Field Sous Chef: Campus-Wide Coverage & Lead Prep

Upper Crust Food Service, LLC; Pullman (WA); In loco; USD 55.000 - 75.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Upper Crust Food Service is seeking a Field Sous Chef to provide agile daily coverage across all campus houses, rotating to lead service and maintain menu standards. You will coordinate prep, ensure food safety, support special events, and collaborate with front-of-house teams.

This role emphasizes culinary leadership and cross-campus mobility to drive consistent dining experiences. This position offers growth through shadowing senior chefs and a path to permanent kitchen leadership across

Competenze

• Culinary degree or equivalent professional kitchen experience.
• 3+ years in a professional kitchen, with at least 1 year at the Sous Chef level or equivalent.
• Demonstrated ability to execute a menu designed by another chef to that chef's standard.
• Strong food safety knowledge; ServSafe certification or ability to obtain within 60 days of hire.
• Flexibility and mobility — willingness to work across multiple kitchens on short notice, including early mornings, evenings, and occasional weekends.
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to integrate quickly into established kitchen teams.

Mansioni

• Receive daily assignments from the Area Manager or Operations Specialist and report to the assigned house ready to lead service.
• Execute the house's planned menu to the standard expected by the house's clients — preserving continuity during the absence.
• Manage back-of-house operations for the day including prep coordination, station setup, food safety compliance, and service execution.
• Partner with the house's front-of-house team and house leadership on day-of logistics, dietary accommodations, and guest needs.
• Rotate across all houses served on campus, building working relationships with each house's team, clients, and leadership.
• Learn each kitchen's equipment, inventory systems, vendor relationships, and service cadence.
• Document insights, standards, and opportunities observed across houses to inform campus-wide best practices.
• Provide pre-service prep assistance at houses with high-volume meal periods.
• Support new house onboarding during the first weeks of service on a new campus contract.
• Execute special events including philanthropies, recruitment events, and formal dinners.
• Complete structured shadow time with senior chefs as part of a documented development plan.

Conoscenze

Culinary leadership

Team collaboration

Food safety knowledge

Flexibility

Mobility across kitchens

Strong communication

Formazione

Culinary degree or equivalent

Descrizione del lavoro

Upper Crust Food Service is seeking a Field Sous Chef to provide agile daily coverage across all campus houses, rotating to lead service and maintain menu standards. You will coordinate prep, ensure food safety, support special events, and collaborate with front-of-house teams.

This role emphasizes culinary leadership and cross-campus mobility to drive consistent dining experiences. This position offers growth through shadowing senior chefs and a path to permanent kitchen leadership across