Assistant Sous Chef - Gordan Ramsay's Hells Kitchen

Assistant Sous Chef

The Assistant Sous Chef supports the Sous Chef and Executive Chef in the daily culinary operations of Gordon Ramsay Hell's Kitchen, Lake Tahoe, ensuring exceptional food quality, consistency, and guest experience in a high-volume, fine-dining environment. This role plays a key leadership position in kitchen execution, team development, and operational excellence while upholding Gordon Ramsay brand standards.

The Assistant Sous Chef oversees food preparation and service, assists with menu execution, enforces recipes and plating standards, and ensures adherence to health, safety, and sanitation regulations. They help manage kitchen staff through hands-on leadership, training, and performance coaching, while maintaining a culture of accountability, teamwork, and excellence.

Additional responsibilities include assisting with inventory control, cost management, prep organization, and quality assurance, as well as stepping into supervisory roles during service as needed. The Assistant Sous Chef is expected to thrive under pressure, model professionalism, and consistently deliver elevated culinary experiences aligned with the Hell's Kitchen brand.

How You Will Create the Extraordinary

• Provides superior customer service, positively effects interactions with customers and team members, and has the resiliency to deal with difficult customers in all types of business conditions.
• Ensures full staff understanding of menu items and monitors food quality.
• Ensures all items are prepared from recipes as specified, maintain cost effectiveness and overall quality.
• Prepares and performs appropriate yield tests.
• Prepares requisitions for food ordering.
• Assists in the development of new menu items and daily specials
• Demonstrates proper care, storage, use and cleaning of all tools and equipment.
• Demonstrates competent product knowledge by correct storing and handling of all perishables, maintaining quality, security, value and integrity.
• Maintains adequate supply of menu items.
• Maintains assigned facility in a sanitary condition and equipment in operational condition.
• Inspects assigned areas and coordinates cleaning activities with the Kitchen Steward.
• Protects company assets against stealing, breakage and waste.
• Provides leadership and training to lower level cooks.
• Effectively communicates with other team members, including service and kitchen maintenance personnel.
• Continues to update cooking knowledge through books, magazines and discussions with the Executive Chef and Executive Sous Chef.

What You Will Need

• 2 year Culinary Arts Degree from an accredited program required or; Completion of approved ACF apprentice program
• Minimum of 2 years of cooking in a high quality/high volume establishment
• Ability to understand and respond to written order, recipes and directs in English
• Ability to work flexible time periods as required of a cook in a resort environment as well as be flexible enough to work in multiple outlets as needed
• Knowledge of breads, pastries, bakery production
• Ability to implement a la carte desserts
• Demonstrated expert skill level on all cook stations
• Demonstrated leadership skills with a focus on coaching for success; ability to mentor
• Ability to oversee the daily operations of the kitchen in the absence of a Chef
• Good communication skills
• Ability to uphold and demonstrate the highest level of integrity in all situations and recognize standards required by a regulated business
• Acts as a role model to other Team Members and always presents oneself as a credit to Caesars Entertainment and encourages others to do the same.
• Adheres to all regulatory, company and department policies and procedures

Additional Requirements

• Ability to correctly lift and transport objects weighing up to 50 lbs.
• Ability to work a minimum of 8 hours with appropriate mobility and endurance
• Ability to stand for 8 hours
• Visual range must include immediate environment
• Auditory range must include near and medium distances.
• Dexterity to use food preparation machinery
• Ability to use repetitive hand motion, holding and grasping
• Ability to tolerate extreme temperatures
• Positions that have contact with the public require the ability to work in a noisy environment, and may be exposed to guests who use tobacco products. Also, non-public contact positions may be required to enter public areas from time to time, in connection with their duties, and may be subject to the same environment.

About Us

At Harrah's and Caesars Republic Lake Tahoe, we want you as a partner in a win-win relationship. We want you to maximize your skills and talents to become the best you can be in your chosen field. We are proud to be one of the leaders in the hospitality business. One of the reasons our resorts have consistently received 4-Star and 4-Diamond Awards is because of the friendly, top quality people we hire to serve our guests. Harrah's and Caesars Republic Lake Tahoe are located on the south shore of magnificent Lake Tahoe, America's largest alpine lake and number one vacation destination. Visitors are drawn to Lake Tahoe's year round recreation, which includes skiing and snowboarding in the winter months and hiking, fishing, mountain biking, golf kayaking, sailing and a plethora of other recreation opportunities in the spring, summer and fall. Add to this, the lively, round-the-clock gaming and indoor entertainment, world-class amenities, which include two heated pools, a full-service health spa, various restaurants, including the world renowned, Hell's Kitchen, 1,254 rooms and suites plus excellent guest service, and you can understand why Harrah's & Caesars Republic are popular choices for travelers and vacationers throughout the year. Besides living in one of the Earth's most beautiful locations you will join a company that understands how to treat employees. As an industry leader, Harrah's believes a successful company starts with satisfied employees. Whether it's professional advancement or personal recognition, Harrah's provides accolades and incentives as you move along your career path.

Job Info

• Job Identification 83587
• Job Category Food and Beverage & Culinary
• Locations Harrah's Lake Tahoe