Executive Chef | The Lodge at Columbia Point

Columbia Hospitality • Richland, WA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The Executive Chef will maintain responsibility for the day-to-day operation of the kitchen and has complete responsibility for the kitchen in its entirety. This role involves developing and implementing procedures to ensure all work practices meet or exceed established standards, and communicating daily with the General Manager for updates, changes, and revisions to existing contracts. The Executive Chef will maintain standards for food quality, presentation, handling, sanitation, and safety, following all appropriate policies and procedures. This position also ensures timely and courteous follow-through on all client, guest, and team member requests, and assists in the selection, supervision, training, development, scheduling, evaluating, disciplining, and counseling of staff. Demonstrating positive leadership characteristics that empower and inspire employees to meet and exceed standards is crucial. The role involves monitoring food and labor costs, conducting daily walk-throughs of storage areas and food lines to ensure rotation, usage, cleanliness, and proper sanitation, and utilizing specification sheets to prepare daily preparation requirements and maintain par levels. The Executive Chef is responsible for the creation of new menu items, ensuring attractive and consistent presentations of food items, and supervising line cooks to monitor quality, presentation, and consistency. Handling customer requests in a timely manner, setting up, re-stocking, maintaining, and cleaning food preparation areas, and ensuring presentation standards are met for all hot and cold items are key duties. The role also includes reading and interpreting recipes, conducting product inventories, ordering and receiving product, and being responsible for team maintenance of grooming standards, adherence to sanitation and safe food handling standards, and all opening and closing kitchen procedures.

Requirements

• A culinary arts degree and/or equivalent training with 7+ years in industry and 2+ years of experience in culinary management role in a similar environment
• Must possess excellent business communication skills (both written and verbal) in order to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries
• Ability to manage according to employment and industry-relevant laws
• Conflict management and negotiation skills are required
• Must be flexible and able to perform multiple tasks, work in stressful situations with shifting priorities
• Must be familiar with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and other computer programs.
• Must demonstrate excellent people skills and a professional, friendly, and enthusiastic demeanor
• Be detail-oriented, reliable and punctual, and have exceptional organizational skills
• Necessary State Food Handler’s License(s)

Nice To Haves

• Don’t meet every single requirement? At Columbia Hospitality we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Responsibilities

• Maintains responsibility for day-to-day operation of the kitchen and has complete responsibility for the kitchen in its entirety
• Develops and implements procedures to ensure that all work practices meet or exceed the established standards
• Communicates daily with General Manager for updates, changes and revisions to existing contracts
• Maintains standards for food quality, presentation, handling, sanitation and safety. Follows all appropriate policies and procedures
• Ensures timely and courteous follow-through on all client, guest, and team member requests
• Assists in the selection, supervision, training, development, scheduling, evaluating, disciplining, and counseling of staff
• Demonstrates positive leadership characteristics that empower and inspire employees to meet and exceed standards
• Monitors food and labor costs
• Conducts daily walk-through of all walk-in refrigerators, dry storage areas and food lines to ensure rotation, usage, cleanliness and proper sanitation
• Utilizes specification sheets to prepare daily preparation requirements, maintains par levels of necessary items
• Prepares and manages creation of new menu items
• Ensures attractive, consistent presentations of food items, both buffet and plated
• Interacts/supervises line cooks to monitor quality, presentation and consistency of food items prepared
• Handles all needs and accommodates customer requests in a timely manner
• Sets up, re-stocks, maintains, and cleans food preparation areas
• Responsible for ensuring presentation standards are meet for all hot and cold items
• Reads and interprets recipes
• Conducts product inventories, ordering and receiving of product
• Responsible for team maintenance of grooming standards
• Responsible for team adherence to standards for sanitation and safe food handling
• Responsible for all opening and closing kitchen procedures

Benefits

• Cellphone Allowance
• Incentive Eligible
• Get Paid Daily
• Paid Time off & Holiday Pay
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, 401K
• HSA/FSA Plans -with employer contribution
• Referral Bonus
• Discounted Lodging, Dining, Spa, Golf, and Retail
• Employee Assistance Program
• “Columbia Cares” Volunteer Opportunities
• Committee Participation Opportunities
• Task Force Work Opportunities
• Online Learning Platform to Help You Grow!
• Third Party Perks (Including discounts on Pet Insurance, Rental Cars, Movie and Concert Tickets, Theme Park and Attractions & so much more)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: Associate degree