Chef de Partie

Northwell Health; New York (NY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwell Health is seeking a skilled kitchen supervisor to oversee food preparation and station operations across designated areas, ensuring quality, safety, and timely service in a hospital setting.

You will train staff, manage schedules, monitor sanitation, and collaborate with executive chefs to plan menus for patients, cafeteria, and catering events. Minimum Associate's degree and 3–5 years of experience required.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• 3-5 years of relevant experience, required
• Leadership experience, preferred
• Culinary education, preferred

Responsibilities

• Provides training to new staff members and ongoing educational programs for staff.
• Assists in staff counseling and performance appraisals; completes competency assessments.
• Ensures safety, infection control, and sanitation standards.
• Prepares food and stations for designated specialty areas and menus.
• Plans menus for patients, cafeteria, and catering functions; develops production recipes.
• Monitors portion control and plating; maintains quality standards and presentation.
• Oversees inventory communication and equipment maintenance with chefs.

Skills

Staff training

Leadership

Customer service

Sanitation practices

Education

Associate's degree or equivalent

Culinary education preferred

Job description

Hours and shifts may vary works weekends and holidays

Guides team members performance and duties, works in collaboration with the front of House Leads and Team leaders ensuring smooth and timely service. Prepares and specializes in the preparation of a specific food group and Food Stations such as meat, fish, vegetables, sauces, desserts, etc.

Job Responsibility

• Provides training to new staff members and ongoing educational programs for staff.
• Provides input into staff counseling and evaluations; assists in completing competency assessment/performance appraisals according to schedules and policies.
• Ensures safety measures are followed and acts as resource to staff in matters of customer service, operation of equipment, safety, and infection control.
• Responsible for the preparation of food and food stations for designated specialty area.
• Prioritizes schedules, assigns, and monitors work to optimize preparation of foods to meet the menu requirements including developing, selecting, and standardizing production recipes
• Establishes presentation techniques and quality standards for food taste, temperature, appearance, volume, etc.
• Assists management in menu planning for patients, cafeteria, and catering functions.
• Generates and posts daily food production sheets based on estimated food consumption.
• Prepares all food items appropriate for each meal period including entrees, side dishes, convenience items, desserts, etc. according to established recipes and menus
• Provides guidance in appropriate use of equipment, utensils, cooking techniques and sanitary practices.
• Places food items in appropriate cooking pans and cooks according to menu requests; portions food products according to established portion control guidelines; places panned food on meal tray assembly line and/or serves food according to menu requests.
• Removes wraps, dates, labels and stores unused food and discards food not meeting time and temperature guidelines.
• Complies with all applicable sanitation, safety and fire regulations; cleans respective work area, equipment and utensils.
• Informs Executive Chef and Executive Sous Chef of inventory overages or shortages.
• Reports any malfunctioning equipment or utensils to Executive Chef and Sous Chef
• Addresses and resolves customer questions and/or complaints.
• Adheres to all Opening and Closing procedures.
• Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here but considered related are not essential functions

Job Qualification

• Associate's degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• 3-5 years of relevant experience, required
• Leadership experience, preferred
• Culinary education, preferred

*Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).