Penn State Job Catalog

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Chef

Executive Chefs provide leadership, overall direction, and operational management of dining, catering, banquet, and retail kitchens. Responsibilities include developing and testing recipes, creating and updating menus, managing inventories, ensuring regulatory compliance, providing facility design and equipment purchase consultations, monitoring customer service, and supervising staff.

• Develop and test recipes; research worldwide cooking trends and food marketing; test, develop, document, evaluate, and implement necessary adjustments to innovative new dishes, concepts, and food programs; analyze recipes to determine menu item costs
• Plan and manage menus; restructure menus to reflect sustainability, market shifts, seasonal availability, student/customer preferences; create globally inspired menu selections and heritage month menus; create special occasion menus for weddings, parties, banquets, etc.
• Monitor, evaluate and provide facility design and equipment repair/obsolescence consultation; manage inventories; purchase food items and supplies; identify cost containment measures and maximize revenue sources
• Keep abreast of food safety, sanitation, and other regulatory requirements; develop operational changes, policies, and procedures; establish standards; develop and conduct training; ensure compliance
• Manage events and ensure a quality customer service experience for internal and external customers; interact with customers, guests, staff
• Direct and oversee investigations and problem resolution related to customer service, product quality, and personnel performance
• Lead, direct, hire, train, coach, supervise, schedule, and evaluate employees; recommend, plan, and coordinate professional development opportunities; adhere to Collective Bargaining Agreement provisions; participate in hearings/proceedings

Level:

– Senior Manager

Base Description:

– Manages direct reports where primary duty is the management of a working unit.

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates advanced skills in critical functions related to unit's success. Demonstrates advanced knowledge of emerging technologies and processes. Monitors completed work of others to ensure effectiveness and adherence to requirements. Sets clear expectations and holds team accountable. Establishes a shared team/unit vision. Demonstrates ability to evaluate and enhance team/unit practices that promote a strong commitment to inclusionary practices. Coaches others using appropriate strategies. Demonstrates diplomacy. Demonstrates ability to serve as liaison between senior-level management and staff. Resolves complex, controversial, or unprecedented issues and problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees large team or teams of individual contributors and/or supervisors/managers
– Leads a department or functional area

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Monitors and tracks large budgets
– Plans, forecasts, and/or develops budgets
– May approve budgets for specific area
– Typically has final signature authority for specific area

Problem Solving:

– Encounters highly varied and complex problems that impacts the team and possibly the unit
– Develops creative and/or novel approaches to resolve problems that are difficult in nature
– Independently resolves complex and/or unprecedented issues and problems

Independence of Action:

– Work results are not clearly defined
– Generally sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow
– Monitors completed work of others to ensure soundness of approach, effectiveness of meeting requirements, the feasibility of recommendations and adherences to requirements
– Delegates more advanced tasks to others

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– Collaborates closely with team members and various areas across the University
– Fosters collaboration between units and engages others' coordinated efforts to reach desired outcomes with broad scope

• Comp Grade – 13
• Minimum – $86,300.00
• MidPoint – $107,900.00
• Maximum – $129,500.00