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Executive Chef- Exclusive Private School

SAGE Dining Services
Jacksonville, FL Full Time
POSTED ON 2/18/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/7/2025

Are you an experienced chef with a passion for scratch cooking and fostering a vibrant community? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment and possess incredible client-facing skills? If so, we’d love to meet you!

SAGE Dining Services® is seeking a highly motivated and dedicated Executive Chef to help lead and manage the dining operation for a private school serving grades 6-12 with an hourly team of 15 and you will also be part of the culinary team. In this role, you will oversee all aspects of food service, from menu planning and preparation to team management and client relations. We pride ourselves on providing high-quality, scratch-made meals in a warm, welcoming environment that reflects our strong school community. Not only do we serve lunch daily with many different concepts and choices for our community, but we also have 2-5 catering events per week.

At SAGE, we create exceptional dining experiences, not only at special catering events but at every meal. We are looking for a director who shares our passion for culinary excellence and possesses a customer service mindset to exceed the expectations of the community we serve.

Our clients genuinely value what we do, making the experience incredibly rewarding. It’s a challenge, but if you love working with real food, local vendors, and fellow food enthusiasts, you’ve come to the right company!

If you want to join a team that creates scratch menus, offers meaningful career opportunities in food service (we prefer to promote from within), provides multi-level leadership invested in your career growth, and makes food service enjoyable, apply today!

This is a salaried, year-round position as we operate year-round with summer programs.

Pay Type :

75,000 - $85,000 Salary

Time Commitment : Full Time

What you'll get :

  • Competitive salary and benefits.
  • Collaborative environment.
  • Emphasis on training and development.
  • Opportunities for advancement.
  • Mission based company with values you trust.
  • Appreciative community.
  • Tremendous amount of resources and tools at your fingertips.

What you'll do :

  • Plan cycle menus and lead daily production (hands on).
  • Enforce safety protocols and lead by example.
  • Deliver an outstanding example of customer service to your team and to the community we serve.
  • Manage ordering and inventory.
  • Deliver incredible catering events rivaling 5 star restaurants.
  • Participate in the interviewing, hiring, training and ongoing mentoring of the team.
  • Participate in general location management with the Food Service management team.
  • What you'll need :

  • Customer service skills
  • High end catering and high-volume banquet experience.
  • Substantial culinary knowledge : trends, techniques, and processes.
  • Menu planning and production experience.
  • Minimum five years culinary experience.
  • Minimum five years managing others in the kitchen.
  • Ability to lead, not manage others and to mentor the team.
  • Desire to mentor the team and lift others to continue a culture of extreme ownership.
  • Happy disposition, both for community and team interactions.
  • Awesome references and solid resume.
  • Current ServSafe® certification, as well as local health department certification, where required.
  • Salary : $75,000 - $85,000

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