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ARAMARK
Executive Chef
Job Description
Job Description Help for Job Description. Opens a new window. Job Description Aramark Healthcare+ is seeking an experienced Executive Chef to support a healthcare operation in Coral Springs, FL. The Executive Chef is a management position overseeing Chef Managers as well as hourly culinary staff and is responsible for developing and executing culinary solutions to meet the needs and tastes of our customers and clients. This role oversees and manages culinary operations to ensure production, presentation, food quality, safety, and service standards are consistently met. The Executive Chef will provide hands-on culinary leadership, apply culinary expertise to food preparation and final presentation, and support the development and performance of the culinary team. The ideal candidate will bring strong culinary leadership experience, a passion for developing teams, and the ability to successfully manage culinary operations within a fast-paced environment. Healthcare or high-volume institutional food service experience is strongly preferred. Job Responsibilities
- Ensures culinary production appropriately connects to the Executional Framework
- Ensures proper culinary standards and techniques are in place for preparation of food items, including production, presentation, and service standards
- Manages a culinary team, including chef managers and hourly staff, to ensure quality in final presentation of food
- Train and manage culinary and kitchen employees to use best practice food production techniques
- Coach employees by creating a shared understanding about what needs to be achieved and how it is to be achieved
- Reward and recognize employees
- Plan and team meetings and daily huddles
- Complete and maintain all staff records including training records, shift opening/closing checklists and performance data
- Develop and maintain effective client and guest rapport for mutually beneficial business relationships
- Interact directly with guests daily
- Aggregate and communicate regional culinary and ingredient trends
- Responsible for delivering food and labor targets
- Consistent focus on margin improvement; understanding performance metrics, data, order, and inventory trends
- Ensure efficient execution and delivery of all culinary products in line with the daily menu
- Maintain integrity of the standard Aramark food offer; responsible for always maintaining food quality and safety of items
- Full compliance with Operational Excellence fundamentals: managing waste, standard menus, recipes and ingredients through managing customer driven menus and labor standards
- Understand end to end supply chain and procurement process and systems, ensuring only authorized suppliers are used
- Full knowledge and implementation of the Food Framework
- Ensure accuracy of estimated food consumption for appropriate requisitions and/or food purchase
- Ensure proper equipment operation and maintenance
- Ensure compliance with Aramark SAFE food and Quality Assurance standards, occupational and environmental safety policies in all culinary and kitchen operations
- Comply with all applicable policies, rules and regulations, including but not limited to those relating to safety, health, wage and hour At Aramark, developing new skills and doing what it takes to get the job done make a positive impact for our employees and for our customers. In order to meet our commitments, job duties may change or new ones may be assigned without formal notice
- Qualifications
- Requires at least 4 years of culinary experience
- At least 2 years in a management role preferred
- Requires a culinary degree or equivalent experience
- Ability to multi-task
- Ability to simplify the agenda for the team
- Requires advanced knowledge of the principles and practices within the food profession.
- This includes experiential knowledge required for management of people and/or problems.
- Requires oral, reading, and written communication skills Education About Aramark Our Mission Rooted in service and united by our purpose, we strive to do great things for each other, our partners, our communities, and our planet.
- a new challenge, a sense of belonging, or just a great place to work
- our focus is helping you reach your full potential.
Benefits
- Dental Insurance
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An Executive Chef holds a position at the very top of the kitchen management structure. Executive chefs are often responsible for the operation of multiple outlets of food service. Usually larger establishments have an executive chef, and it is primarily for a management role rather than manual cooking.
$80,847 / year median in Florida
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