Sous Chef

Company: 24 Carrots Catering and Events
Location: Costa Mesa
Posted on: November 1, 2024

Job Description:

Help manage the kitchen as needed or designated by executive chefs and take their place when they're not present.Key Responsibilities:

• Uphold the high standards of 24 Carrots' handbook and policies
• Represent and uphold 24 Carrots' core values: Trustworthiness, Collaboration, Service Excellence, and Dedication
• Maintain order, discipline, safety, and organization in the kitchen
• Manage non-supervisory positions in the kitchen department
• Ensure cooks stay on task and work effectively
• Maintain order and discipline with the cooks
• Conduct disciplinary action when necessary
• Understand federal, state, and local kitchen health and safety standards
• Ensure compliance with industry food safety standards
• Maintain a clean and sanitary working environment
• Work with special food handling requirements for certain dishes
• Prepare and serve food according to the restaurant's standards
• Read and understand banquet event orders
• Help with prep, oversee tastings, and order produce
• Organize and oversee social prep cooks and ensure food meets 24 Carrots' standards
• Fill in for all kitchen positions wherever help is needed
• Check out lead chefs for events and ensure they have all necessary food items and equipmentSupervisory Responsibilities:
  • Directly supervise kitchen staff members
  • Carry out supervisory duties in accordance with 24 Carrots' policies, handbook, and applicable laws
  • Oversee and direct employees, address complaints, and solve problems
  • Communicate job expectations, plan, monitor, and appraise job results
  • Coach, counsel, and discipline employees
  • Develop, coordinate, and enforce systems, policies, procedures, and productivity standardsRequirements:
    • Professional, enthusiastic, responsible, and dependable team player
    • High level of personal hygiene
    • Good organizational and management skills
    • Ability to work well under pressure
    • Superior oral and written communication skills
    • Ability to quickly identify and resolve problems
    • Meticulously detail-oriented
    • Strong computer skills
    • Adept at building teams
    • Self-motivated and willing to acquire new skills
    • Will to work in a collaborative environment with diverse technical backgrounds
    • Strong logic and reasoning skills
    • California Food Handler's card requiredEducation and/or Experience:
      • 2-4 years related experience and/or training
      • California Food Handler's card required within 30 days of hire
      • Reliable transportation and clean driving record requiredSkills:
        • Read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals and professional journals
        • Write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals
        • Effectively present information and respond to questionsMathematical Skills:
          • Add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure
          • Compute rate, ratio, and percent and draw and interpret bar graphsReasoning Ability:
            • Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables
            • Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule formPhysical Demands:
              • Frequently stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, talk or hear, and taste or smell
              • Regularly reach with hands and arms
              • Occasionally sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
              • Frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds
              • Regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
              • Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
              • Specific vision abilities requiredWork Environment:
                • Regularly exposed to wet or humid conditions, outdoor weather conditions, extreme cold, and extreme heat
                • Occasionally exposed to work near moving mechanical parts, high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, and vibration
                • Loud noise levels
                • Occasionally requires work exceeding 40 hours per week and flexibility to start and end shifts on little to no notice

Keywords: 24 Carrots Catering and Events, La Quinta , Sous Chef, Hospitality & Tourism , Costa Mesa, California