Executive Chef 2

Sodexo hiring for Executive Chef 2 jobs in New York, NY, US

Are You the One? We are seeking a hands-on, creative, and imaginative Culinarian with a discriminatory eye for detail.  You will have prior experience managing a diverse “restaurant service” style operation with proven results

A high-profile Sodexo Corporate Services account located in New York, New York is looking for an Executive Chef 2 to focus on our catering for an upscale corporate account. This is an excellent opportunity for an innovative culinarian to provide high-end service for our catering department. 

This Executive Chef will work primarily Monday through Friday, 6AM-4PM shift with no holidays and few weekends..

We are seeking candidates with a prior background in a high-end culinary position with supervisory and corporate services experience and with some computer skills. Union experience a plus

Key Responsibilities will also include:

• Catering production
• Ensures food preparation & production meets operational standards
• Ensure food & physical safety programs are followed

Is this opportunity right for you? We are looking for candidates who also have:

• Ability to follow culinary trends and innovate using local sustainable food sources, and translate ideas into unique menu and recipe writing programs that advance the culinary experience across the regional enterprise
• The ability to completely translate “authentic” international and farm-to-table cuisine to the customer.
• The ability to effectively communicate with culinary staff, key personnel, catering staff and management teams along with a passion and dedication to be “one of the best”
• The ability to be highly engaged, passionate and extremely hands-on in daily operations
• The ability to articulate and demonstrate a wide-ranging variety of cooking techniques and skills for the catering staff (plate presentation, quality, safety, proper culinary techniques).
• Demonstrate agility and quick decision-making abilities to effectively adapt to potential changes, additions, and cancelations

Why Sodexo?

• Vacation, Personal and Sick Time
• Medical Benefits beginning date of hire
• 401K and Roth IRA with company match eligible.  

Sodexo offers a full array of benefits including paid time off, holidays, medical, dental, vision, 401K and access to ongoing training and development programs, tuition reimbursement, plus health and wellness programs.

Sodexo offers fair and equitable compensation, partially determined by a candidate's education level or years of relevant experience. While the budgeted range for the position is posted, Sodexo salary offers are based on a candidate's specific criteria, like experience, skills, education and training.

Basic Education Requirement - Associate's Degree or equivalent experience
Basic Management Experience - 2 years
Basic Functional Experience - 2 years work experience in food or culinary services including restaurants, fast food, vending, catering services, institutional services, mall food courts, etc.

Sodexo is an EEO/AA/Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.