Sous Chef

Continental Services; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 30,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Parental leave

401(k) with company match

At-work dining perks

Flexible schedules

Generous PTO

Employee assistance program

Job summary

American Axle is seeking a Sous Chef to lead the culinary team for production of food and quality across events and on-site productions.

The role emphasizes leadership, training, scheduling, and ensuring safety standards at each event location, with opportunities to manage large teams and seasonal events.

Compensation is $22.00–$23.00 per hour, full-time with comprehensive benefits and growth opportunities within a dynamic catering environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Culinary Arts or equivalent experience.
• 5+ consecutive years in banquet/off-premise catering with leadership of 20+ staff.
• Large kitchen, banquet, or off-premise catering experience preferred.
• Serve Safe/Allergen Certified or willing to obtain certification.
• Seasonal event-driven schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays.

Responsibilities

• Leadership: train and develop the culinary team; contribute to yearly planning.
• Food Preparation: manage daily kitchen prep; ensure proper portioning and packaging; close kitchen daily.
• Quality: maintain food production quality and timelines; ensure effective communication.
• Development: stay aware of new food trends and catering methods.
• Maintenance: keep kitchen prep areas, coolers and freezers organized; rotate stock.
• Management: align with yearly goals, budgets, and staff scheduling.

Skills

Leadership

Food preparation

Quality control

Development

Maintenance

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor Degree in Culinary Arts

5+ years banquet/off-premise catering leadership

Tools

Serve Safe/Allergen Certification

Job description

Sous Chef

Department: American Axle HQ 700160

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: American Axle

Reporting To: Christina Preston

Compensation: $22.00 - $23.00 / hour

Description

The Sous Chef is responsible to manage the culinary team on a day to day basis for production of food and overall food quality. This includes constant communication with the staff, training of staff on kitchen procedures, laying out the production week to week and scheduling appropriately. Working offsite events, scheduling, and training, writing plans for large events, and visiting events to insure quality and safety standards at each event location.

Key Responsibilities

1. 1. Leadership: Actively engage in the training, development, and leadership of the culinary team. Assist in the ongoing creation and execution of the company vision. Incorporate individual annual reviews of team members into yearly planning.
2. 2. Food Preparation: Facilitate and manage daily prep in the kitchen. Ensure food is properly prepared, packaged and shipped in a way that will allow for it to be portioned and served to guests in compliance with recipe standards. Ensure the kitchen is closed properly daily
3. 3. Quality: Ensure quality and completeness of food production. Ensure quality standards are being met and timelines followed. Ensure timely and complete communication with interested parties to ensure quality standards are being met
4. 4. Development: Maintain awareness of new food trends, delivery methods for catering, new ingredients and new trends in plate presentations
5. 5. Maintenance: Manage daily upkeep and organization of the kitchen prep areas, cooler and freezers. Rotate products efficiently through the planning process.
6. 6. Management: understand yearly goals and budgets including food costs, labor costs, forecasting of business’ seasonality and scheduling appropriately

Demonstrates attributes of

1. Strong proficiency with electronic communication, Microsoft Office Suite, and related systems used in the industry
2. Strong organizational skills
3. Positive attitude and the willingness to work with all facets and levels of management

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

1. 1. Bachelor Degree in Culinary Arts OR equivalent work experience in the industry required
2. 2. Proven track record of 5 + consecutive years in banquet and off premise catering, as well as, in a leadership/management role and management of up to 20+ staff
3. 3. Large kitchen, banquet or off premise catering strongly preferred
4. 4. Serve Safe/Allergen Certified or willingness to obtain certification required
5. 5. Must be able and willing to work seasonal event driven schedule including nights, weekend and summer holidays

Benefits

We prioritize the health, wellness and work-life balance of our team members and designed our comprehensive compensation packages to reflect that.

• Full-time team members are eligible for medical, dental and vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, parental leave, 401(k) with company match, at-work dining perks, flexible schedules, generous PTO, and a total rewards program. Team Members can also use our inclusive employee assistance program.
• Part-time Team Members are eligible for our 401(k) with company match, at work dining perks and team members can also use our inclusive employee assistance program.

Location-specific perks may also include wellness programming, on-the-job training, corporate-hosted courses, certifications and team events.