Sous Chef

Job Description

:Supervises culinary staff and provides culinary expertise in food preparation service, assuring proper production techniques, portion control and plating standards are applied according to menu, recipe, and department standards.

At Intermountain, we are not your standard institutional hospital food. Our hospitals employ professional chefs, culinary leaders, cooks, and nutrition care associates. We treat our hospitals like hotels, with restaurant-quality cafes and a guest-centric culture of hospitality for our patients and caregivers.

With high-quality food as medicine, we bring new life into the world of hospital nutrition services and are making a difference in the lives of our patients every day. We not only care for patients, but we also care for and about our colleagues, which is why we offer many culinary and healthcare career opportunities.

Work Schedule & Pay

• Sous Chef to support Catering, Retail, Training & weekend support
• Work Schedule: 40 hours per week
• Primary Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 7:00am-3:30pm
• Flexibility to support additional functions between 5:00am-6:00pm for catering needs
• Required: Flexibility to support business needs & cover weekends every 4-6 weeks
• Pay: Minimum $ - Max $ (dependent on years of experience)
• Benefits Eligible: Yes; Medical, Dental, Vision, Education Assistance. Click here for more details

Essential Functions

• Leads, guides, assigns work and follows up to ensure completion of assigned tasks by email, phone, and in person
• Supports coaching and corrective action within a disciplined environment and provides after hours supervision in the absence of the supervisor or Chef
• Maintains stations while supervising the operations and remains responsive to in person requests in addition to administrative tasks
• Mentors and develops staff using sound culinary principles
• Uses culinary knowledge, enhances product quality by contributing ideas to menu cycles and recipe development
• Prepares new recipes, documents result, and make recommendations for improvement
• Ensures recipe compliance and portion control
• Supports all inventory and ordering goods as needed; uses culinary math and historical data to calculate amounts
• Reports equipment problems and documents history of repairs
• Ensures proper food handling methods, product rotation and storage
• Ensures department compliance with department, hospital, and regulatory guidelines
• Ensures compliance with HACCP standards
• Participates in the training of staff and performs supervisory functions
• Enforces compliance with portioning and presentation standards

Skills

• Catering & Banquets, large batch cooking
• Food Handling
• Food Safety and Sanitation
• Food Production
• Follows Instructions
• Recipes – ability to understand, execute and develop
• Reading
• Organizing
• Communication
• Leadership

Qualifications

• Food Handler Permit (as required by State/County) or ServSafe certification is required by first day of work
• One or more year experience supporting catering & retail as a Cook
• One or more year of experience supervising a team of over 10 people
• Demonstrated ability to read and communicate effectively in English.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and part of a team.
• Demonstrated ability to utilize safe food handling techniques, in all applications
• Understands workflow, prioritizes, uses timelines, understands deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to provide exceptional customer service (preferred)
• Understands and prepares food according to modified diets using appropriate techniques where applicable (preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to utilize commercial cooking equipment (preferred)
• Five years supervisory experience, culinary degree, or certificate (Preferred)
• Inventory control, purchasing, costing, and forecasting experience (Preferred)​

Physical Requirements:

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with customers that require employee to communicate as well as understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer, phone, and cable set-up and use.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transport, pull, and push equipment. Will also work on hands and knees and bend to set-up, troubleshoot, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
• Remain standing for long periods of time to perform work.
• Tolerate extremes in temperature such as performing work at a grill or in a refrigerator and tolerate exposure to cleaning chemicals.

Location:

Intermountain Health St George Regional Hospital

Work City:

St George

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$ - $

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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