Restaurant Executive Chef - Home Plate Club - PNC Park

Aramark • Pittsburgh, PA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Aramark is elevating the Home Plate Club at PNC Park into a refined, chef-driven dining experience that goes beyond traditional ballpark fare. This exclusive space blends Pittsburgh favorites and global cuisine. With curated culinary stations, seamless service, and modern amenities, the Home Plate Club delivers a premium, high-energy environment that redefines game-day hospitality at PNC Park. The Restaurant Executive Chef is a management position overseeing chef managers as well as hourly culinary staff, responsible for developing and executing culinary solutions to meet customer needs and tastes. Offers a wide variety of culinary solutions to meet customer and client needs and tastes. Oversees and manages culinary operations to meet production, presentation, and service standards. Applies culinary techniques to food preparation and manages the final presentation and service of food.

Requirements

• Requires at least 4 years of culinary experience
• Requires a culinary degree or equivalent experience
• Ability to multi-task
• Ability to simplify the agenda for the team
• Requires advanced knowledge of the principles and practices within the food profession.
• This includes experiential knowledge required for management of people and/or problems.
• Requires oral, reading, and written communication skills

Nice To Haves

• At least 2 years in a management role preferred

Responsibilities

• Ensures culinary production appropriately connects to the Executional Framework
• Ensures proper culinary standards and techniques are in place for preparation of food items, including production, presentation, and service standards
• Manages a culinary team, including chef managers and hourly staff, to ensure quality in final presentation of food
• Train and manage culinary and kitchen employees to use best practice food production techniques
• Coach employees by creating a shared understanding about what needs to be achieved and how it is to be achieved
• Reward and recognize employees
• Plan and execute team meetings and daily huddles
• Complete and maintain all staff records including training records, shift opening/closing checklists and performance data
• Develop and maintain effective client and guest rapport for mutually beneficial business relationships
• Interact directly with guests daily
• Aggregate and communicate regional culinary and ingredient trends
• Responsible for delivering food and labor targets
• Consistent focus on margin improvement; understanding performance metrics, data, order, and inventory trends
• Ensure efficient execution and delivery of all culinary products in line with the daily menu
• Maintain integrity of the standard Aramark food offer; responsible for always maintaining food quality and safety of items
• Full compliance with Operational Excellence fundamentals: managing waste, standard menus, recipes and ingredients through managing customer driven menus and labor standards
• Understand end to end supply chain and procurement process and systems, ensuring only authorized suppliers are used
• Full knowledge and implementation of the Food Framework
• Ensure accuracy of estimated food consumption for appropriate requisitions and/or food purchase
• Ensure proper equipment operation and maintenance
• Ensure compliance with Aramark SAFE food and Quality Assurance standards, occupational and environmental safety policies in all culinary and kitchen operations
• Comply with all applicable policies, rules and regulations, including but not limited to those relating to safety, health, wage and hour

Benefits

• Opportunities for professional growth and recognition
• Participate in the prestigious ProChef certification program at The Culinary Institute of America
• Showcase skills in the Aramark Culinary Excellence (ACE) competition
• Opportunities to grow, advance, and make a lasting impact in the culinary world
• Develop new skills
• Doing what it takes to get the job done make a positive impact for our employees and for our customers

What This Job Offers

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