Executive Head Chef
About The Position
The Shoals Club, a premier private beach club on Bald Head Island, North Carolina, is seeking an experienced, polished, and highly motivated Executive Chef to lead its culinary operation. The club offers a diverse dining program across multiple venues, including fine dining, tapas-style, and casual poolside options, serving approximately 800 memberships and a significant number of guests annually. This role requires a hands-on culinary leader who can balance creativity, consistency, financial discipline, team development, and exceptional member service, aiming to elevate the dining experience to the standards of a Platinum-level private club.
Requirements
- Prior Executive Chef or senior culinary leadership experience in a high-volume hospitality environment.
- Fine dining and/or private club culinary experience required.
- Culinary Arts, Hospitality Management, or related degree required.
- Strong leadership, coaching, training, and team development skills.
- Proven experience managing food cost, labor budgets, purchasing, inventory, and waste controls.
- Ability to lead multiple dining outlets with different service styles and volume demands.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and leadership skills.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, seasonal, service-oriented hospitality environment.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in private clubs, luxury resorts, upscale restaurants, or high-end coastal hospitality operations.
- Experience leading both fine dining and high-volume casual dining operations.
- Experience with banquets, weddings, member events, and seasonal club programming.
- Familiarity with island, resort, seasonal, or remote-location logistics.
Responsibilities
- Lead all culinary operations for Shoals Club dining outlets, events, weddings, and member functions.
- Develop menus that reflect the Club’s coastal setting, member preferences, seasonal ingredients, and current culinary trends.
- Maintain exceptional standards for food quality, flavor, consistency, presentation, and execution.
- Elevate the fine dining experience at Aqua while maintaining efficient, high-quality execution at Latitudes and Sandbar Grille.
- Lead, mentor, train, and develop the culinary team.
- Build a positive, respectful, accountable, and professional kitchen culture.
- Manage food cost, labor cost, purchasing, inventory, production, and waste control.
- Collaborate with front-of-house leadership, events, purchasing, accounting, HR, and senior Club leadership.
- Ensure banquet and event menus are properly planned, costed, staffed, prepped, and executed.
- Maintain cleanliness, organization, food safety, and sanitation standards throughout all culinary areas.
- Support the continued advancement of the Club toward a Platinum-level private club dining experience.
Benefits
- Competitive salary based on experience.
- Monthly and annual bonus potential based on performance and operational goals.
- Temporary housing assistance may be available.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid Time Off.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Club perks and employee dining privileges.
- Professional development opportunities.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Beautiful coastal work environment on Bald Head Island.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
Associate degree
