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Sous Chef
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Craftsbury Outdoor Center
Craftsbury, VT (In Person)
$56,160 Salary, Full-Time
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Job Description
About Us:
The Craftsbury Outdoor Center (COC) is a community-focused athletic training facility and outdoor destination located on a lakeside campus in Craftsbury, Vermont. Your familiarity with and admiration for working and playing in a small and rural community will help the COC achieve ourMission:
- To support and promote participation and excellence in lifelong sports with a special focus on Rowing, Cross Country Skiing, Biathlon, and Running.
- To use and teach sustainable practices.
- To protect and manage the surrounding land, lake and trails.
Position Summary:
The Sous Chef will work alongside the Executive Chef and will help to supervise a team of lead cooks, cooks, prep cooks, and dishwashers. The staff in our open-style kitchen prepare and serve a breakfast, lunch, and dinner buffet to an average of 120 guests per meal service. The dining hall is open to guests for a summer season (May - October) and a winter season (November - March) with two six-week periods of closure. The kitchen may remain open to feed staff and athletes on a limited schedule. Our kitchen serves guests, resident elite athletes, and employees. This position requires a flexible schedule with availability to provide substitute shift coverage on an evening, weekend, and some holidays.Pay:
$26 to $28 How to succeed in this role: The Sous Chef will effectively blend a diverse set of hard and soft skills to earn the trust and respect of his/her/their team while leading them with patience, understanding, and a firm but fair approach. Active listening and following through on implemented changes will prove beneficial to this leader of the kitchen and dining hall.Major Duties & Responsibilities May Include:
- Kitchen operations: Support the Executive Chef in overseeing the responsibilities of maintaining inventory levels, supplies, and tools to include ordering, receiving, storage, rotation, processing, and adherence to safety standards.
- Menu planning: Coordinate with staff to optimize available (seasonal) ingredients while utilizing a six-week rotation. Review existing recipes for accuracy and quality while inspiring innovation of new ideas to meet the needs of guests, elite athletes, and staff.
- Staff leadership: Assist the Executive Chef in job applicant assessments, employee training, when necessary, provide guidance and/or discipline to staff members to help them achieve success in their given roles while fostering a positive work environment and culture.
Administrative:
Support the Executive Chef in creating employee schedules and adjusting to known and unexpected staff absences. Communicate with other department leaders (maintenance, human resources, accounting, reservations, farm & garden), enrich and/or develop relationships with local farmers, producers, and other food vendors.Culinary:
Provide additional support to kitchen staff during high-volume peaks and/or during employee absences (planned or unplanned). Lead by example to improve the skills of existing cooks. Mentor inspired employees who want to learn and develop culinary tools.- Strategic development: Identify areas of improvement, create solutions, implement new strategies, and enforce new policies and procedures to elevate quality of output.
Qualifications:
- Ability to work at least one weekend day or night shift.
Education & Experience:
High school diploma or GED required. Culinary Arts degree or certificate desired but not required.- ServSafe Food Handler certified minimum, ServSafe Manager preferred. Training can be provided.
- Willingness to learn and perform all duties and responsibilities of each kitchen position - shift leader/cook, prep cook, and dishwasher.
- Comfortable using Microsoft applications (Outlook email, Word, Excel, Team).
- Must have reliable transportation.
- Must be able to stand for several hours.
- Must be able to occasionally lift 50lbs regularly.
Benefits:
Full-time employees (minimum of 28 hours worked per week) will receive:- Paid time off.
- Paid weekly.
- Weekend shift differential.
- Simple IRA with match (up to 3%).
- Employee Assistance Program.
- 100% of medical, dental, vision and disability insurance premiums paid (after 60 days of employment) for full-time employees.
- Free COC membership for you and your family household covers all your trail use, plus fitness classes, gym use and other employee discounts.
- 20% discount on retail items.
- A Sports Massage Therapist on campus offers a free 30-minute session pending availability.
- We also have a Chiropractor on campus.