Join our wonderful Food and Nutrition Team at Piper Shores in our new expansion – The Meadows! Our new expansion, coming June of 2023, brings 52 apartments, cottages, and estate homes to complement our Oceanside campus. We are excited to welcome new opportunities to work at Piper Shores.

Come grow with us! The Chef Manager is a newly created position to oversee day-to-day operations for our brand-new restaurant in collaboration with the Executive Chef. We are looking for someone with excellent leadership skills that is able to bring advanced culinary creativity to our fine dining independent living restaurant. If you are looking for a position with better work-life balance while still being able to utilize your innovative skills and abilities in the culinary field, The Meadows at Piper Shores is for you!

Piper Shores is committed to hiring high-quality, professional, and caring individuals. Join our team, and help make a real difference

Essential Job Duties:

• Order materials, supplies, and ingredients based on demand.
• Participates in food preparation and cooking process.
• Oversee all kitchen personnel at the Meadows , including training new employees.
• Monitor inventory levels and perform weekly inventory assessments.
• Work with the kitchen leadership to price, change, and create new menu items.
• Store all food products in compliance with health and safety regulations.
• Maintain high standards of sanitation and complete daily and special cleaning tasks as outlined on the sanitation checklist.
• Meet daily with Executive Chef, Sous Chef and production staff, to go over daily menus and special functions to insure that proper amounts of foods are prepared and to insure.

Our Ideal Candidate – Qualifications:

• Ability to understand and follow instructions in English, communicate effectively, and perform simple arithmetic.
• Ability to understand measurements and conversions.
• One-year recent experience at a Retirement Community or Resort Restaurant facility as an Executive Chef or Sous Chef.

Piper Shores is dedicated to a policy of compliance with all federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination in employment. Piper Shores provides equal opportunity to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic in hiring, placement, promotion, salary determination, and all other conditions of employment.

Consistent with the Maine Human Rights Act and the American with Disabilities Act, applicants may request a reasonable accommodation if needed to participate in the application process. Please let a Human Resources representative know if you may need a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process.

Under Maine law, all employees working in congregate care facilities must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Influenza, and required Public Health vaccines such as MMR/TB/etc. COVID boosters are not required. A two-step TB test is required upon hire.