Executive Chef - University

Title:

Executive Chef - University of Alabama

Requisition #: 620776

Location:

Tuscaloosa, AL, US, 35401

The Executive Chef is a management position overseeing chef managers as well as hourly culinary staff, responsible for developing and executing culinary solutions to meet customer needs and tastes. The role offers a wide variety of culinary solutions and oversees and manages culinary operations to meet production, presentation, and service standards. The Executive Chef applies culinary techniques to food preparation and manages the final presentation and service of food.

• Ensures culinary production appropriately connects to the Executional Framework.
• Ensures proper culinary standards and techniques are in place for preparation of food items, including production, presentation, and service standards.
• Manages a culinary team, including chef managers and hourly staff, to ensure quality in final presentation of food.
• Trains and manages culinary and kitchen employees to use best practice food production techniques.
• Coaches employees by creating a shared understanding about what needs to be achieved and how it is to be achieved.
• Rewards and recognizes employees.
• Plans and executes team meetings and daily huddles.
• Completes and maintains all staff records including training records, shift opening/closing checklists and performance data.
• Develops and maintains effective client and guest rapport for mutually beneficial business relationships.
• Interacts directly with guests daily.
• Aggregates and communicates regional culinary and ingredient trends.
• Is responsible for delivering food and labor targets.
• Maintains a consistent focus on margin improvement; understands performance metrics, data, order, and inventory trends.
• Ensures efficient execution and delivery of all culinary products in line with the daily menu.
• Maintains the integrity of the standard Aramark food offer; responsible for always maintaining food quality and safety of items.
• Ensures full compliance with Operational Excellence fundamentals: managing waste, standard menus, recipes and ingredients through managing customer driven menus and labor standards.
• Understands end‑to‑end supply chain and procurement process and systems, ensuring only authorized suppliers are used.
• Possesses full knowledge and implementation of the Food Framework.
• Ensures accuracy of estimated food consumption for appropriate requisitions and/or food purchase.
• Ensures proper equipment operation and maintenance.
• Complies with Aramark SAFE food and Quality Assurance standards, occupational and environmental safety policies in all culinary and kitchen operations.
• Complies with all applicable policies, rules and regulations, including but not limited to those relating to safety, health, wage and hour.

• Requires at least 4 years of culinary experience.
• At least 2 years in a management role preferred.
• Requires a culinary degree or equivalent experience.
• Ability to multi‑task.
• Ability to simplify the agenda for the team.
• Requires advanced knowledge of the principles and practices within the food profession.
• This includes experiential knowledge required for management of people and/or problems.
• Requires oral, reading, and written communication skills.

Not specified in the posting.

Our Mission

Rooted in service and united by our purpose, we strive to do great things for each other, our partners, our communities, and our planet.

At Aramark, we believe that every employee should enjoy equal employment opportunity and be free to participate in all aspects of the company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, pregnancy, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military status, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by applicable law.

About Aramark:
The people of Aramark proudly serve millions of guests every day through food and facilities in 15 countries around the world. Rooted in service and united by our purpose, we strive to do great things for each other, our partners, our communities, and our planet. We believe a career should develop your talents, fuel your passions, and empower your professional growth.

Our focus is helping you reach your full potential.