RD Chef Apprentice I - Ready to Heat
RD Chef Apprentice I - Ready to Heat
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$ 40000 - 55000
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Job Description
Founded in 2013 Home Chef is the leading meal solutions company with both a retail and online presence. Available online athomechef.comand in retail at more than 2100 Kroger grocery stores Home Chef is committed to inspiring and enabling more people to cook simple delicious meals no matter how busy they are.
In 2023 Home Chef introduced a new brand Tempo! Tempo features a rotating selection of readytoheat meals delivered directly to your door. These meals are betterforyou versions of familiar favorites designed to save you time and reduce stress while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Our Tempo menu includes options that are proteinpacked fiberrich calorie and carb conscious ketofriendly and dietitianapproved.
Similar to our recipes we recognize that variety is the spice of life and therefore our employees also bring their uniqueness and color to our fantastic team. Were eager to work with humble team players and pragmatic nextlevel thinkers to innovate on Home Chefs offerings.
This role sits in the culinary department as part of the Tempo team. The RTH R&D Chef Apprentice will be asked to assist Tempo R&D chefs with key initiatives including but not limited to: supporting the development of compound ingredient formulations with chef guidance cooking to support R&D chef meal development preparing ingredients for product sampling editing production meals to ensure accuracy and assisting in basic photography work. This role will work in both the R&D kitchen at the Old Post Office in downtown Chicago IL and in the production kitchen in Bedford Park IL.
Detailed Responsibilities
Kitchen Operations
- Manage and maintain ingredients for scaling recipes at our Bedford Park production kitchen including taking a regular inventory placing orders for stock items and cycling out old or expired products
- Ensuring that needed items are properly transferred from the production kitchen to the R&D kitchen
- Own inventory of RTH ingredients in the R&D kitchen including knowledge of where items are located as well as tracking/storing items that are needed both near and long term
- Work with Culinary Apprentices to help manage the grocery process including making list shopping and putting away groceries as well as sourcing last minute items
- Helping to order kitchen supplies including speciality ingredients & kitchen equipment directly from suppliers production facilities and/or online sources
- Become a resource for crossfunctional teams
Compound Ingredient Formulation
- Bring at least 10 new or improved compound ingredients to approved status each month
- Cook bench top rough draft formulations of compound ingredients to dial in viability for production (flavor nutritionals ease of performance over time etc.
- Participate in compound ingredient feedback discussions and then implement that feedback into formulation and procedure improvements
- Refine ingredient amounts recipe wording and timing to ensure ingredient success
- Scale recipes to full R&D batches for testing and further refinements to the formulation
- Scale recipes to full production batches and test as needed at our production facility in Bedford Park
- Follow all sanitation and GMP rules in the production kitchen
- Respond to feedback from R&D and production chefs to continuously improve ingredient work and workflows
- Test new techniques to increase quality yield nutritionals and efficiency of compound ingredients
- Test recipe techniques and changes on an as needed basis
- Participate in setup and tasting for the new ingredient/product sampling process
New Meal Development
- Participate in production meal edit checks each week
- Assess accuracy of meal assembly photos on live menus and reshoot photos as needed
- Taste and provide feedback daily on all meals Tempo R&D chefs develop including red meat vegetarian soy seafood shellfish and pork (with limited exceptions)
- Analyze customer comments and make recommendations on ways to improve
- Help photo team and operate camera equipment under guidance of food photographer on an as needed basis
Team and Cross Functional Meetings
- Regularly attend and participate in all required Tempo culinary and crossfunctional team meetings
- Execute key project work and drive workstreams when necessary
This position requires 010 travel.
Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.
- Completion of a twoyear program such as an Associate degree: Culinary Arts degree
- 1 year experience with consumer packaged goods preferred
- 1 year professional cooking experience preferred
- Culinary background required
- Strong understanding of food
- High attention to detail: must adhere exactly to shopping list & Home Chef cooking specifications
- ServSafe certified or strong understanding of sanitary practices
- Required to carry bags of groceries through elevator daily (carts available)
More About Us
Perks and Benefits
- Candidates can experience Home Chef as a customer enter promo code PEOPLE30 for $30 off your first order!
- Medical dental vision life and disability insurance available
- Paid holidays sick time and vacation time
- 401k program
- Flexible spending accounts for qualified medical dependent care parking or transit expenses
How We Work Together
We are humble team players.
We are warm and gracious with team members and customers. We seek feedback to improve ourselves and respectfully listen to and accept input.
We are pragmatic nextlevel thinkers.
We come up with novel and unique ideas. We explore new strategies to avoid being constrained by conventional thinking.
We take ownership.
We approach ambiguous problems prepared to dive in get curious and learn more. We are resultsdriven always challenging ourselves to exceed goals.
Be at Home at Home Chef
We all show up authentically at Home Chef. Our team includes individuals with a variety of identities backgrounds and perspectives. You can trust that youll be able to bring your whole self to an inclusive and enjoyable workplace.
We welcome people of all races colors religions national origin or ancestry sex (including sexual identity) age physical or mental disabilities pregnancy veteran or military status unfavorable discharge from military service genetic information sexual orientation marital status order of protection status citizenship status arrest record or expunged/sealed convictions or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal state or local law.
Home Chef is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment Home Chef will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment please contact our People team at.
Home Chef offers the base salary range as posted below with the exact offer depending on factors such as geographic location experience skills and internal equity. While compensation is within the provided range it is not typical for offers to be made at the upper end. In addition to base salary Home Chef provides a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare coverage 401k match and paid time off.
Illinois Pay Range
$40000 $55000 USD
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Employment Type
Trainee
