Sous Chef

Position Summary:

Provide exceptional quality food and service to all residents, guests and coworkers by performing essential duties effectively and efficiently.  Prepare nutritious, appetizing, and attractive meals to residents and guests.

Qualifications:

• Have Culinary Arts degree or equivalent experience.
• Have two years of experience in institutional or full-service restaurant cooking.
• Demonstrate ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to prepare varying quantities of set recipes by converting common measurements and equivalents.
• Ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules.
• Ability to collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to hear well amongst loud background noise.
• Meet state or provincial health related requirements.
• Maintain food handlers permit as required by state or provincial regulations.
• Maintain any certifications as required by state or provincial regulations.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Maintain resident, employee, and community information in strict confidence (with community management or other employees as necessary).
• Assist in the development, costing and execution of menus and menu items.
• Assist in interviewing and training kitchen personnel.
• Assist in reviewing work procedures and operational problems in order to determine ways to improve production, service, performance and safety.
• Monitor food preparation methods, portion sizes and garnishing and presentation of food.
• Test cooked food by tasting and smelling to ensure palatability and flavor conformity.
• Assist in developing and enforce scheduled cleaning, stocking, rotation and maintenance tasks.
• Estimate food consumption in order to anticipate amounts to be purchased.
• Schedule and receive food deliveries, checking contents to verify product quality and quantity.
• Train kitchen personnel in proper operating procedures and sanitation of all equipment, utensils and machinery.
• Enforce and insure cleanliness and organization of kitchen.
• Assist in planning of menus and food utilization based on anticipated number of guests, popularity and costs.
• Coordinate assignments of cooking personnel in order to ensure economical use of food and timely preparation.
• Inspect supplies, equipment and work areas to ensure conformance to established standards.
• Assist in monitoring compliance with health and fire regulations regarding food and beverage preparation and building maintenance in kitchen facilities.
• Adhere to all food-related safety and sanitation standards.
• Assure food, supplies, and appropriate personnel are available for meal planned.
• Supervise preparation of serving carts.             
• Adhere to proper procedures for covering, labeling, dating, and storing food in a timely manner.
• Complete temperature and leftover logs.
• Resolve resident-related food complaints as necessary.
• Supervise overall kitchen operations and staff in the absence of the Chef.
• Perform administrative duties including menu planning, ordering, receiving, invoice processing, inventory, end-of-the month report, and staffing.
• Keeps immediate supervisor promptly and fully informed of all problems or unusual matters of significance and takes prompt corrective action where necessary or suggest alternative courses of action.
• Participate in the Guest Chef Program.

 Other Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Adhere to all community policies and procedures.
• Adhere to dress/appearance code. (Changes in attire may be permitted for special circumstances as directed by your supervisor).
• Perform all assigned work for the agreed-upon wage, accepting no additional payment or gifts from residents, vendors, or others.
• Promote resident advocacy and demonstrate excellent customer service skills.
• Serve as a role model for other employees by displaying a responsible, cooperative, respectful, and positive attitude.
• Represent the community in the community at large in a professional, courteous, and friendly manner.
• Demonstrate ability to perform duties under time constraints and deadlines.
• Attend education and training classes as required by state or provincial regulations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Commitment To Equal Opportunity

Brightwater Senior Living is an equal-opportunity employer and strives to provide an environment in which human dignity prevails. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race, perceived race, color, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, creed, religion, age, marital status, family/parental status, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, source of income, receipt of public assistance, status as a veteran or current or future military status. Brightwater Senior Living does not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.