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Job Ref: 13736 Branch: Apex City Quay Hotel & Spa- Dundee Location: Apex City Quay Hotel and Spa , Dundee Salary/Benefits: competitive salary plus excellent company benefits & perks Contract type: Permanent Hours: Full Time Hours per week: 40 Posted date: 09/11/2026 Closing date: 21/12/2026 Why join Apex Hotels? You'll be welcomed into Apex Hotels with genuine warmth as you join us as a Banqueting Chef in Dundee . From your very first day, you'll be part of a team that truly cares, where people feel valued, included, and connected. We love individuality - it's what brings the spark, the curiosity, and the human touch to every interaction. Role Overview: This is a great time to join our team as a Banqueting Chef, you will spearhead the culinary experience, be skilled and innovative and have the opportunity to showcase your creativity, leadership skills, and culinary talents to deliver exceptional banqueting experiences for our guests. You will work closely with our supply chain partners, in house centralised services, and on property kitchen and front of teams to continue developing, researching, and implementing appropriate efficiency and quality changes across all outlets. As a Banqueting Chef, you will ensure the smooth running of the Hotel Kitchen Banqueting teams you are assigned and assume full accountability in the absence of the Head Chef, acting in their capacity, and as directed by Management. Main Responsibilities: • Lead and develop the Banqueting Kitchen team through teamwork, skill, initiative and communication and assume a leadership role in support of the Head Chef during all periods of service., • To treat all clients and colleagues in a polite and courteous manner at all times. To give full co-operation to any client or colleague requiring assistance in a prompt, caring and helpful manner., • Coaching, training and supporting all Chefs and apprentices to provide consistently high standards, while continually looking to improve. You'll have the talent to build, develop and motivate a team to deliver excellent levels of customer care., • Assist with the recruitment and selection of Banqueting Kitchen staff, following the Company Recruitment and selection Process., • Responsible for ensuring Banqueting kitchen wage costs are controlled in line with business levels through weekly forecasting., • To be fully conversant with the food gross profit achieved and assist the Head Chef in achieving the budgeted food G.P. in Banqueting, • Ensure that the food hygiene regulations are followed at all times ensuring that the food is stored and rotated on a daily basis to eliminate wastage., • Assist with menu planning and creation within the Banqueting kitchen, • Responsible for the people management aspects of the role, including managing attendance, performance, H&S, completing reviews, 1-2-1's, annual appraisals and training. About you: As a Banqueting Chef, we ask that you take pride in your work and have a willingness to learn. You will have a real passion for food, and you will have excellent attention to detail in order to provide consistent standards. This is a vital role in the function of the hotel and ultimately one that they will remember the most. You will be great at multi-tasking, you will be efficient at solving all guest enquiries and requests with ease. We love to welcome people with different experiences and from different places into our Apex family. We want to ensure you get the best experience from the role you begin your journey with us in. To excel within this role, you will have: • Experience as a Senior Chef de Partie / Junior Sous Chef, • Food Hygiene Certificate and good awareness of Health and Safety in the work place, • Can demonstrate experience of contributing towards menu development and implementation and an awareness of current food trends, • Can demonstrate experience of assisting with cost accounting / portion and stock control and also minimising waste, • Can demonstrate experience of assisting with conducting monthly performance reviews / appraisals and recruitment, • Competent at writing professional letters and emails, compiling reports and data analysis, • Can demonstrate the ability to conduct individual and group training sessions with staff on key skills required within their job role., • The ability to lead and motivate a team and conduct coaching sessions with staff, to increase their performance or confidence and the ability to conduct performance management sessions to improve the performance of staff members where falling below standards You will meet great people, have fun at work, develop new friendships, learn new skills, and of course you will also receive a competitive rate of pay and a generous range of employee benefits which includes: • 29 days holiday, • Training and development from day one, • Employee events and celebrations, • Inhouse company interactive employee communication APP, • Entry to our state-of-the-art gym and pools, • Healthy meals to enjoy while you're working., • Access to an external Employee Assistance Programme, • Financial Wellbeing App, allowing you the flexibility to get paid earlier than your normal monthly pay date., • £200 referral bonus when your friends or family join the team., • Following your first successful 3 months, you'll also receive ...... Access to our discounts and wellbeing platform "Treat Yourself Here", unlocking savings and experiences for you and your family. • Involvement in our employee recognition schemes, • Long service recognition, • Probation pass and annual anniversary complimentary guest experience overnight stay and dinner for two, • 50% discount in our restaurants, • Cycle to Work Scheme, • Discounted room rates for employees, friends, and family, • Spa treatments and product discounts, • Life Assurance cover Come and join our team, guided by our values of trust, friendliness, teamwork, and passion - the good stuff that makes hospitality feel effortless. Here, you'll shine in your own way, creating joyful moments that lift the everyday. This role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. However, candidates who were granted Skilled Worker status prior to 22 July 2025 who have had continuous permission may still qualify for sponsorship. If you are interested, click apply. We look forward to hearing from you! About the Apex City Quay Hotel and Spa The Apex City Quay Hotel & Spa has award-winning spa facilities, a restaurant, bar and meeting rooms. It's a ten-minute stroll from RRS Discovery, Caird Hall and high-street shops. The hotel has 151 bedrooms, features ample natural light through floor to ceiling windows and boasts a fantastic view of City Quay or river Tay. The Quayside Bar & Grill overlooks Dundee City Quay.