Executive Chef 2 - Sodexo

As an aspiring Chef you want to enhance the lives of others.

Sodexo is seeking an Executive Chef 2 for Asbury Methodist Village, a large upscale continuing care retirement community located in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Asbury Methodist Village is among the nations largest continuing care retirement communities and offers unparalleled events, clubs, and programs. This community offers several dining venues including a fine dining restaurant with exhibition cooking. This position will report directly to the General Manager and will be responsible for daily dining service for our independent living residents and catering services. This is an excellent opportunity for a culinarian to provide high-end service to our residents. Candidates should be passionate, highly motivated, and enjoy client and resident interaction.

Sodexo offers a full array of benefits including paid time off, holidays, medical, dental, vision, 401K, and access to ongoing training and development programs, tuition reimbursement, plus health and wellness programs. This position starts with 3 weeks paid vacation and 3 personal days.

The successful candidate will:

• oversee the daily dining operations including menu planning and controls;
• ensure Sodexo Culinary Standards including recipe compliance and food quality;
• have high expectations for quality of food and presentation;
• have the ability and willingness to develop and train employees; and
• knowledge of Food Management Systems/Software is preferred.

Is this opportunity right for you? We are looking for candidates who have:

• a passion for culinary arts with a desire for creativity,
• prior experience with country club, restaurant and / or retirement living dining;
• experience with managing food and labor costs;
• experience supervising and training a culinary team with exceptional human resource and supervisory skillset;
• a good financial acumen and strong computer skills;
• an enthusiasm for working with a diverse set of people, are confident and warm;
• a positive approach to tasks with a can-do attitude and impeccable attention to detail.

Learn more about Asbury Methodist Village.

Sodexo offers fair and equitable compensation, partially determined by a candidate's education level or years of relevant experience. While the budgeted range for the position is posted, Sodexo salary offers are based on a candidate's specific criteria, like experience, skills, education and training.

Basic Education Requirement - Associate's Degree or equivalent experience
Basic Management Experience - 2 years
Basic Functional Experience - 2 years work experience in food or culinary services including restaurants, fast food, vending, catering services, institutional services, mall food courts, etc.

Sodexo is an EEO/AA/Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.