Executive Chef - Multi Unit Experience

Job Description

KP Recruiting Group is a consulting firm that provides leadership and exceptional talent to some of the world’s leading companies. Headquartered in the Midwest, KP Recruiting Group has successfully completed countless engagements across the United States. We represent clients in all industries and all sizes. Our mission is to provide exceptional client and candidate experiences in order to get the best possible results. On behalf of our client, we are excited to present the following confidential role. We look forward to hearing from you and discussing the opportunity!

**This is a full time permanent role**

The Role:

The Executive Chef will oversee and manage culinary operations to meet production, presentation, and service standards. Applies culinary techniques to food preparation and manages the final presentation and service of food. The Executive Chef is a management position overseeing chef managers as well as hourly culinary staff, responsible for developing and executing culinary solutions to meet customer needs and tastes. Offers a wide variety of culinary solutions to meet customer and client needs and tastes.

Job Duties:

Ensures proper culinary standards and techniques are in place for preparation of food items, including production, presentation, and service standards

Manages a culinary team, including chef managers and hourly staff, to ensure quality in final presentation of food

Ensures culinary production appropriately connects to the Executional Framework

Train and manage culinary and kitchen employees to use best practice food production techniques

Coach employees by creating a shared understanding about what needs to be achieved and how it is to be achieved

Reward and recognize employees

Plan and execute team meetings and daily huddles

Complete and maintain all staff records including training records, shift opening/closing checklists and performance data

Develop and maintain effective client and guest rapport for mutually beneficial business relationships

Interact directly with guests daily

Aggregate and communicate regional culinary and ingredient trends

Responsible for delivering food and labor targets

Consistent focus on margin improvement understanding performance metrics, data, order, and inventory trends

Ensure efficient execution and delivery of all culinary products in line with the daily menu

Maintain integrity of the standard food offer responsible for always maintaining food quality and safety of items

Full compliance with Operational Excellence fundamentals: managing waste, standard menus, recipes and ingredients through managing customer driven menus and labor standards

Understand end to end supply chain and procurement process and systems, ensuring only authorized suppliers are used

Full knowledge and implementation of the Food Framework

Ensure accuracy of estimated food consumption for appropriate requisitions and/or food purchase

Ensure proper equipment operation and maintenance

Ensure compliance with SAFE food and Quality Assurance standards, occupational and environmental safety policies in all culinary and kitchen operations

Comply with all applicable policies, rules and regulations, including but not limited to those relating to safety, health, wage and hour

Requirements

Requires at least 4 years of culinary experience

At least 2 years in a management role preferred

Requires a culinary degree or equivalent experience

Ability to multi-task

Ability to simplify the agenda for the team

Requires advanced knowledge of the principles and practices within the food profession.

This includes experiential knowledge required for management of people and/or problems.

Requires oral, reading, and written communication skills

Benefits

Medical/Dental/Vision/Prescription

Generous Vacation Policy

401k with Roth option & 8% Company Match

Profit Sharing

Annual Bonus Potential

9 Paid Holidays (8 Static and 1 Floating)

Tuition Reimbursement Program

Employee Assistance Program

Company Paid Life Insurance

Short- & Long-Term Disability

Annual Merit Raises

Opportunities for Internal Mobility

Professional Development Opportunities

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