Restaurant Manager

We are seeking a restaurant manager for our client Wilderness Hotel Muotka. This role leads the restaurant's daily operations, builds a functional multicultural team, and ensures our guests receive the service Muotka is known for. You will be hands-on, collaborating with the kitchen, reception, and other hotel departments to ensure smooth operations throughout the evening. The shift starts with a briefing of the day, reviewing guest numbers and schedules, staffing, and special requests, and ensuring everything is in place for the evening. In winter, breakfast, lunch, and dinner are served buffet-style. Before the dinner, you review the evening flow with the team, assign positions, and ensure everyone knows their role. You will stay in close touch with the kitchen, reception, and other hotel departments so the whole operation works seamlessly. As restaurant manager you are part of the floor team, serving guests and ensuring the service runs smoothly. At the end of the evening you often handle settlements and necessary reporting. Tasks include managing daily restaurant operations, leading a multicultural team, ensuring customer experience and service quality, beverage orders, inventory management, and reporting, close cooperation with kitchen and other hotel departments, and involvement in daily operational work. Requirements include experience in restaurant supervisory roles, ability to lead people with motivation and by example, strong organizational and prioritization skills, calmness in busy times, fluency in Finnish and English, and good communication and collaboration skills. We offer authentic Lapland winter experiences, staff housing and Wilderness Hotels employment benefits; opportunities to continue in winter and beyond at other Wilderness Hotels locations. Salary starts at 3000 €/month plus allowances; final salary depends on experience and education. Employment starts October 2026 (by mid-October at latest), fixed-term until 4.4.2027 with potential for permanent contract. A time-bank system exists; working hours vary seasonally, and extra hours earned can be taken as time off later. How to apply: submit your application as soon as possible; interviews begin during the application period and the position is filled when a suitable candidate is found.