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Employment

Each season we strive to hire a team of positive, outgoing, and friendly people. Everyone agrees when they arrive to pay attention to the teaching that happens to become part of a team whose priority is to provide a memorable holiday for guests. All this, while living life inside gorgeous Algonquin Park and making many new friends! Kindness and respect for each other and good communication are keys to a great summer!

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Important Information

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  • Entry-level hourly wage is $20 - $23 per hour

  • Room and Board $80 per week - this is your only expense!  SAVE MONEY - to travel! get an apartment! pay back loans! This includes private accommodation, all meals, and utilities including basic internet.

  • Must be able to work until THANKSGIVING MONDAY in October! Start dates are flexible in May, June, or July. We hire a small number of “summer” only students.

  • You must live on-site. All accommodation is in renovated cabins, private rooms with private bathrooms. Staff eat in a common dining room. Enjoy canoeing, kayaking, swimming in the lake, hiking trails to see wildlife, fishing, and more, on your time off.  

  • We accept foreign applications that have legal permission to work in Canada. We are happy to discuss your work permit dates and help you with possible extensions.  

  • We follow all Ontario health guidelines.

  • Please be advised that although you may be interviewed for and may spend the majority of your time in one position, Arowhon staff work in all departments depending on business requirements. Everybody helps, including the managers!

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Positions

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Hourly positions, entry-level from $20 to $23 per hour, Room and Board charge of $80 per week, Please apply to adam@arowhonpines.ca

Office/Reservations Agents        

Dining Room Servers

Outside and Housekeeping staff    

Kitchen Porters        

Cook’s Assistants

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Professionally trained kitchen staff, please apply directly to chef@arowhonpines.ca

Chef de Partie Breakfast

Chef de Partie Butcher

Chef de Partie Cold Kitchen

Chef de Partie Tournant

Chef de Partie Saucier

Sous Chef

Head Baker

Line Cooks

NOTE: Salaries depend on experience, free Room and Board

 

Pastry Assistant

Cold Kitchen Assistant 

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Night Cleaner

NOTE: Experience on night shift required  

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There are salaried senior “career” positions available, salaries dependent on experience, and free Room and Board. Please apply directly to theresa@arowhonpines.ca.

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Maintenance (plumbing/electrical/handyperson)  — May 1 through November 15

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Chef de Cuisine

Terms of Employment: Full-time, 3-Year Contract

Location: Algonquin Park, April-December

Employment Address:

  • Arowhon Pines, Arowhon Road, Lease 1295 Algonquin Park, Ontario, P1H2G5

  • Winter months (January-March) will be placed at other exclusive resorts and/or taking food or management courses

Hours of Work: Average of 40 hours/week

Language: English

Benefits:

  • Eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or salary increases in accordance with company policy

  • Eligible for free food during seasonal operations

  • Eligible for room and board on site during seasonal operations

  • Eligible for emergency medical coverage

  • Eligible for reimbursement of travel expenses

  • Free use of all recreational facilities on site- canoes, kayaks, hiking, fishing, sailboats, etc…

Salary: $80,000 CAD per year

Contact: Please send resumes to resort@arowhonpines.ca  and include “Chef de Cuisine” in the email subject line.

Duties:

  • Ensuring Arowhon Pines recipes and systems are always followed by all staff

  • Creating and revising recipes as required

  • Liaising and cooperating with dining room manager, supervisors, and staff in a friendly, constructive and calm manner

  • Ensuring compliance with sanitation standards so that kitchen is always maintained in a clean and hygienic state

  • Serving fresh, tasty foods, breakfast, lunch and dinner daily to resort guests

  • Serving fresh, tasty foods, breakfast, lunch and dinner daily to staff

  • Hiring staff

  • Dealing with suppliers, pricing, delivery – accepting food, proper handling of food, storage and rotation

  • Opening and closing of the kitchen following the Kitchen Operations Manual guidelines

  • Revising menu in the winter, pre-season, including recipe creation and revision, recipe system and index maintenance

  • Daily supervising of service line-set up, cooking, assisting, teaching, troubleshooting as required

  • Expediting of food service as required

  • Training of Chef de Parties and assistants on service station set up, over 2 to 3 service sessions per day

  • Food preparation tasks as required to ensure service station is completely set up, including but not limited to: soup and sauce preparation, overseeing vegetable station preparations for quality control

  • Staff training and assessments, with kitchen manager, throughout the season

  • Overall controlling of kitchen operations on a day-to-day basis, following guidelines

  • Responsible for all foodstuff orders for business, with the kitchen manager

  • Establishing kitchen cleaning schedules, working with the kitchen manager to do so

  • Overall menu testing and maintaining food quality control systems

  • Compliance with and promoting health and safety workplace harassment policies

  • Duties during off-season winter months:

    • Assisting with hiring the team of 20 for the kitchen;

    • Contacting suppliers to obtain pricing and placing orders;

    • Menu testing and preparation for seasonal operations;

    • Recipe work

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Head Baker

Terms of Employment: Full-time / Seasonal (up to 32-week contract)

Location: Algonquin Park

Employment Address: Arowhon Pines, Arowhon Road, Lease 1295 Algonquin Park, Ontario, P1H2G5

Hours of Work: 40 hours/week

Language: English

Benefits:

  • Eligible for free food

  • Eligible for free private room and bathroom on site

  • Eligible for emergency medical coverage 

  • Eligible for reimbursement of travel expenses 

  • Free use of all recreational facilities on site – canoes, kayaks, hiking, fishing, sailboats, etc.

Salary: $1,400.00 - $1,750.00 CAD per week depending on experience

Contact: Please send resumes to resort@arowhonpines.ca and include “Head Baker” in the email subject line.

Duties:

  • Preparation and baking of all yeast products, on a weekly rotation

  • Maintaining par stocks including all breakfast pastries. Products include but are not limited to: Challah, multigrain bread, rye, baguettes, sour doughs, pizza doughs, lunch breads, muffins (both sweet and savory), croissants, pain au chocolate, danishes, turnovers, scones, etc…

  • Production and maintenance of par stocks and pastry products required by other kitchen departments, such as for box lunches – banana bread, date bars, brownies, and breads

  • Production and maintenance of par stocks of all gluten free bread products for specialty diets

  • Preparation of basic pastry preparations - such as muffin mixes, quick breads, tarts, pies, cakes, squares, and cookies, using recipes supplied by the company

  • Preparation and maintenance of stock of special dietary desserts, gluten free desserts, etc.  

  • Maintaining cleanliness and hygiene in Bakeshop to company standards, using the cleaning and sanitation methods provided by the company

  • Following all recipes, policies and procedures of Arowhon Pines always, regarding food handling, health and safety, and personal hygiene

  • Reporting to the pastry chef or executive chef for any issues or corrections needed in the Bakeshop recipes

  • Maintaining par stocks of baked goods needed by other departments, as identified on the “Bakeshop menu board,” including but not limited to: Box lunch brownies, trail bars, banana bread, puff pastry, English muffins, baguettes, etc., in amounts to suit the needs of the business

  • Reporting to the pastry chef, executive chef or chef de cuisine for any product needs, recipe adjustments needed, or any issues experienced in the day-to-day operation

  • Helping with lunch, dinner and buffet dessert preparation as instructed by Pastry Chef.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of bread baking and pastry experience  

  • Completion of secondary school is required

  • Completion of a college program for bakers or with an equivalent culinary focus is required

  • Food safety certified

  • WHMIS certified

  • Experience working in a remote location is of the utmost importance

  • Ability to work as part of a team

  • Experience in a fast-paced quality establishment where foods are made from scratch

  • Ability to communicate in English

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