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Sous Chef
9/11/2025
The Sous Chef is responsible for overseeing daily kitchen operations and ensuring food quality standards are met. This includes training staff, maintaining kitchen security, and ensuring compliance with health and safety codes.
Salary
59000 - 68300 USD
Working Hours
40 hours/week
Company Size
10,001+ employees
Language
English
Visa Sponsorship
No
About The Company
HelloFresh is on a mission to change the way people eat, forever!
From our 2011 founding in Europe’s vibrant tech hub Berlin, we’re evolving from the world’s leading meal kit company to the world's leading food solutions group. We delivered 243.3 million meals and reached 7.5 million active customers around the world in Q3 2022.
HelloFresh Group consists of six brands that provide customers with high quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. Every ingredient needed for our meals are carefully planned, responsibly sourced and delivered to your door when it’s most convenient for you. Only HelloFresh gives you the tools to achieve something delicious every day.
Making a meal a delicious achievement - not just fuel for your day - takes a lot of work and smart people. From Designers and Copywriters to Data Scientists and DevOps Engineers, to potato farmers, pasta makers and the people who ensure every box is perfectly packed for every customer, we’re collectively disrupting the food supply chain and the multi-trillion-dollar food tech industry.
Our more than 21,000 high-performing and ambitious employees across the globe from New York to Berlin, London to Sydney and Toronto to Milan enjoy a number of benefits including flexible working arrangements, discounts on our boxes, health and well-being and learning and development programs.
We’re always looking for quality ingredients to perfect our recipe, so join us now! https://www.hellofresh.com/careers/locations
About the Role
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<p><strong>Sous Chef</strong></p>
<p><strong>Factor_ </strong>a brand of HelloFresh is seeking an experienced Sous-Chef responsible for overseeing the daily kitchen operations. This role will ensure that all food prepared meets the highest quality standards and follows all SOP's and company practices. </p>
<p><strong>You will...</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Be responsible for training, coaching, and developing hourly kitchen staff</li>
<li>Maintain security and upkeep of kitchen, including equipment, food, and supply inventories</li>
<li>Planning energy conservation procedures in the kitchen</li>
<li>Ensure the kitchen operates alongside state and federal health and safety codes</li>
<li>Maintain standards for food storage, rotation, quality, and appearance.</li>
<li>Balance quality, productivity, cost, safety and morale to achieve positive results in all areas</li>
<li>Work to continuously improve processes, working closely with other departments to execute plant-wide initiatives</li>
<li>Manage departmental performance measures, including visual controls, and provide regular progress reports to the Chef de Cuisine during the shift</li>
<li>Manage department priorities as situations arise</li>
<li>Perform accident investigations and notify management as appropriate</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>You are…</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Able to train and develop a large group of employees and manage an active kitchen</li>
<li>A problem solver </li>
<li>Results Driven </li>
<li>Able speak to employees with tact and diplomacy </li>
<li>Able to multitask - tracking/monitoring recipe development and maintaining productivity</li>
<li>Computer literate to input information into the computer</li>
<li>Able to take direction and relay information to employees</li>
<li>Comfortability in being exposed to hot, cool and/or cold environment (30º - 70º)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>At a minimum, you have...</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Required: High School Diploma or GED or related work experience</li>
<li>American Culinary Federation chef certification preferred</li>
<li>1-3+ years’ experience in commissary kitchen and high-volume food preparation</li>
<li>Fluent in Microsoft Office and Google Suite applications</li>
<li>Must be able to read, write and speak English. Bilingual in Spanish a plus </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>You’ll get… </strong></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Competitive salary, 401k with company match that vests immediately upon participation, and company equity plan based on role</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Generous PTO, including sabbatical, and parental leave of up to 16 weeks</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Comprehensive health and wellness benefits with options at $0 monthly, effective first day of employment</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tuition reimbursement for continuing education</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Up to 75% discount on subscriptions to HelloFresh meal plans (HelloFresh, Green Chef, Everyplate, and Factor_) </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Access to 7 different Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) including those for BIPOC, women, veterans, parents, and LGBTQ+</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inclusive, collaborative, and dynamic work environment within a fast-paced, mission-driven company that is disrupting the traditional food supply chain</span></li>
</ul>
<p>This job description is intended to provide a general overview of the responsibilities. However, the Company reserves the right to adjust, modify, or reassign work tasks and responsibilities as needed to meet changing business needs, operational requirements, or other factors.</p>
<p><strong>#Factor #JD1008</strong></p>
<p></p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">Illinois Pay Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$59,000</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$68,300 USD</span></div></div></div>
Key Skills
TrainingCoachingProblem SolvingResults DrivenMultitaskingComputer LiteracyCommunicationFood SafetyInventory ManagementProcess Improvement
Benefits
Competitive Salary401k With Company MatchCompany Equity PlanGenerous PTOComprehensive Health And Wellness BenefitsTuition ReimbursementDiscount On SubscriptionsAccess To Employee Resource Groups
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