Sous Chef - Spring Meadows

Monarch Communities at Spring Meadows leads the revolution of contemporary person-centric wellness senior living, designed for the next generation. A highly customized, curated, and an organic approach to wellness inspires everything we do. All members of our communities – residents, their families, and Monarch team members – influence the way we think, design, and create. Our vision and culture embody and celebrate those we serve.

The Sous Chef will be responsible for the preparation and serving of meals, sanitation of food service areas, accurate record keeping, receiving, rotating and inventory of products and regulatory compliance. This is a non-exempt, hourly position reporting to the Culinary Services Director.

Responsibilities and Duties: 

• Prepare and serving quality meals  
• Ensure special dietary needs are met and preparing texture modified food, as directed 
• Ensure compliance with all record keeping, food safety and risk management requirements 
• Monitor food preparation, storage and handling to ensure adherence with HACCP, labeling, and storage protocols to ensure compliance with all food service regulations and policies 
• Maintain accurate hot and cold food, refrigerator, and freezer temperature logs  
• Participates in and attends all in-service training as scheduled 
• Ensures compliance with all Federal, State, and local regulations, as well as community policies and procedures 
• Other duties as assigned 

• Maintains a current ServSafe certification or able to obtain ServSafe certification 
• Minimum 3 year job related experience including food preparation, full-line menu items and special diets and 1 year of leadersip experience 
• High school diploma or GED accepted 
• Competent in organizational, time management skills and demonstrate good judgment, problem solving and decision making skills 

Physical Abilities:

• While performing the duties of this job, the associate is often required to stand, walk, sit, use fine and gross motor skills, reach with hands and arms, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, talk, hear, and smell.  
• An individual in this position will be required to lift or carry weight in up to 50 lbs.. The associate must use proper body mechanics. 

Additional Benefits:

• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Medical Coverage
• Dental Coverage
• Vision Coverage
• Ancillary Benefits (Life/AD&D, Short Term Disability and Long Term Disability)
• Voluntary Life
• Flexible Spending Account
• 401(k) Retirement and Matching
• Employee Assistance Program
• Supportive Leadership
• Referral Bonuses
• And More!