Sous Chef

Brookdale is recognized by Newsweek in 2024 and 2025 as one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity, reflecting its commitment to fostering an inclusive and supportive work environment. As a nationwide leader in senior living communities, Brookdale operates 589 communities as of late 2025, offering gracious hospitality, neighborliness, and a home-like atmosphere that ensures comfort and engagement for residents and their families. The company emphasizes a warm, welcoming environment with entertaining events, personalized connections in groups and one-on-one settings, and exemplary clinical care standards. Brookdale also provides extensive corporate support and robust training programs, making it a great place to grow and develop professionally in the realm of senior living and care services.

The role being offered is that of a kitchen supervisor or assistant chef in one of Brookdale's community kitchens. This position is pivotal to ensuring smooth day-to-day kitchen operations, maintaining the highest food quality and safety standards, and delivering excellent meal experiences for residents. The kitchen supervisor assists the chef with managing food preparation staff and operations, maintains kitchen cleanliness adhering to sanitation and food safety standards, and coordinates the preparation of meals based on standardized recipes. The role ensures quality assurance in meal presentation and portion control, contributing to the overall dining satisfaction within the community.

Working in this role offers more than just competitive compensation – Brookdale promotes a healthy work-life balance with no late-night shifts, a reflection of their commitment to employee wellness. Both part-time and full-time associates are eligible for a variety of benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plans, employee assistance programs, employee discounts, referral programs, and early access to earned wages for hourly associates where applicable. Full-time employees have access to additional benefits such as paid time off, paid holidays, company-provided life insurance, adoption benefits, disability coverage, flexible spending and health savings accounts, tuition reimbursement, and optional voluntary benefits like accident and critical illness insurance.

Brookdale encourages veterans, transitioning active duty military personnel, and military spouses to apply. The company also supports associates who are working toward US citizenship by offering advancement of naturalization application fees for qualified individuals. This role requires individuals who are passionate about a career in culinary arts within a caring, community-focused environment, where they can grow both personally and professionally while contributing to improving the lives of senior residents.