Executive Chef - Chinese Cuisine & Menu Development

LSG Sky Chefs group; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

SkyChefs in Irving, TX seeks an Executive Chef – Design & Development, Chinese Cuisine to lead authentic Chinese menu creation for global airline partners. This on-site role blends culinary artistry with precise production processes, yielding specifications, and rigorous quality controls.

The successful candidate will design and validate recipes, supervise menu rollouts, and ensure HACCP and FDA standards across high-volume operations. Strong Chinese language skills preferred.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional commercial cooking in a high-volume or specialty kitchen environment.
• Prior airline catering experience a plus but not required.
• Proficient in authentic Chinese cooking techniques.
• Chinese language proficiency.
• Understand and demonstrate concepts of financial controls (e.g. keep food cost within budget, control stock levels, minimize waste).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and lead menu presentations for Chinese and other assigned airline customers.
• Execute the culinary process steps of the standard design process within the Program Management Team and adhere to deadlines and cost targets.
• Plan, prepare, and execute customer menu presentations.
• Document specification changes, validate yielding and methods and batch recipe conversion estimates during menu presentation cooking and preparation.
• Consistently research new products entering the marketplace which could be added to standard products from the catalog.
• Train Executive Chefs and culinary personnel at Customer Service Centers on menu cycle changes.
• Audit and critique customer menus in a CSC and ensure improvements are made.
• Perform yield studies to determine true yielded cost in CBASE.
• Design and implement start-up of new customer menus.
• Design recipes and specs to maintain HACCP and FDA standards.
• Interface with customers as company culinary representative.
• Design food production and packing around Lean Manufacturing and Quality initiatives.

Skills

Chinese cooking techniques

Chinese language

Customer interaction

Education

Culinary degree from an accredited Culinary School

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

SkyChefs in Irving, TX seeks an Executive Chef – Design & Development, Chinese Cuisine to lead authentic Chinese menu creation for global airline partners. This on-site role blends culinary artistry with precise production processes, yielding specifications, and rigorous quality controls.

The successful candidate will design and validate recipes, supervise menu rollouts, and ensure HACCP and FDA standards across high-volume operations. Strong Chinese language skills preferred.