Kitchen Lead - Culinary Ops & Team Leadership

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

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