Sous Chef

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.

Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• 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.

• 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.