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Mather Place
Mather Place (Wilmette, IL)
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Bring your culinary leadership to Mather Place, Wilmette’s premier independent living community, where exceptional food, warm hospitality, and meaningful connections come together. Our vibrant community features two year-round restaurants and an inviting outdoor restaurant during the warmer months.
From Mediterranean-inspired cuisine complemented by a curated selection of wines and handcrafted cocktails and mocktails, to an all-day casual destination offering innovative American comfort cuisine cooked to order, our restaurants provide variety, creativity, and memorable experiences.
As the Sous Chef
, you will play an essential role in bringing these experiences to life through fresh ideas, thoughtful execution, and regular menu rotation. This is a highly visible, hands-on leadership opportunity reporting to our Executive Chef and supporting the daily supervision, training, and development of our Cook and Utility Steward team.
We are looking for a collaborative culinary professional with five or more years of experience preparing a variety of foods in varying quantities in a supervisory capacity, strong communication and delegation skills, and the ability to make independent decisions. Formal culinary training and experience supporting varied dietary needs are preferred.
This is a full-time, salaried position requiring flexibility to work weeknights, weekends, holidays, and participate in the Manager on Duty rotation. While schedule flexibility is important, this role offers no late nights.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Prepares and ensures the consistent preparation and timely delivery of quality food to residents, guests, family members and staff.
Ensures adherence to safe food handling, proper personal hygiene, and sanitation procedures, according to Health Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) guidelines.
Provides on-going supervision and training of kitchen staff.
Assists with creation of menu rotation according to guidelines; secures needed food items and supplies within approved departmental budget.
Monitors food production to minimize waste and over production.
Ensures consistent adherence to recipes, tracking additions and changes as necessary.
Coordinates and assists with holiday and theme meals.
Assures timely and accurate documentation including required production and temperature logs.
Monitors daily and weekly cleaning assignments and ensures proper use and cleaning of equipment and supplies.
Assures consistent and appealing garnishment of plate presentation.
Provides hands-on support as needed to ensure efficient operations.
Establishes, operationalizes, engages team members in, and sustains a Quality Assurance Process Improvement process.
SENSORY REQUIREMENTS
Tactile, tasting, smelling, near vision, peripheral vision, and color vision.
Compensation
$67,250 — $72,000 USD
Mather Place is an independent living rental community for those 62 and better, located in the heart of Chicago’s North Shore in Wilmette, Illinois—a short walk from Old Orchard shopping center. Mather Place includes 179 independent living apartment homes, as well as two restaurants, a fitness center, an art studio, a library, and more.
Mather Place is located at 2801 Old Glenview Road in Wilmette.
Based in Evanston, Illinois, Mather is a unique, non-denominational, not-for-profit organization founded in 1941. Dedicated to developing and implementing Ways to Age Well
SM
, we create programs, places, and residences for today’s young-at-heart older adults. Mather has received a national certification as a Great Place to Work
®
, and has been selected as a Nation’s Best and Brightest in Wellness Award recipient four years in a row.
Mather is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to an inclusive workforce. Candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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