West Village restaurant Libertine seeks a professional, hard-working and capable CDC to join and lead the team.

Libertine is a new French bistro opening in May of 2023 on an historic corner of the West Village. Serving updated riffs on traditional and forgotten regional French dishes alongside natural wine and producer-driven cocktails, Libertine aims to celebrate local Northeastern American agriculture through a distinctly Francophilic lens.

Overview:

This role will oversee all culinary and back-of-house operations including but not limited to collaborating with the partners on menu development, maintaining and improving current menu offerings, staffing, scheduling, and staff training, running kitchen service, maintaining and controlling all food and labor costs, minimizing waste, and ensuring the highest possible standards quality-wise, performance-wise, and culturally.

The CDC must supervise all phases of receiving, storing, preparing, producing, service, and sanitation. This role is expected to maintain quality, product consistency, food and labor cost controls, and assist in managing sous chefs and line level employees.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining standards of food quality
• Supervise and direct food preparation and production
• Directing cooks to ensure compliance with occupational, health, and safety standards
• Managing cooks and other kitchen personnel and coordinating their assignments
• Assures that all team members have all food items prepared to proper specifications in a timely manner
• Maintain kitchen in clean, organized manner, with all food items labeled and dated
• Assist in ordering and receiving necessary food products and supplies
• Ensures daily that the kitchen is staffed appropriately, the kitchen is clean, inventory levels are appropriate, and equipment is working properly
• Certify standards on equipment and work areas are maintained by implementing a preventative maintenance program 

Position Requirements:

• Advanced culinary skills including food preparation, sauce making and other cooking best practices
• Comfortable training, directing and supervising kitchen staff
• Strong interpersonal skills and problem-solving techniques; Professional, friendly, and punctual.
• Must demonstrate leadership skills, be a team-player and work well with others
• Strong time management and organization skills
• Attention to detail and consistency with implementing standards.
• Strong understanding of food safety and Department of Health standards
• Must have a Department of Health Food Handlers Permit

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the team member for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change.