Sous Chef

General Purpose of Job

Help manage all areas of the kitchen as needed or designated by the executive sous chef, executive chef, or corporate chef and take the place of the executive sous chef or executive chef when he/she cannot be present in the kitchen.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1. Uphold the high standards of 24 Carrots’ handbook and policies
2. Represent and uphold the 24 Carrots core values: Trustworthiness, Collaboration, Service Excellence and Dedication
3. Maintain order, discipline, safety, and organization in the kitchen
4. Manage all non-supervisory positions in kitchen department
5. Ensure all cooks stay on task and work effectively
6. Maintain order and discipline with the cooks
7. Conduct disciplinary action when necessary
8. Requires an understanding of federal, state, and local kitchen health and safety standards
9. Responsible for compliance with industry food safety standards
10. Maintain and supervise a clean and sanitary working environment
11. Ability to work with special food handling requirements for certain dishes such as vegan or gluten-free
12. Ensure that all food and products are consistently prepared and served according to the restaurant’s recipes, portioning, cooking and serving standards
13. Read and understand all banquet event orders
14. Help with prep
15. Oversee tastings
16. Order produce when needed
17. Help organize and oversee social prep cooks and ensure food meets 24 Carrots’ standards
18. Fill in for all kitchen positions wherever help is needed
19. Responsible for checking out lead chefs for events and ensure they have all food items/equipment and how to prepare and serve them.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Directly supervise kitchen staff members. Carry out supervisory duties in accordance with 24 Carrot’s policies, handbook, and applicable laws. Responsibilities include overseeing and directing employees as well as addressing complaints and solving problems. Accomplishes staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; developing, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, procedures, and productivity standards.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Professional, enthusiastic, responsible, and dependable team player
2. High level of personal hygiene
3. Good organizational and management skills
4. Can work well under pressure
5. Superior oral and written communication skills
6. Ability to quickly identify and resolve problems
7. Meticulously detail‐oriented
8. Strong computer skills
9. Adept at building teams
10. Self‐motivated,takes initiative and willing to acquire new skills
11. Willingnessto work in a collaborative environment with co‐workers from diverse technical backgrounds
12. Strong logic and reasoning skills to identify strengths and weakness of alternative solutions and approaches to issues as they arise
13. Must possess a current California Food Handler’s card.

Education and/or Experience

1. Two to four years related experience and/or training
2. California Food Handler’s card required within 30 days of hire
3. Reliable transportation and clean driving record required.

Language Skills

1. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations
2. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals
3. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Mathematical Skills

1. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
2. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability

1. Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
2. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; talk or hear; and taste or smell.
2. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to reach with hands and arms.
3. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
4. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
5. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
6. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
7. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet or humid conditions; outdoor weather conditions; extreme cold; and extreme heat.
2. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to work near moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles and vibration.
3. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud, but there will be cases where the noise level is extremely loud.
4. This position occasionally requires work that exceeds 40 hours per week and occasionally requires flexibility to start shift earlier and end shift later on little to no notice.

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