Executive Sous Chef

The Executive Sous Chef oversees culinary operations across all outlets at Carmel Country Club, a premier platinum-level private club with multiple dining venues, banquet operations, and extensive member programming. This role ensures consistency, quality, financial discipline, and exceptional member experience across the entire culinary campus.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrate effective leadership skills including delegation skills.
• Ability to meet budgets including labor, food and applicable direct operating costs.
• The ability to operate a multi-outlet culinary operation, touching all areas daily and being present when/where necessary to support outlet management, the team and exceed member/guest expectations. 
• Must be an excellent communicator.
• The ability to lead, train, mentor and develop.
• Must have manager food handler’s certificate.
• Ability to work flexible schedule to accommodate business levels.
• Conduct hands-on teaching and training in commissary kitchen and at events,
• working closely with chefs and cooks, as well as other associates as applicable who work in BOH, and help with food preparation and execution.
• Train and educate associates on new menu items and changes in procedures for current menu items; monitor and hold associate accountable for implementing the changes
• Work with executive chef to develop production methodologies to increase efficiency, productivity, quality and/or consistency culinary.
• Review the menu each week with event chefs to discuss all details of events including menu, presentation, associate’s assignments and logistics, and work with banquet chef to develop party plans for each event.
• Work with pastry chef to ensure that desserts served are executed properly at events by culinary associates.
• Work with executive chef on on-going and quarterly menu development for our standard menus, internal menu tastings and photo shoots as well as recipes developing.
• Work with executive chef on going culinary educational training programs.
• Be involved in all client tastings, executing tastings along with Executive chef
• Oversee daily culinary operations across all club outlets
• Lead multi-outlet production and commissary execution
• Maintain food quality, consistency, and sanitation standards
• Develop weekly and seasonal features
• Train and mentor culinary leadership teams
• Manage food cost, labor, inventory, and purchasing
• Coordinate large-scale events and special functions

Qualifications

• 7+ years culinary leadership experience
• Strong operational, financial, and leadership skills
• ServSafe Certification required
• Physical Requirements
• Stand for extended periods
• Lift up to 50 lbs
• Flexible schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays

Learn more about Dining at Carmel

We exceed expectations by following the C.A.R.M.E.L. Way

Courtesy

Awareness

Relationship building

Making it special

Enthusiasm

Latitude

Our Chief Priorities

*Be the Premier Family Club in the Southeast

*Be an Employer of Choice in Charlotte

*Maintain Facility Excellence

*Provide a Safe & Secure Environment

*Deliver an Excellent Member Experience 

We find creative ways to get to a “Yes”  

Carmel is a club that offers what we can do as opposed to saying what we cannot do. Our team works together to find a way to accommodate member requests as long as the outcome is safe, legal, and courteous. Sometimes the hardest part of this is meeting the last requirement: courteousness. If the request will disrupt other members or negatively impact your team members, then we need to find a creative solution to offer the member. 

About Us

Carmel has earned recognition as a Platinum Club of America, a Five Star Private Club and was named the number 13 private club in America by Club Leaders Forum. Charlotte Observer named Carmel Top Places to Work in 2023. We appreciate all these fine recognitions, but we take our greatest pride in our family atmosphere and all the wonderful moments members have experienced and shared over the years, and the teamwork shared by our team members. Carmel is a symbol of tradition in Charlotte, a place where the whole family loves to be, and everyone feels more at home.

What we offer:
*Competitive wages paid biweekly
*Benefits for regular, full-time team members:
     Paid time off
     Cost-shared medical & prescription benefits 
     Club paid basic life insurance, long and short-term disability
     Dental, vision, life insurance, Health Savings Account
     401k with Club match for eligible team members
*Perks for all team members
     Daily meals, sodas, and ice cream located in a comfortable, air-conditioned environment inside the clubhouse
     Golf and tennis playing privileges
     Discounts on items in our Tennis and Golf shops
     Training and growth opportunities

Please note:
*We regret that we cannot contact all applicants directly. You will receive an auto response when your application has been received.  
*Offers of employment are contingent upon applicants consenting to, and successfully passing, a pre-employment screening. 
*We are a drug free workplace. 
*We comply with E-Verify procedures.
*If the position requires a team member to drive machinery or a golf cart, a valid driver's license must be presented, and a Motor Vehicle Report may be required. 
*We comply with state and federal regulations for youth employment. You must be at least 16 years of age to work at Carmel Country Club and have a youth certificate filed.    Learn more here: Youth Employment Certificate | NC DOL