Sous Chef

Brightwater Senior Living; Santa Rosa (CA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Brightwater Senior Living is seeking a talented Sous Chef for our Santa Rosa Hills Senior Living community. The role focuses on culinary excellence, high-quality food preparation, and delivering nutritious meals for residents and guests.

You will assist with kitchen operations, menu execution, food safety compliance, inventory management, and staff training to uphold Brightwater’s dining experience. Join a team dedicated to compassionate service and exceptional dining.

Qualifications

• Culinary Arts degree or equivalent experience.
• Two years of institutional or full-service restaurant cooking experience.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to manage varying quantities from set recipes and convert measurements.

Responsibilities

• Prepare nutritious, appetizing and attractive meals for residents and guests.
• Assist in menu development, costing and execution.
• Train kitchen personnel and enforce sanitation standards.
• Coordinate kitchen operations to ensure timely and economical food preparation.
• Maintain inventory, receive deliveries and manage end-of-month reporting.

Skills

Communication skills

Food safety awareness

Attention to detail

Inventory management

Education

Culinary Arts degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Kitchen equipment knowledge

Job description

• Location 3737 Airway Dr.,Santa Rosa, CA, 95403,United States
• Base Pay $23.00 - $25.30 / Hour
• Job Category Dining, Hospitality, Cook
• Required Degree NONE

Santa Rosa Hills Senior Living, an Independent Living, Assisted Living, and Memory Care senior living community, is seeking a talented and dedicated Sous Chef to join our Dining Services team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for culinary excellence, experience in high-quality food preparation, and a commitment to delivering nutritious, appetizing, and beautifully presented meals for residents and guests. This role assists with kitchen operations, menu execution, food safety compliance, inventory management, staff training, and maintaining the exceptional dining experience that Brightwater residents enjoy every day.

We are proud to offer the highest quality engagement, dining, and health support services, and a team that truly cares for our residents. We are always looking for compassionate, teamwork-oriented professionals to join our team. Every team member in a Brightwater community embodies the mission of our company: to inspire hope and enhance the lives of our residents through the creation of an unparalleled experience.

Position Summary

Provide exceptional quality food and service to all residents, guests and coworkers by performing essential duties effectively and efficiently. Prepare nutritious, appetizing, and attractive meals to residents and guests.

• Maintain resident, employee, and community information in strict confidence (with community management or other employees as necessary).
• Assist in the development, costing and execution of menus and menu items.
• Assist in interviewing and training kitchen personnel.
• Assist in reviewing work procedures and operational problems to determine ways to improve production, service, performance and safety.
• Monitor food preparation methods, portion sizes and garnishing and presentation of food.
• Test cooked food by tasting and smelling to ensure palatability and flavor conformity.
• Assist in developing and enforce scheduled cleaning, stocking, rotation and maintenance tasks.
• Estimate food consumption to anticipate amounts to be purchased.
• Schedule and receive food deliveries, checking contents to verify product quality and quantity.
• Train kitchen personnel in proper operating procedures and sanitation of all equipment, utensils and machinery.
• Enforce and ensure cleanliness and organization of kitchen.
• Assist in planning of menus and food utilization based on anticipated number of guests, popularity and costs.
• Coordinate assignments of cooking personnel to ensure economical use of food and timely preparation.
• Inspect supplies, equipment and work areas to ensure conformance to established standards.
• Assist in monitoring compliance with health and fire regulations regarding food and beverage preparation and building maintenance in kitchen facilities.
• Adhere to all food-related safety and sanitation standards.
• Ensure food, supplies, and appropriate personnel are available for meal planned.
• Supervise preparation of serving carts.
• Adhere to proper procedures for covering, labeling, dating, and storing food in a timely manner.
• Complete temperature and leftover logs.
• Resolve resident-related food complaints as necessary.
• Supervise overall kitchen operations and staff in the absence of the Chef.
• Perform administrative duties including menu planning, ordering, receiving, invoice processing, inventory, end-of-the month report, and staffing.
• Keeps immediate supervisor promptly and fully informed of all problems or unusual matters of significance and takes prompt corrective action where necessary or suggest alternative courses of action.
• Participate in the Guest Chef Program.

Requirements

• Have Culinary Arts degree or equivalent experience.
• Have two years of experience in institutional or full-service restaurant cooking.
• Demonstrate ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to prepare varying quantities of set recipes by converting common measurements and equivalents.
• Ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules.
• Ability to collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to hear well amongst loud background noise.
• Meet state or provincial health related requirements.
• Maintain food handlers permit as required by state or provincial regulations.
• Maintain any certifications as required by state or provincial regulations.

Summary

About us

Brightwater is a management company that oversees senior living communities across North America. At Brightwater, our goal is to lead the way in innovation for tomorrow to enrich the lives of seniors today by providing seniors and families with hospitality and healthcare experiences that are unrivaled.

Why we do what we do

We know that the most important moments in our residents’ lives are the ones that make them feel at home. We continue to create services and amenities designed to help seniors' live life THEIR way and never ask them to change who they are to fit into our communities. We design spaces that adapt to their lives, their needs, and their choices.

What we value

Everything our team members do, everything our team members say, and the way our team members act is a direct reflection of the Brightwater brand. We know how important it is to show admiration, have integrity, and work as a team to strive for both excellence and innovation. We expect our team members to take ownership of their role and show stewardship in the way they manage human, material and fiscal resources that have been entrusted to our care. We also encourage the complete well-being of our team members by valuing the time required for regeneration and rejuvenation.

Our communication philosophy

We pride ourselves on creating an environment that facilitates open and transparent communication with our team members, our residents and our families. Our team is available to listen, support and serve the needs of all team members through direct and ongoing dialogue, and we believe that this respectful, open-minded dialogue makes us stronger in what we do and how we do it. We make every effort to ensure team member’s suggestions, ideas, opinions, and concerns are heard, and we reward team members for creation of ideas that improve any aspect of our community.

Brightwater Senior Living is an equal-opportunity employer and strives to provide an environment in which human dignity prevails. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race, perceived race, color, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, creed, religion, age, marital status, family/parental status, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, source of income, receipt of public assistance, status as a veteran or current or future military status. Brightwater Senior Living does not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.