Executive Chef

Danbury Senior Living; North Canton (OH); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company paid Short Term Disability

Long Term Disability

Life and AD&D

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k)

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Danbury Senior Living seeks an Executive Chef to lead our dining services, ensuring high-quality, nutritionally appropriate meals for residents in a healthcare setting. The role requires culinary leadership, menu planning, and strong cost-control skills.

The Executive Chef will oversee menu development, diet compliance, staff supervision, and cross-department coordination to deliver exceptional dining experiences for residents and families.

Qualifications

• Culinary degree from an accredited institution.
• 5 years of dietary/dining supervision in healthcare/senior living.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, and direct overall dining services operations.
• Maintain clean, safe, and sanitary department standards.
• Determine food presentation and standardize service methods.
• Assist in planning regular and special diet menus as prescribed.
• Handle administrative tasks and reporting as required.
• Coordinate dining services with other departments.
• Develop staff rapport to ensure quality dining for residents.
• Ensure compliance with policies and procedures.
• Delegate authority and establish production lines for timely meals.

Skills

Executive kitchen leadership

Fine dining experience

Menu planning and cost control

Education

Culinary degree from an accredited institution

Job description

At Danbury, you don’t just clock in at a job. You walk in the door to a work family who wants to make the day count. We truly believe our employees and residents are a family that comes together to enjoy the good things in life, including one another. When our employees feel special, so do our residents. That’s the Danbury Difference

Executive Chef Position

We are currently seeking applicants for an Executive Chef position.

Responsibilities

• The executive chef will plan, organize, develop, inspire and direct the overall operation of Dining Services to assure that delicious quality nutritional services are provided.
• It is the responsibility of this director to ensure that the department is maintained in a clean, safe and sanitary manner.
• Determine how food should be presented and create decorative food displays. Standardize methods in which work will be accomplished.
• Assist in planning regular and special diet menus as prescribed by the attending physician. Assure that food is available for preparation.
• Perform administrative requirements such as completing necessary forms, reports, evaluations, studies, etc., and submit as required.
• Coordinate dining services with other departments as necessary.
• Develop and maintain a good working rapport with all community staff to assure that dining service can be properly maintained to meet the needs of the residents.
• Ensure that department staff, residents, visitors, etc., follow established policies and procedures at all times.
• Delegate authority, responsibility, and accountability to other responsible department staff.
• Establish dining service production lines, etc., to assure that meals are prepared on time.

Requirements

• This department director has should extensive experience in providing fine dining in a variety of venues.
• The ideal candidate will have a culinary degree from an accredited institution and 5 years of dietary/dining service experience in a supervisory capacity in a restaurant, hospital, health care/senior living facility.
• Training/education in cost control, food management, and/or diet therapy for healthcare residents is a must.

Benefits for full time employees

• Company paid Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Life and AD&D
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Additional Voluntary Life, Additional Voluntary AD&D
• 401(k)
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement

Danbury Senior Living provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.