Executive Sous Chef: Lead Kitchen, Service & Menu

Holbrook Life Management- Decatur LLC; Decatur (GA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Holbrook Life Management- Decatur LLC seeks an Executive Sous Chef to support the Executive Chef in daily kitchen management, ensure high-quality plates, and lead a team in a high-volume, hospitality-driven environment.

You will oversee menu production, production planning, and daily features while maintaining sanitation, labeling, and HACCP standards. The role requires strong leadership, English communication, and hands-on culinary excellence.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required; culinary degree or hospitality training preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of progressive culinary experience, including supervisory experience in restaurant, hotel, club, senior living, or high-volume food service operations.
• ServSafe certification required or ability to obtain within company-required timeframe.
• Strong cooking foundation, knife skills, station knowledge, production planning, and ability to train team members.
• Strong understanding of sanitation, food safety, allergens, holding temperatures, cooling, reheating, labeling, dating, and safe equipment use.
• Ability to read, write, and communicate effectively in English.
• Ability to lead a team, solve problems quickly, manage competing priorities, and maintain professional composure under pressure.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, TOAST POS, ordering systems, scheduling tools, or willingness to learn.
• Collaborative attitude with strong resident, guest, vendor, and team communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead kitchen execution alongside the Executive Chef, providing hands-on direction, coaching, station support, and accountability during service.
• Ensure all plates leaving the kitchen meet Holbrook standards for flavor, temperature, portioning, presentation, timing, and consistency.
• Support menu preparation, production planning, daily features, events, catering, resident functions, and seasonal menu execution.
• Maintain high standards for line checks, prep lists, production sheets, labeling, dating, storage, sanitation, allergen awareness, cooling, reheating, and HACCP compliance.
• Assist with scheduling, station assignments, training plans, daily lineups, menu rollouts, and corrective coaching for culinary team members.
• Use TOAST, ordering systems, inventory tools, and daily communication processes to support accurate forecasting, purchasing, and service readiness.
• Maintain inventory, receive and rotate product, monitor waste, manage par levels, and assist with food cost and labor cost control.
• Help manage vendor relationships, quality concerns, credits, substitutions, item codes, and product consistency.
• Maintain kitchens, walk-ins, freezers, dry storage, equipment, and prep areas in clean, organized, inspection-ready condition.
• Respond to resident, guest, and service team needs with urgency, professionalism, and a hospitality-first approach.
• Fill in for the Executive Chef when necessary and ensure daily culinary operations continue without interruption.

Skills

Culinary leadership

Team supervision

Food safety

English communication

Problem solving

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Culinary degree or hospitality training

Tools

TOAST POS

Microsoft Office

Scheduling tools

Job description

Holbrook Life Management- Decatur LLC seeks an Executive Sous Chef to support the Executive Chef in daily kitchen management, ensure high-quality plates, and lead a team in a high-volume, hospitality-driven environment.

You will oversee menu production, production planning, and daily features while maintaining sanitation, labeling, and HACCP standards. The role requires strong leadership, English communication, and hands-on culinary excellence.