Sous Chef

Truluck’s Ocean’s Finest Seafood & Crab; Maryland; On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discount

Paid time off

Job summary

Truluck's DC location is seeking professional Fine Dining Sous Chef candidates with a minimum of five years in upscale kitchens. The role focuses on leadership, recipe execution, and delivering high-quality seafood and steak dishes in a busy setting.

Salary ranges from $70,000 to $80,000 and includes employee discounts and paid time off. If you are driven to advance toward an executive kitchen leadership position, we want to meet you.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years' culinary experience in fine dining.
• Experience coaching team and cooking in high-volume environments.
• Ability to follow recipes and systems precisely.
• Ambition to advance toward executive chef roles.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Chef in overall leadership of culinary operations.
• Lead kitchen performance and maintain quality during service.
• Ensure strict adherence to recipes, portions and plating standards.
• Mentor and supervise line cooks and prep staff to meet timelines.

Skills

Fine dining experience

Sous chef leadership

High-volume kitchen

Coaching culinary staff

Recipe execution

Job description

We are looking for the best Sous Chefs in the DC area! Truluck's is currently interviewing culinary professionals in the DC area with experience working in upscale/fine dining kitchens.

• Salary: $70,000-$80,000 (Salary Commensurate with experience)
• Employee discount
• Paid time off

Experience with similar fine dining steak/seafood concepts is highly preferred!

Who We Are

Since opening our doors in 1992, we have dedicated ourselves to creating exhilarating moments and enduring memories. To do so, we bring our core values to your table every day:

Culinary Excellence, Sustainable Seafood, Southern Hospitality, Company Culture, and Philanthropy are what make Truluck’s, Truluck’s.

Our professional sous chefs help us deliver these core values to our guests and communities daily.

Our mission is simple. We are here to make good things happen for other people.

Who are you?

We are currently seeking Professional Fine Dining Sous Chef candidates who will dedicate themselves to this purpose in joining our exceptional team of culinary professionals at our Truluck\'s DC location. Successful candidates will have a minimum of five (5) years’ previous culinary experience and experience in preparing culinary products, coaching members of the culinary staff and cooking in high-volume environments. The Sous Chef assists the Chef in the overall leadership of the culinary functions. In addition to this, successful candidates must possess the ability to follow all recipes and systems and have a proven history of professionalism, accountability, and team commitment. The ideal candidate will have worked in a similar fine dining steak and seafood kitchen. We are looking for enthusiastic chefs with the heart of a great kitchen manager. Someone who has the drive to be an executive chef in the future. If this sounds like you, we would like to meet you!

Why us?

Truluck’s puts their employees and quality first. At Truluck’s, we make choices that honor the plate, the palate, and the planet. We practice TRU Sustainability, by maintaining an unwavering commitment to serving the highest-quality sustainable seafood. We will never serve endangered, overfished species, and we always follow Ocean Conservancy guidelines. Our Florida Stone Crab is captured by our team of professional crabbers, and our produce is sourced from local growers whenever possible.