# Sous Chef

**Company**: The Hay-Adams
**Location**: Washington, D.C.
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full Time
**Salary**: USD 71,000-71,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Hospitality
**Industry**: Hospitality

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## Description

The Sous Chef oversees all aspects of the kitchen operation, providing functional assistance and direction, and coordinates functions and activities with other Food & Beverage department heads, in absence of Executive Chef.

Responsibilities:

- Supervise day-to-day functions of all Culinary employees, facilities, and costs

- Maintain state sanitation/health regulations and hotel requirements

- Ensure correct maintenance and use of equipment

- Meet with Executive Chef, Executive Sous Chef, and Chef de Cuisine to review assignments and business levels

- Complete opening shift duties, inspect cleanliness and working condition of tools and equipment

- Prepare menu items following recipes and yield guides

- Inform Chefs of foreseeable shortages

- Minimize waste and maintain controls to attain forecasted food cost

- Analyze quality levels of production and presentation

- Train and promote department Standards of Excellence

Qualifications:

- High School diploma or equivalent vocational training certificate

- Certification of culinary training or apprenticeship preferred

- Sanitation and Hygiene Certificate required

- 1-2 years of experience as Sous Chef in hotels with similar luxury style and standards

- ServSafe and Hygiene License

- Good working knowledge of English language

- Ability to communicate in Spanish is a plus

Benefits:

- Access to or eligibility for healthcare benefits

- 401(k) plan

- Short-term and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- Bonus plans

## Skills

### Required
- culinary operations
- kitchen management
- food safety
- team leadership

### Nice to have
- Spanish language
- pastry knowledge

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