Searching for Cooks & Chefs

NCS is looking for customer focused team players – Cooks & Chefs with experience working in large volume catering and/or large hotel environments for our expanding business.

There are also positions available for Supervisors, so if you have the skills to manage a team to produce meals for 1000+ residents on time and on budget – please note the additional criteria below.

Cooks and Chefs requirements:

• Catering trade certificate from a recognized training institution;
• Minimum of 2-5 years’ post apprenticeship qualification;
• Knowledge of ISO9000 quality management and HACCP food safety systems;
• Understanding of food costs and meal production;
• Ability to compile menus and format recipes;
• Excellent communication skills and customer focus;
• Be able to work to strict deadlines and under pressure;
• Flexibility to work at remote locations and on FIFO arrangements;
• Experience in a similar role is an advantage.

To be considered for a Supervisor position:

• Ability to monitor teams for presentation, safety and hygiene to ISO9000 and HACCP standards;
• Management of food costs, meal production and budgets;
• Liaise with supply and service departments;
• Manage development of local staff and work experience programs.
• An ability to train team members and oversee apprentices;
• A current class 6 drivers license an advantage;
• Computer literacy essential

If you are willing to commit to the long term future of this progressive company then please send your applications by 30 April to:

The HR Manager
NCS Holdings Ltd

PO Box 707
Port Moresby

OR: Send us an email via the Contact Us page.

NCS Contribution to Industry Training and Certification

NCS Project Manager Allan Atava was selected, along with other industry leaders, to participate in a workshop to review and validate the structure of the National Qualifying Framework (NQF) for Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET). This is a training package in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry for all registered training institutes in PNG. Once approved, all institutes will use this syllabus as a training guide.

The training package is standardised to suit all Tourism Operations, Catering & Hospitality firms in the country and offers courses for beginners and basic operative skills through to the National Advanced Diploma.

NATTB will also conduct training and issuing qualification for Assessors, for which NCS will nominate key personnel to attend.

NCS Apprentices become Chefs

NCS Apprentices from Kainantu, PNGDF, Lihir and Hidden Valley were in Lae recently to complete their Extension Two studies in Hospitality and Tourism. On successfully completing this block of theory and practical assessments they will be fully qualified Chefs. We wish them all the best with their exams.

Apprentices expressed their appreciation for NCS’s support to attend the Cookery Extension Course as part of the Apprenticeship Training Program.

“This program has enabled us to become skilled in the trade as Chefs and meet the demand of the growing hospitality industry in PNG.” said one participant. “Thank you for giving us the opportunity to realise our dreams of becoming fully qualified professionals”.

“I would not have come this far without your help and support. I hope you will continue to provide the same support you’ve given me to other upcoming Apprentices” said another participant.

NCS Raibus signed up their first four apprentices from the Ramu Nickel site at Karumbukari and there will be four more from the Basamuk site by Christmas.

Training in 2010 will be conducted in NCS’s new training centre on Lihir Island.

Achieving dreams through the Ginigoada program

A three-month training program with NCS PNGDF is helping Papua New Guineans to realise their dream of a career in hospitality.

The Ginigoada program is sponsored by Ausaid as part of the Yumi Lukautim Project for disadvantaged people.

Graduate Mahura Kauka, has just gained an apprentice chef position with NCS, and is one of the first apprentices to come from the Ginigoada program.

“I have a job now and my own money – I can help support my family,” Kauka said.

“I want to become a head chef. You have to work hard to become someone, you have to start at the bottom and work up. I am thankful for the opportunity”.

Mahura is one of three new apprentices who signed their contracts on Thursday, 29^th January 2009, witnessed by NATTB representative, Mr John Maraga and NCS PNGDF Project Manager, Mick Pye and Administration Manager, Ms Alu Kila.

Fellow new apprentices Kelly Andrew and David Mokara were also selected from a total of 18 prospective employees who completed the training program. All three apprentices said they were excited, and looking forward to learning as much as possible to achieve their dream.
At the contract signing ceremony, Mr Maraga spoke of commitment and support between the new apprentices and their employer. Each apprentice was issued with a set of knives as the tools of their selected trade.

Graduates Vari Obaha and Vanama Kei also gained positions as Data Entry Clerk and Kitchen hand, respectively.

NCS is proud of our involvement with the program, which is delivering skilled professionals back to their communities and valued new people to NCS.

Our sincere congratulations and a very warm welcome to our new apprentices.

Nothing But the best for Governor General

It’s not every day that you get the honour of catering for a digitary as important as Australia’s Governer General, so it was with much excitement that NCS – PNGDF prepared for the BIG arrival of His Excellency, Major General Michael Jeffery, on his last state visit to PNG.

THe offical visit took place at Taurama Barracks, where the Governer General was stationed as a Major in the Australian Army, commmanding PNG Soldiers.

An event such as this takes considerable planning. The team worked like clockwork arranging menus, wine lists, seating plans, right down to the flowers that were on the tables.

With the menu set and agreed upon, the chefs, apprentices and kitchen hands all rolled up their sleeves to ensure that function was one the Vice Regal couple would always remember.

For NCS Apprentice Chef, Eliza Ani, it was an opportunity of a lifetime. Providing advice on the buffet menu, she said she was thrilled to be able to assist at such a special event.

Gadona September 2008