Sous Chef

Job description:

Edison House is locally owned and has created a professional, comfortable, and safe environment for the Edison House community. The kitchen is headed up by Executive Chef Buzz Willey who was the owner and Executive Chef of Pallet, a downtown SLC staple for over 10 years. Edison House proudly sources its produce and meats from local distributors and continuously fosters a partnership with the community in which it operates.

We want to provide a professional kitchen set in a comfortable environment. Our culture is built from the top down we are an employee first organization, we show respect and understand our community through great communication and leadership. The Exec. Sous and Jr. Sous Chef's will have positive communication and a strong rapport with the management team. The Exec. Sous and Jr. Sous Chef's will be able to convey and push our kitchen community to reach our goals in a positive productive manner. The Exec. Sous and Jr. Sous Chef's will have a leadership style that is their own, while understanding the Edison House standards. By demonstrating strong leadership, the Exec. Sous and Jr. Sous Chef's will keep our kitchen community culture in line with our overall culture goals.

Responsibilities

• Helps maintain culture goals.
• Provides training and professional development with all kitchen staff
• Attends service lineups and ensures other kitchen members attend lineups
• Assists and works closely with Executive Chef with new menu items and menu development
• Assists Exec. Chef with scheduling, ordering, inventory, overseeing kitchen codes of conduct
• Assists Exec. Chef in meeting financial targets while achieving food quality and service objectives
• Motivates and develops staff including cross training and promotion of personnel
• Undertakes special projects assigned by Executive Chef, General Manager, or Food and Bev director
• Ability to operate all operations in absent of Exec. Chef while maintaining standards
• Supervises kitchen community to ensure smooth service expectations
• Supervises and preforms continuous training with the kitchen community
• Assists with controlling maintenance with all kitchen equipment

Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of food products, standard recipes, and specific food preparation
• Must be available to work a varied schedule including days, nights, weekends and holidays
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Chef position of a high-volume fine dining establishment, or multi-venue hotel or resort
• Mature, disciplined, committed, and flexible team member
• Ability to understand and preform well with producing documents, spreadsheets, payroll management, and point of sales systems
• Ability to oversee all functions as necessary to ensure all food is at Edison House standards
• Ability to manage ordering that maintains financial goals along with meeting the requirements of proper amounts of product required for all outlets
• Ability to manage and create scheduling that maintains efficiency and Edison House standards
• Oversee use of equipment to ensure equipment is being used properly and safely, and ability to provide training to staff as needed
• Ideal candidate for the position will have a progressive resume and aspirations of becoming an Executive Chef

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Shift:

• 10 hour shift
• 8 hour shift

Supplemental Pay:

• Performance bonus
• Yearly bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Salt Lake City, UT 84101: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

Experience:

• Culinary experience: 5 years (Preferred)
• Cooking: 4 years (Preferred)