Unit Executive Chef (Catering and Commissary)

Georgia Tech; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 79,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia Tech’s Unit Executive Chef leads culinary operations for a dining area, overseeing kitchen staff, food quality, safety, inventory, and cost control across menus and service.

Reporting to Tech Dining, this supervisory role requires five+ years in culinary services, ServSafe certification, a bachelor’s degree or equivalent, and a valid driver’s license; salary reflects budget and experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Current ServSafe Certification or other Georgia approved food safety certification
• Valid Georgia driver's license
• Minimum of five years of experience in culinary services, including multi-venue food service experience, supervisory experience, and menu management system experience
• Management experience within a higher education environment (preferred)

Responsibilities

• Trains and manages kitchen personnel and supervises/coordinates all related culinary activities, ensuring quality, consistency, and adherence to culinary standards
• Estimates food consumption, selects, and develops recipes, standardizes production recipes to ensure consistent quality, establishes presentation technique and quality standards, and responsible for menu planning and meeting budgetary requirements for food costs
• Ensures culinary equipment is properly operated and maintained
• Ensures compliance with sanitation and safety requirements that ensures a safe and sanitary work environment
• Ensures labeling requirements are met and compliance with allergen containment procedures
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Skills

Kitchen management

Leadership

Menu planning

Food safety

Budgeting

Training and mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

Menu management system

Job description

About Us

Overview

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

• 1. Students are our top priority.
• 2. We strive for excellence.
• 3. We thrive on diversity.
• 4. We celebrate collaboration.
• 5. We champion innovation.
• 6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
• 7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
• 8. We act ethically.
• 9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Department Information

Under Tech Dining's structure, supporting the Georgia Tech community and fueling futures, one meal, one smile at a time, the Executive Chef has oversight of both catered culinary operations and fresh food retail/vending production, including responsibility for production planning, food quality and consistency, food safety, inventory and cost controls, and coordination of the culinary team supporting these operations.

Job Summary

Within the department of Tech Dining, the Unit Executive Chef provides expertise, management and oversight of all culinary operations for a specific dining area(s). Responsibilities include oversight of Tech Dining menus, dietary needs, training programs, food safety, production and presentation of food, inventory management and cost control, adherence to local, state and national food sanitation regulations and proper use of necessary kitchen equipment.

Responsibilities

• Job Duty 1 - Trains and manages kitchen personnel and supervises/coordinates all related culinary activities, ensuring quality, consistency, and adherence to culinary standards.
• Job Duty 2 - Estimates food consumption, selects, and develops recipes, standardizes production recipes to ensure consistent quality, establishes presentation technique and quality standards, and responsible for menu planning and meeting budgetary requirements for food costs.
• Job Duty 3 - Ensures culinary equipment is properly operated and maintained.
• Job Duty 4 - Ensures compliance with sanitation and safety requirements that ensures a safe and sanitary work environment.
• Job Duty 5 - Ensures labeling requirements are met and compliance with allergen containment procedures.
• Job Duty 6 - Perform other related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

Other Required Qualifications

Current ServSafe Certification or other Georgia approved food safety certification. Valid Georgia driver's license.

Required Experience

Minimum of five years of experience in culinary services, including multi-venue food service experience, supervisory experience, and menu management system experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Experience

Management experience within a higher education environment

Proposed Salary

$79,478 to $91,602 (MRP) or higher based on budget and confirmed candidate qualifications and experience

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

SKILLS

Ability to develop and mentor others. Decision-making skills. Management skills. Ability to assist with strategic direction. Oral communication skills. Creativity. Basic computer skills and knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Planning skills. Ability to build collaborative relationships. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. Knowledge of sanitation regulations and food handling procedures. Proficient with computer applications and programs (i.e. Microsoft Office suite). Strong attention to detail and strong organizational and follow up skills. Strong management and customer service skills. Ability to provide culinary training and insight for special dietary requirements.

USG Core Values

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 25 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The Institute is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and Institute policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, and services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Equal opportunity and decisions based on merit are fundamental values of the University System of Georgia ("USG") and Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of an individual's race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

Other Information

This is a supervisory position.

This position has financial responsibilities.

This position will be required to drive.

This role is considered a position of trust.

This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).

This position may travel 1% - 24% of the time.

This position does not require security clearance.

Job Grade: C10

Location: Atlanta, GA

Background Check

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