Executive Sous Chef

The Executive Sous Chef will oversee daily culinary operations, with a primary focus on banquet production and event execution. The ideal candidate is a proven culinary leader with strong banquet experience, excellent organizational skills, and high-volume production knowledge.

What You Will Do

The Executive Sous Chef will lead banquet culinary preparation and service for meetings, conferences, weddings, social events, and other functions. They will review event orders, menus, and service details to ensure culinary readiness and coordinate banquet production schedules, prep lists, and staffing needs.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate is a proven culinary leader with strong banquet experience, excellent organizational skills, and high-volume production knowledge. They will support the Executive Chef in leading daily kitchen operations, maintaining food quality and consistency, and developing colleagues.

Requirements

• Previous Executive Sous Chef, Senior Sous Chef, Banquet Chef, Sous Chef, or comparable culinary leadership experience required
• Significant banquet culinary experience required, preferably in a full-service hotel, convention hotel, luxury hotel, or high-volume event environment
• Strong knowledge of banquet production, plated service, buffet service, receptions, large-scale prep, event timing, and high-volume culinary execution
• Experience supporting restaurants, outlets, in-room dining, or multi-outlet hotel culinary operations preferred
• Strong culinary technique, knife skills, food production knowledge, menu execution, and presentation standards
• Demonstrated ability to lead, train, coach, and motivate culinary colleagues
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple events, deadlines, menus, and operational priorities
• Ability to read and execute banquet event orders, menus, recipes, production sheets, and event timelines
• Strong understanding of food cost control, labor management, inventory, purchasing, waste reduction, and productivity
• Knowledge of health department regulations, food safety standards, sanitation practices, and kitchen safety procedures
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with culinary, banquet, event, stewarding, and hotel operations teams
• Ability to remain calm, focused, and solution-oriented during high-volume banquet service and time-sensitive events
• Culinary degree, apprenticeship, or equivalent professional training preferred
• Food handler certification or ability to obtain required certification
• Must be able to work a flexible schedule, including mornings, evenings, weekends, holidays, and event-based hours

Benefits

• Free room nights
• Discounted and Friends & Family Room Rates
• Medical, Prescription, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401K with company match
• Paid Vacation, sick days, new child leave, and personal day
• Paid Family Bonding Time and Adoption Assistance
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Free colleague meals during shift
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Discounts at various retailers - Apple, AT&T, Verizon, Headspace, and many more