Sous Chef - Dining

Sous Chef Opportunity At The DuPont Country Club

The DuPont Country Club, nestled within the rolling hills of the historic Brandywine Valley, is one of the premier venues to promote leisure activities through championship caliber golf courses, state of the art tennis facilities, pools and an updated fitness center. Elegantly decorated rooms, magnificent natural surroundings, customized event planning and impeccable service make any event at the DuPont Country Club truly a special occasion. The DuPont Country Club is currently looking for a full-time Sous Chef to join our team and focus on providing the highest quality of service for our membership in our 1920 Restaurant and Legends Bar and our outlets. The Sous Chef will ensure the daily processes of the kitchen are maintained at a high level to meet members expectations. A Sous Chef is responsible for providing supportive leadership to kitchen staff throughout food service as well as working a station in operations.

The duties include assisting our Executive Chef in monitoring kitchen activities, expediting orders to ensure quality and taste, presentation and taking on additional responsibilities in the absence of our Executive Chef.

A comprehensive and competitive benefits package including health, dental, vision, 401K, paid time off and more is offered for this position!

The successful candidate will have/be:

• Culinary Degree preferred
• Certificates, licenses and registrations required: ServSafe preferred
• Proper knife skills and ability to multitask a must
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Taking charge of kitchen opening, closing and other side duties as directed by the Executive Chef
• Ensuring kitchen staff adhere to set standards, procedures, department rules and sanitation requirements

Duties and responsibilities:

• Working a station
• Ensures food is cooked in a timely manner
• Delegates tasks to kitchen staff (Cooks and Cooks' Assistants)
• Ensures appealing plate presentation
• Supervises Cooks and assist as needed
• Slightly modifies recipes to meet customers' needs and requests (e.g. reduce salt, remove dairy etc.)
• Monitors food stock and places orders
• Checks freshness of food and discards out-of-date items
• Experiments with recipes and suggests new ingredients
• Manages inventory
• Ensures compliance with all health and safety regulations within the kitchen area
• Required to supervise in high-quality, volume-oriented environment
• Passionate culinarian with great palette and sense of presentation
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and work well in environment with time constraints
• Ability to troubleshoot effectively
• Detail-oriented with good organizational skills, performing work accurately and efficiently
• Demonstrated excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Ability to develop, implement and maintain systems for culinary staff
• Ability to effectively train and develop staff and build team morale
• Ability to hold others accountable for following company standards and procedures
• Ability to innovate and implement new ideas
• Demonstrated effective leadership skills including delegation skills
• Ability to meet budgets including labor, food and applicable direct operating costs
• Ability to work flexible schedule to accommodate business levels
• This position requires flexible hours including Nights, Days, Weekends and Holidays

Supervisory responsibilities:

• Directly supervises 5-10 employees within the department