overseeing inventory management and ordering supplies. Your culinary expertise, leadership skills, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment will be crucial in maintaining the high culinary standards for which Cabot Cape Breton is renowned. As an Overnight Sous Chef, you will motivate the kitchen team, setting the stage for an incredible dining experience for our guests while upholding the resort’s reputation for exceptional cuisine.

You Will Thrive In This Role If You Enjoy

• Culinary Creativity: Find satisfaction in creating innovative and delicious dishes, experimenting with flavours, ingredients, and presentation techniques to craft unique and appealing menu items.
• Team Leadership: Take pleasure in leading and motivating kitchen staff, ensuring a harmonious and efficient working environment, providing guidance, training, and support to achieve culinary excellence.
• Attention to Detail: Enjoy maintaining high standards of food quality, plating, and presentation, ensuring that every dish leaving the kitchen meets the restaurant's standards and guests' expectations.
• Time Management: Embrace the fast-paced kitchen environment, effectively managing time, multitasking, and coordinating various cooking processes to ensure timely and efficient meal preparation.
• Adaptability: Thrive in a dynamic culinary environment, adapting to changing menus, seasonal ingredients, and guest preferences. Enjoy the challenge of creating diverse and delightful dishes under different circumstances.

Preferred Qualifications And Skills

• Five years’ culinary experience
• Demonstrated verbal and interpersonal communications skills
• Able to multi-task and solve problems under pressure
• Able to work long hours
• Able to maintain a positive attitude and attendance record at all times
• Highly responsible & reliable
• Ability to work cohesively as part of a team

Requirements Of The Role You Should Be Aware Of

• Based on the nature of our business and the service we provide to our guests; to work with us, you must consent to a criminal background check as a condition of employment and an additional criminal background check every two years.
• As a seasonal resort business, you can anticipate a schedule that will involve day, evening, night, and weekend work.
• Spending long hours walking, standing, and using knife skills.
• Frequently lifting and carrying up to 50 lbs.
• Occasional ascending and descending of stairs and ramps.
• Occasional kneeling, pushing, pulling, bending, twisting and lifting
• Working in a hot, intense kitchen producing a significant volume of food.
• As a leader, high pressure decision making may be involved in your day to day
• Ability to resolve employee concerns
• There may be interactions with patrons who are impaired

Our Benefits

• Access to learning & training opportunities to build your career.
• $ 10 green fees
• Complimentary Family Golf Round
• Complimentary daily hot lunch
• Friends and Family Rates for Golf and Lodging
• Discounts in our Retail Shops & Restaurants
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program
• Subsidized Team Housing, based on availability.
• Healthcare benefits for permanent and returning seasonal team members.