Head Chef

Job Title: Head Chef
Job Locion: Setle-USA-98188
Work Locion Type: On-Site
Salary Range: $90,000.00 - 105,000.00 per year

Since 1942, SkyChefs has taken culinary excellence to new heights. As a trusted partner to the nions leading airlines and retailers, we proudly deliver millions of meals and exceptional service experiences every year across 43 sites throughout the United Stes. Built on a legacy of operional excellence, culinary expertise, and continuous innovion, we are committed to setting the industry standard in aviion culinary, airline services, last-mile logistics, and retail commerce. From the kitchen to the runway, our teams work together to deliver quality, reliability, and service every altitude. Our people are the heart of everything we do. At SkyChefs, a career is more than a job its an opportunity to grow, lead, and make an impact in a fast-paced, team-driven environment. Join Americas first, foremost, and finest and take your career to new heights.

The Head Chef collabores closely with the Executive Chef to ensure exceptional daily food production our Customer Service Center (CSC). Every dish reflects authenticity, adheres to company standards, and meets both menu specificions and customer expections.

As the Executive Chefs trusted partner, the Head Chef also assumes full operional leadership in their absence, maintaining seamless kitchen operions and consistently high standards.

• Supports all food production activities in the Hot and Cold Kitchen in responsible CSC which include but not limited to the following.
• Identifying deviions in inventories and production, inities countermeasures if necessary
• Supports the controls and adjust of production plans, estimes consumption of food and equipment required to execute the daily production.
• Ensures compliance of recipe specificions and conducts sense-checks (Gold Standards)
• Participes in the development of food products and menus as needed.
• Must be aware of content in cering manuals; updes and distributes them within responsible CSC
• Supports the cost controlling of the budget, personnel and merial costs
• Participes in menu presentions internal and external
• The coordinion and controls countermeasures in the production in case of customer complaints
• Helps to develop and support existing training stregy and training plans for kitchen staff in responsible CSC
• Represents kitchen and kitchen staff in front of external stakeholders
• Actively researches and incorpores industry innovions and emerging food trends, ensuring continuous alignment and collaborion with Design Chefs.
• Participes in marketing activities as needed
• Ensures quality of goods received
• Guarantees tidiness in food storage in the responsible CSC is maintained and first in - first out principle is followed
• Guarantees adherence to hygiene, health and safety standards and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) regulions in responsible CSC
• Ensure th the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed and directed
• Guide, motive and develop the subordine employees within the Human Resources Policy
• Make the company's values and management principles live in the department(s)
• Implement and control the cost budget in the area of responsibility; initie and steer corrective actions in case of deviions
• Participe and support company sponsored initiives such as Global Quality Standard (GQS), HACCP, Lean Manufacturing
  

• Five years of experience in commercial cooking.
• Apprenticeship or Graduion from an accredited culinary school
• Additional certificions (e.g. diet chef, industrial chef, design chef,) or equivalent professional experience preferred
• Certificion with the American Culinary Federion a plus
• Knowledge of food and hygiene regulions (example: HACCP)
• Good communicion and organizional skills
• Service oriention
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office and Windows-based computer applicions
  

LSG Sky Chefs is an EEO and Affirmive Action Employer of Women/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.