Executive Chef - Elevate Senior Dining & Team Leadership

Springpoint Senior Living, Inc.; Maplewood (NJ); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Winchester Gardens is a Springpoint Senior Living Community located in Maplewood, NJ. Winchester Gardens is seeking a Full-Time Executive Chef to join our team.

The Executive Chef will showcase culinary talents through the delivery of show quality food while developing and empowering onsite staff, aiming to improve resident, employee, and client satisfaction while maximizing financial performance. This role ensures monthly budget, food and labor costs are met and safe handling of food per safety

Qualifications

• A.S. or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years of progressive culinary/kitchen management experience, depending upon formal degree or training.
• High volume, complex foodservice operations experience - highly desirable.
• Institutional and batch cooking experiences.
• Hands-on chefs experience a must.
• Comprehensive knowledge of food and catering trends with a focus on quality, production, sanitation, food cost controls, and presentation.
• Must be experienced with computers; to include Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and Power Point), Outlook, E-mail and the Internet.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily culinary production in preparation and production of meals, food quality and presentation, compliance with safety and sanitation standards and regulation, team member productivity and performance, cost controls and overall profitability.
• Determines how food should be presented and create decorative food displays.
• Provide direction on menu development based on product availability; creates distinctive specials that incorporate seasonal or special ingredients.
• Seeks out sources for fresh food; monitors all produce and meat for freshness.
• Maintain product consistency by conducting inspections of seasonings, portion, and appearance of food.
• Research customer preferences and develops a menu which incorporates local foods and flavors.
• Prepares and cooks foods of all types, either on a regular basis or for special guests or functions.
• Demonstrate new cooking techniques and equipment to staff.
• Supervises and coordinates activities of cooks and workers engaged in food preparation.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, local and company health, safety, sanitation standards.
• Provides guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
• Communicates the importance of safety procedures, detailing procedure codes, ensuring employee understanding of safety codes, monitoring processes and procedures related to safety.
• Monitors the quality of raw and cooked food products to ensure that standards are met.
• Follows and enforces food safety and sanitation guidelines.
• Maintains purchasing, receiving and food storage standards.

Skills

Leadership

Budgeting

Food cost control

Menu development

Staff training

Food quality and presentation

Food safety

Education

A.S. or equivalent experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Winchester Gardens is a Springpoint Senior Living Community located in Maplewood, NJ. Winchester Gardens is seeking a Full-Time Executive Chef to join our team.

The Executive Chef will showcase culinary talents through the delivery of show quality food while developing and empowering onsite staff, aiming to improve resident, employee, and client satisfaction while maximizing financial performance. This role ensures monthly budget, food and labor costs are met and safe handling of food per safety