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Chef or Sous Chef Japanese Cuisine experience
Classification: Non-ExemptSalary Range: $100,000
Date: November 2025
Join the Flying Food team and be part of a dynamic organization that values creativity, rewards innovation, and supports career advancement! FFG provides elegant passenger meals to over 70 airline customers, primarily long-haul carriers. We also produce fresh, prepared foods for retail partners in the food service, grocery, and specialty food industries. MUST BE ABLE TO SPEAK JAPANESE.
Essential Functions
- Passionate and excited about culinary knowledge, especially in modern Japanese-inspired cuisine.
- Must have above-average Japanese cooking knowledge.
- Ability to prepare a variety of cuisines using skill, innovation, and creativity.
- Executes food preparation according to policy, procedure, and specifications.
- Ensure compliance with airline and fresh meal specifications, personal hygiene & food handling procedures.
- Helps to maintain workstation and overall kitchen cleanliness. Assist in departmental scheduling and control of hours and food costs.
- Helps control food costs by following proper food rotation procedures (FIFO).
- Knowledge of safety procedures, including safe temperatures at which ingredients must be kept and to which food must be prepared to avoid foodborne illness.
- Ability to work as part of a team, collaborating on complex dishes.
- Calm demeanor to work in a high-stress, fast-paced environment
- Comprehension and organization to follow direct orders and recipes and to correctly prepare dishes to the airline standards.
- Ensure HACCP and General Manufacturing practices are followed.
- Ensure safety awareness is implemented in all related departments.
- Other duties as assigned.
Skills and Qualifications
- Minimum of 3 years as Japanese cooking in a high-volume cooking institution/airline catering or food catering industry.
- Manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination to handle tools, such as knife techniques for chopping, slicing, cutting, and dicing.
- Ability to stand in one place for hours at a time, handle the heat, and work shifts.
- Ability to read, speak and write English and JAPANESE.
- 3-5 years of Japanese cooking experience preferred.
- Experience with multi-airlines international customers preferred.
- Working knowledge of HACCP, USDA, and FDA compliance.
- Minimum of two (2) years as a Lead Cook in a high-volume cooking institution/airline catering or food catering industry.
Supervisory Responsibility
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
Work Environment
This job operates in a professional kitchen. This role routinely uses kitchen equipment.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand for long periods of time; and reach with hands and arms.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position. Schedules are based on our needs, were a 24/7 facility and candidates will be need to be able to work any schedule, any day including holidays and weekends.
Travel
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Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Benefits
Flying Food Group, LLC offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, prescription, drug coverage, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity plans, flexible spending accounts, employee assistance program, commuter benefit, retirement program 401(k), tuition reimbursement, and pet insurance.