The Chef De Cuisine works side by side with the culinarians to ensure the highest quality of seasonally prepared meals is served daily through various venues.
Pay: $70-$75k
Availability: Sunday-Thursday
What will I do every day?
- Creates and implements vision for service excellence in dining
- Manages and improves resident and family satisfaction, loyalty within dining program
- Accountable to identify, benchmark and leverage best practices of customer experiences within dining program
- Develop and maintain effective relationships and two-way communication with residents and families
- Communicate the company vision and strategy to create alignment between daily activities and company strategy
- Create and prepare high quality meals utilizing fresh quality ingredients and scratch made recipes consistent with local custom and tastes
- Demonstrate senior culinary leadership using advanced cooking techniques, diverse cuisines and new cooking equipment
- Create seasonal menu(s) that align with regional preferences promoting choice and options for residents, guests and associates
- Effectively supervise culinary department operations on a day-to-day basis informing the Food and Beverage Director of key operational changes and updates
- Full responsibility and supervision of the culinary team including all cooks and production associates, teaching, leading and inspiring cooking techniques and best practices
- Preventatively maintain all kitchens, store rooms and scullery in a clean sanitary condition according to state health code or regulatory agency
- Serve as morning or evening cook at the community as needed
- Maintain inventory control of quantity and condition of all kitchen small wares, equipment and supplies
- Responsible for the safe working condition of all food service equipment
- Purchase all food and non-food supplies from approved vendors, use local artisan vendors where possible
- Direct responsibility of cooks and utility workers.
What will I need to be successful in this role?
- A passion for excellence
- Be a great team player
- Culinary degree and 3 years professional culinary experience in established scratch cooking food production required. In lieu of culinary degree, candidates that possess 7-10 years professional culinary experience in established scratch cooking food production will be considered.
- Menu creation and ability to teach cooking techniques, regional cuisines and culinary skills required.
- Should have extensive experience in a multitude of cuisines and preferably classically trained.
- Vendor management, purchasing and costing experience preferred.
- Must possess strong communication and leadership skills.
Special Requirements/Certifications I may need?
- A current Food Handler’s Certificate is required
What’s in it for me? (Great Question!)
- Competitive pay: $88,000-$90,000/Yr. Depending on experience
- Sunday-Thursday work schedule
- Healthcare Benefits including Vision & Dental
- Matching 401k
- Paid Time Off
- Rewards and Bonus Opportunities
- Continuous Training and Growth Opportunities
What do we do?
We create a great place to live for our residents and a great place to work for our associates. Kisco Senior Living has been a dynamic, award-winning leader in the senior living industry for the past 25 years.
All offers of employment are subject to satisfying our pre-employment process which includes: successfully passing a drug screen, TB Test and Background Check
*Kisco Senior Living is an Equal Opportunity Employer