# Executive Chef - Soho Farmhouse (Japanese Restaurant) **Company**: Soho House **Location**: Chipping Norton, England **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: executive **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Hospitality **Industry**: Hospitality **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sohohouseco/jobs/4935539101?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_3f4d367d-fd1 ## Description We are seeking an experienced Executive Chef to lead and operate the kitchen at Pen Yen, a Japanese restaurant located at Soho Farmhouse. As a hands-on culinary leader, you will be responsible for maintaining the quality, consistency, and standards of the food while supporting the development and performance of the kitchen team. Key responsibilities include: - Delivering a consistent, high-quality Pen Yen dining experience across sushi, sashimi, robata, and Japanese sharing dishes - Overseeing the day-to-day BOH operation, ensuring effective staffing, preparation, service, and execution of all dishes to Pen Yen and Soho House standards - Maintaining the highest standards of food quality, presentation, consistency, and attention to detail across the kitchen - Supporting menu development, seasonal dishes, recipe creation, food specifications, costing, and menu updates - Ensuring all dishes are prepared and executed according to agreed recipes, specifications, and presentation standards - Developing and training the kitchen team through on-the-job coaching and regular skills development - Creating a positive, collaborative kitchen culture and ensuring effective communication between the BOH and FOH teams - Managing kitchen schedules, labour, prep, production, service, opening, and closing procedures to ensure the operation runs efficiently - Ensuring all food safety, health and safety, hygiene, and allergy procedures are followed in line with Soho House and local regulations - Supporting purchasing, stock control, food cost, waste management, and supplier relationships to maintain quality and commercial performance - Managing events, special menus, and private dining experiences - Ensuring all kitchen equipment is maintained and reporting any maintenance issues - Managing and developing the kitchen team, including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and succession planning In return, we offer a competitive compensation package, including: - Weekly pay - Team meals whilst on shift prepared by our chefs - Every House Membership - 50% off Food & Drink, 7 days a week - Staff Room Rate; Any Bedroom, Any House, $100 a night - Private Health and Dental Care - Life Assurance - Day off on your birthday - Up to 50% Staff Discount on Cowshed & Soho Home - 2 days paid a year to support a charity of your choice - Free Counselling Sessions - Cookhouse & House Tonic: Our Cookhouse & House Tonic programmes offer unique food and drink trainings, events, and opportunities to inspire and educate - Continuous training to develop yourself personally and professionally - Team Events: From fitness sessions to cinema screenings and art classes, each month we hold a series of fun events which you can sign up to Requirements: - Minimum 4–5 years’ experience in a similar Executive Chef, Head Chef, or Culinary Senior Leadership role within a high-volume, quality-driven restaurant - Strong experience working with Japanese cuisine, ideally including sushi, sashimi, robata, or charcoal cooking - Culinary trained and passionate about Japanese food, ingredients, technique, and continuous development - Proven experience leading, training, and developing a kitchen team in a busy, high-volume environment - Strong knowledge of food quality, kitchen operations, food safety, HACCP, and local sanitation regulations - Experience managing labour, purchasing, stock, food cost, and waste control - A hands-on and operational leader who is comfortable working alongside the team during service - Strong communication and organisational skills, with the ability to build positive relationships across the kitchen and wider House - Experienced managing P&L’s, labour, purchasing, vendors, and quality control while providing results in revenue - Must be able to demonstrate competency as outlined in the training schedule and Club School - Must be able to work flexible shifts and schedules, including weekends and holidays as needed - Ability to take direction, work in a team environment, and autonomously ## Skills ### Required - Japanese cuisine - sushi - sashimi - robata cooking - food safety - HACCP - kitchen operations - labour management - purchasing - stock control - food cost - waste management --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sohohouseco/jobs/4935539101?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)