JOB DETAILS:

JOB PURPOSE:

Responsible for planning, preparing, and cooking meals for crew members and passengers aboard a ship. This includes managing the kitchen inventory, ensuring food safety standards are maintained, and occasionally catering for special dietary requirements and events.

Duties and responsibilities

• • Plan and prepare daily meals for crew, ensuring dietary requirements are met.
  • Manage all aspects of kitchen operations including inventory, equipment, and cleanliness
  • Ensure strict adherence to maritime food safety and sanitation standards.
  • Work closely with the catering staff and management to order food supplies.
  • Handle food budgeting, ensuring cost-effective operations.
  • Continuously improve and innovate on menu items based on crew feedback and seasonal availability of ingredients.
  • Provide special dietary meals as required by crew members.

Qualifications and Experience

• Must have professional culinary training or equivalent experience.
• Proven work experience as a cook or chef, preferably in the maritime industry.
• Familiarity with various cooking methods, ingredients, and procedures.
• Strong knowledge of sanitation regulations and safety standards.
• Excellent time management and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work under pressure in confined spaces for extended periods.
• Valid health and food handling certificates.

Competences

• Ability to work effectively with other officers and crew members and foster teamwork
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential for interacting with crew, providing instructions, and resolving issues
• Planning, organizing and coordinating.
• Firefighting skills.
• Basic First Aid

All suitable, qualified and interested candidates with the relevant qualifications and experience should send their application letters, curriculum vitae and copies of academic certificates, Transcripts, National Identity Card, appointment letters to the current job, together
with one (1) recent passport photograph. Merge all your
documents and send them in one attachment in word or PDF format not exceeding 2MBs.
OR
Address to the Managing Director, Uganda Railway Corporation and hand deliver to URC
headquarters. The closing date of receiving applications is Friday 31st October, 2025 at
3:00pm.
NOTE

1. Only successful candidates will be contacted.
2. Any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.
3. Beware of fraudstars.