Field's at the Wilderness Kitchen Lead

Wilderness Resort; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

The Wilderness Resort is seeking a Kitchen Lead to drive daily culinary operations at our Wisconsin Dells resort. This full-time role requires overseeing kitchen staff, supporting training, and ensuring food safety, sanitation, cost control, and consistent guest satisfaction.

Day, night, and weekend availability are needed. As a Kitchen Lead, you will work closely with culinary leadership to maintain high standards, coordinate orders and inventory, and uphold recipe compliance across all

Qualifications

• Experience directing daily culinary operations.
• Supervising and training kitchen staff (line cooks, prep cooks, dishwashers).
• Ensuring food safety, sanitation, and cost controls.

Responsibilities

• Direct daily culinary operations and opening/closing procedures.
• Supervise and train kitchen staff across roles.
• Monitor performance through coaching to meet service and quality standards.
• Collaborate with Chef de Cuisine on recipe compliance and cost control.
• Assist with ordering, vendor coordination, and monthly inventory counts.
• Demonstrate proficiency across kitchen duties and roles.
• Communicate operational needs and feedback to the team.
• Maintain clean, safe, and hygienic kitchen environments.
• Adhere to internal controls and safety policies.

Skills

Kitchen supervision

Staff training

Food safety

Inventory management

Cost control

Vendor coordination

Communication

Culinary duties

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

Kitchen inventory software

POS systems

Job description

Wilderness Resort in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin is America's Largest Waterpark Resort! The Wilderness provides a fun, safe, and memorable experience to not only our guests but our employees as well! We are a family-owned resort that takes pride in ensuring guest satisfaction as well as treating our employees like family. We strive for excellence within our resort and hope to create a long-lasting positive influence on the employees that join on our team.

Join the Wilderness Family for a rewarding employment experience! #WeAreFamily

The Wilderness Resort is seeking hardworking, dependable, enthusiastic, customer service driven individuals to join our fast-paced team! Employees have access to great benefits, amenity usage, and so much more!

The Kitchen Lead position assists in directing daily culinary operations to ensure high-quality food, service excellence, and efficient kitchen performance in compliance with company standards. This role oversees kitchen staff, supports training and inventory processes, ensures food safety and sanitation compliance, and works closely with culinary leadership to maintain consistency, cost control, and exceptional guest satisfaction.
This is a full-time position with day, night and weekend availability.

Essential duties and tasks of the position include but are not limited to:

• Assist in directing daily culinary operations, including opening and closing procedures, to ensure efficiency and quality standards are met.
• Supervise, train, and support all kitchen staff, including line cooks, prep cooks, and dishwashers, ensuring understanding of job expectations and company policies.
• Monitor daily performance through observation and coaching to ensure adherence to service, productivity, and quality standards.
• Work closely with the Chef de Cuisine and Kitchen Supervisor to ensure recipe compliance, food quality, cost control, waste reduction, and adherence to sanitation and safety regulations.
• Assist with ordering food and supplies, vendor coordination, and completion of monthly inventory counts.
• Demonstrate full proficiency in all kitchen positions and culinary duties.
• Communicate effectively with kitchen staff regarding operational needs, concerns, and performance feedback, escalating issues as appropriate.
• Ensure food is prepared and handled in a clean, safe, and hygienic environment at all times.
• Comply with all internal controls, company, departmental, and safety policies and procedures.
• Assist in addressing staff concerns and issues in collaboration with culinary leadership.
• Perform all other duties as assigned by management.

*Wilderness Resort is an Equal Opportunity Employer*