Director of Dining Services / Executive Chef

Aramark

Philadelphia, PA
7 days ago

Highlights

As our Director of Dining Serevices / Executive Chef, you'll bring strong culinary expertise and operational leadership to a senior living dining program with three full-service restaurants. Beyond the kitchen, you'll manage food purchasing, inventory, menu costing, and financial performance while building strong relationships with client leadership and residents.

Numbers & Facts

Location	Philadelphia, PA
Industry	Food and Beverage Production
Company Size	10,000 employees or more
Year Founded	1936
Website	https://www.aramark.com/

Description

Job Description

Title: Director of Dining Services / Executive Chef

Requisition #: 683985

Location: Philadelphia, PA, US

Career Area: Culinary

Information at a Glance

Job Description

As our Director of Dining Serevices / Executive Chef, you'll bring strong culinary expertise and operational leadership to a senior living dining program with three full-service restaurants. Approximately 60% of your time in the kitchen, working alongside the existing team to improve food quality, consistency, and daily execution. You'll use your culinary experience to strengthen kitchen standards, coach, and develop employees, and ensure quality ingredients are prepared and served to the highest standards. Beyond the kitchen, you'll manage food purchasing, inventory, menu costing, and financial performance while building strong relationships with client leadership and residents. This is a hands-on role for someone who knows how to run a kitchen, understands the business behind it, and can balance culinary excellence with strong operational and financial results.

This is a full-time, on-site position based in Pennsylvania.

Job Responsibilities

Elevate Culinary Standards

Maintain high standards for food quality, preparation, presentation, and consistency.
Work alongside the culinary team to improve daily kitchen operations and food service.
Support menu planning and execution, balancing quality, resident preferences, and food costs.
Ensure food safety, sanitation, and kitchen procedures are consistently followed.

Strengthen Operational Performance

Manage food purchasing, ordering, and inventory to ensure quality ingredients and control costs.
Monitor food costs, menu costing, waste, and budget performance.
Identify opportunities to improve kitchen efficiency and operating practices.
Partner with client and operational leadership to solve problems and maintain service during dining transitions.
Build relationships with residents and use their feedback to improve the dining experience.

Coach and Develop the Team

Coach, train, and mentor culinary employees through hands-on guidance.
Demonstrate proper food preparation techniques and kitchen best practices.
Identify skill gaps and help the team improve quality, consistency, and execution.
Work collaboratively with existing kitchen leadership to reinforce standards and expectations.

The responsibilities outlined above are intended to describe the primary functions of this role and are not intended to represent a comprehensive list of all duties and responsibilities. Additional responsibilities may be assigned based on business needs.

Qualifications

Required:

Minimum of 4 years of hands-on experience in a professional kitchen.
Experience managing food purchasing, inventory, food costs, and kitchen operations.
Strong knowledge of food preparation, quality standards, and food safety practices.
Experience training, coaching, and developing culinary teams.
Strong communication and relationship building skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with clients and kitchen staff.

Preferred:

Culinary degree or equivalent formal training.
Certified Dietary Manager CDM certification.
Previous culinary or food service leadership experience in senior living, hotels, country clubs, or upscale dining.

About Aramark

Our Mission

Rooted in service and united by our purpose, we strive to do great things for each other, our partners, our communities, and our planet.

At Aramark, we believe that every employee should enjoy equal employment opportunity and be free to participate in all aspects of the company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, pregnancy, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military status, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by applicable law.

About Aramark

The people of Aramark proudly serve millions of guests every day through food and facilities in 15 countries around the world. Rooted in service and united by our purpose, we strive to do great things for each other, our partners, our communities, and our planet. We believe a career should develop your talents, fuel your passions, and empower your professional growth. So, no matter what youre pursuing - a new challenge, a sense of belonging, or just a great place to work - our focus is helping you reach your full potential. Learn more about working here at http://www.aramarkcareers.com or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

About Company

We focus on enriching and nourishing the lives of millions all over the world, providing a wide range of services—food, facilities and uniforms—to a diverse group of clients in 19 countries. We serve world champion sports teams, Fortune 500 companies, state-of-the-art healthcare providers and the world’s leading educational institutions. And every day, we dream of ways to do it better through our commitment to innovation and our passion for excellent customer service.

Innovation inspired by you
The better we know the people we serve, the greater the experiences we can develop. Whether it’s food service, facilities or uniforms, our proprietary programs allow us to understand the wants and needs of our audiences.

Armed with that knowledge, our Service Stars spring into action, combining insights and ingenuity to deliver moments that make a difference. These innovations could be game-changing campus transformations. Or a simpler, quicker way for you to access condiments at the ballpark. In any case, our innovations help create experiences that make an impact.

Beyond great service
Another key part of what makes us different is something we call service excellence.

To us, service excellence isn’t just about providing great customer service. It also means using time-tested practices and proven processes to get it right every day, everywhere, in everything that we do. And it's also about striking the perfect balance between doing something well over and over again and being responsive enough to the changing needs of clients and customers. It’s being open to the continuing cycle of innovation. Excellent, but never satisfied. Process-driven, but never locked in place.

We never stop thinking of new, better ways to get it right when our people impact the lives of clients and consumers every day.

Our people make all the difference—we make sure of it
Our commitment to hiring, training and rewarding the right people ensures that our employees are more than just hard workers. They’re Service Stars, and that means they can be counted on to go above and beyond, every single day.

We understand that many times our people are literally the face of your business. That’s why all 270,000 Service Stars receive continual access to professional development and proprietary skills training.

The bottom line is this: when you work with Aramark, you can be confident you’ll be collaborating with the right people with the right skills and the right attitude. That’s true whether it’s for strategic expertise, operational excellence or just serving a morning coffee. That’s our commitment as trusted partners and Service Stars. That’s the Aramark way.