Sous Chef - Sage Lodge

Columbia Hospitality•Pray, MT

5d•$70,000 - $80,000•Onsite

About The Position

Sage Lodge is seeking a Sous Chef to oversee the day-to-day operations of the kitchen. This role involves complete responsibility for the kitchen, ensuring all work practices meet or exceed established standards. The Sous Chef will communicate daily with leadership, maintain high standards for food quality, presentation, handling, sanitation, and safety, and ensure timely follow-through on all client, guest, and team member requests. This position also involves assisting in the selection, supervision, training, development, scheduling, evaluating, disciplining, and counseling of staff, while demonstrating positive leadership characteristics. The Sous Chef will monitor food and labor costs, conduct daily walk-throughs of storage areas and food lines, utilize specification sheets for preparation requirements and par levels, and prepare and manage the creation of new menu items. Ensuring attractive and consistent presentations of food items, supervising line cooks, handling customer requests, and maintaining cleanliness of food preparation areas are key responsibilities. The Sous Chef is also responsible for ensuring presentation standards for all hot and cold items, reading and interpreting recipes, conducting product inventories, ordering and receiving product, maintaining team grooming standards, ensuring adherence to sanitation and safe food handling standards, and overseeing 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.
Must have a valid driver license.
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 Leadership 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

Salary Range: $70,000 - $80,000 DOE
Cellphone Allowance
Incentive Eligible
Paid Time off & Holiday Pay
Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, 401K
HSA/FSA Plans -with employer contribution
Values Based Culture (#OMGLIFE)
Culture Add (Creating Space for Fresh Perspectives)
Referral Bonus (Get Paid to Recruit)
Discounted Lodging, Dining, Spa, Golf, and Retail
Employee Assistance Program
“Columbia Cares” Volunteer Opportunities
Get Paid Daily
Committee Participation Opportunities (Fun, Philanthropic, Diversity/Equity/Inclusion)
Task Force Work Opportunities (Grow your career in idyllic locations across the globe)
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)