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Kitchen Manager / Sous Chef
Wells, Maine | $75,000–$80,000 | Full-Time
Looking for a culinary leadership role where you can still actually cook? This is an opportunity for a hands-on chef to lead a creative, high-energy kitchen while having real input into seasonal specials, artisan pizza, and the overall culinary direction.
This is not a desk-based management role. You'll work alongside the team during prep and service while developing cooks, improving execution, and keeping the kitchen running at a high level.
Benefits and Compensation
- $75,000–$80,000 annual salary
- Paid time off
- Dining discounts
- Meaningful creative input into menus and specials
- Opportunity to develop and mentor a culinary team
- Hands-on role that keeps you connected to cooking and service
- Creative, chef-driven environment
- Opportunity to influence kitchen systems, workflow, and culinary direction
Requirements & Qualifications
- 3+ years of kitchen management, chef, or culinary leadership experience
- Current ServSafe Certification
- Strong cooking fundamentals and scratch-cooking experience
- Experience training and developing kitchen staff
- Working knowledge of food cost, purchasing, inventory, scheduling, and labor management
- Willingness to actively cook, prep, and work service alongside the team
Must Haves
- Lead daily execution across an integrated kitchen that includes a permanently on-site food truck, indoor prep kitchen, and kitchen extension
- Develop seasonal specials, menu features, and creative food offerings
- Coach cooks to improve technique, consistency, speed, and ownership
- Coordinate production and prep between multiple kitchen work areas
- Maintain consistent standards for flavor, presentation, quality, and execution
- Identify opportunities to improve kitchen organization, systems, workflow, and efficiency
- Balance creativity with food cost and operational execution
Preferred Background & Skills
- Artisan or wood-fired pizza experience
- Chef-driven or elevated casual dining background
- Scratch-kitchen experience
- Experience working with local or seasonal ingredients
- Food truck experience
- Menu development and recipe creation
- Experience building or developing culinary teams
- Comfortable working in an entrepreneurial, creative environment
JOB ID: 182549
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Rob McDermott