Executive Sous Chef (Hospitality)

Location: Sesame Place Philadelphia, United States. The role requires active work indoors and outdoors across park venues, travel to other park locations, evening and weekend availability, holiday work, and on-call coverage as needed.

Company

hirify.global Parks & Entertainment operates theme parks and entertainment venues, including Sesame Place.

What you will do

• Lead daily culinary operations across restaurants, carts, kiosks, specialty snacks, catering, and special events.
• Manage culinary management and back-of-house teams, including training new cooks and team members.
• Oversee food costs, recipes, menu design, seasonal items, food inventories, and warehouse stock.
• Maintain food safety, cleanliness, and operational standards across all culinary locations.
• Plan and execute event menus and collaborate with social media marketing on guest-facing food offerings.
• Cover Culinary Department Duty Manager responsibilities.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of culinary leadership experience.
• Advanced knowledge of food cost management, menu engineering, inventory control, and culinary food safety protocols.
• Strong supervisory, leadership, communication, organizational, multitasking, and time-management skills.
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Outlook.
• Valid driver's license required.
• Ability to stand, walk, move swiftly for several hours, lift up to 50 lbs, and work evenings, weekends, holidays, and on call.

Nice to have

• 3+ years of experience in a high-volume environment.
• Experience managing multiple culinary outlets.
• Experience running a culinary back-of-house P&L.
• Experience as a chef or sous chef in a theme park or amusement park.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced environment with a focus on guest experience and teamwork.
• Paid floating holidays and accrual-based paid time off.
• Complimentary park tickets and passes, plus discounts on food and merchandise.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, voluntary insurance, and 401(k) benefits.
• Dependent and health care flexible spending accounts, employee assistance, legal assistance, and tuition reimbursement.