Executive Chef & Food Safety Lead - Modern Kitchen

FuntoNetwork; North Carolina; On-site; USD 70,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

FuntoNetwork seeks an Executive Chef and Food Safety Lead for a critical RFP-driven opportunity with NCDA&CS. You will oversee kitchen operations, HACCP/compliance, menu development, and safety program alignment.

This role requires proven leadership in regulated environments, strong documentation, and coordination across project, quality, and operations teams to ensure timely submissions and delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience as Executive Chef and Food Safety Lead in regulated or enterprise environments.
• Ability to produce complete, reviewable work products tied to requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Strong documentation, stakeholder coordination, risk awareness, confidentiality, and deadline discipline.
• Licenses, certifications, clearances, or local delivery capacity when required by the solicitation.

Responsibilities

• Develop menus and production controls; oversee kitchen operations, sanitation, HACCP, allergen, health-code, and food-quality requirements.
• Trace assigned work to the RFP scope, requirement or RTM row, deliverable, dependency, acceptance criterion, schedule milestone, and supporting evidence.
• Review official solicitation materials and addenda affecting this workstream; document assumptions, open items, exclusions, risks, and required client decisions.
• Prepare role-specific technical inputs, work products, estimates, implementation details, quality records, and proposal or post-award delivery evidence.
• Coordinate interfaces and handoffs with project management, business analysis, technical, field, quality, compliance, training, and operations workstreams.
• Maintain status, issue, decision, change, and evidence records and escalation blockers before they affect submission or delivery readiness.

Skills

Executive Chef

Food Safety

Documentation

Stakeholder coordination

Deadline discipline

Public-sector experience

Education

Licenses / Certifications / Clearances

Job description

FuntoNetwork seeks an Executive Chef and Food Safety Lead for a critical RFP-driven opportunity with NCDA&CS. You will oversee kitchen operations, HACCP/compliance, menu development, and safety program alignment.

This role requires proven leadership in regulated environments, strong documentation, and coordination across project, quality, and operations teams to ensure timely submissions and delivery.