What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sous Chef position at Cardinal Senior Living LLC?
General Summary:
The Sous Chef is responsible for the proper preparation of the planned meal in the absence of the Executive Chef and assists in the supervision of the employees.
Primary Job Duties/Requirements:
Essential Functions:
- Clarifies and organizes all evening paperwork and ensures next day’s production schedule is posted.
- Assists the kitchen staff in all aspects of daily operation
- Informs the Executive Chef of all activities and operational problems, makes suggestions for corrective action and improvement where required.
- Assists with daily shift change walk-throughs of kitchen staff.
- Ensures that each plate leaving the kitchen is of our highest quality standards, ensuring proper presentation, portioning, and temperature standards.
- Responsible for the direction of the kitchen when Executive Chef is absent.
- Assists with creation, planning, costing, and execution of menus, daily features, special events and holidays.
- Assists with food orders, production sheets, and related materials and logbooks.
- Assists Executive chef in executing all catered operations and special functions.
Other Duties:
- Assists in maintaining a high level of customer service for our all our residents and their guests.
- Maintains appearance, cleanliness, and service of facility at or above Health Department standards through routine, daily cleaning procedures.
- Assists in maintaining daily, weekly, and monthly statistical information.
- Uses time, material, and equipment properly to eliminate waste and control expense.
- Maintains good working relations with coworkers and fosters an environment of unity, team effort, group pride, teamwork, and harmony.
- Attends in-service training and education sessions as required.
- Performs specific work duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Basic Requirements:
1. Ability to understand and follow instructions in English and communicate effectively and perform simple arithmetic. Ability to understand measurements and conversions.
- Two to three years experience in a hotel, restaurant, or club with fine dining preferred.
- Culinary education and supervisory background desirable.
- Ability to plan and organize work, to interpret instructions, recipes, specifications and standards.
- Knowledge of kitchen equipment operations and maintenance. Some knowledge of nutrition and diet. Health Care experience desirable.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS/WORKING CONDITIONS:
Must be able to stand or walk for up to 8 hours per day. Must be able to bend, stoop, and stretch frequently throughout the day. Moderate to heavy physical effort needed infrequently. Manual dexterity for preparing food. Ability to use standard industrial kitchen appliances required. Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs. independently. May be exposed to extreme temperatures (freezers and stoves-range burners) for short periods of time. May be exposed to industrial cleaning chemicals. Must be able to see, hear, and communicate with others.
Core Values
At Tanger Culinary Services, our mission is to provide our residents with the care, compassion, dignity, and respect they deserve. We must anticipate their needs, and conduct ourselves with the highest standards of professionalism, in order to meet that goal. We will maintain a resident centered environment for all those entrusted to our care.