Job Description:

Job Description:

Job Title

Chef de Cuisine

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a diversity of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with 96,000 other curious, creative 3Mers.

“At 3M, thanks to our culture where people feel like they belong, can grow and are appreciated, we are more than the sum of our parts. Our different perspectives and experiences help us solve some of the world’s toughest challenges together.” – Zoe Dickson, executive vice president and chief Human Resources officer at 3M

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military environments to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Chef de Cuisine, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by contributing to a talented culinary team working in a state-of-the-art kitchen tucked away in the pristine North woods. We provide breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner for groups varying between 20-50 people.  Staff meals are prepared and served daily for am and pm shifts.  We cook a variety of cuisines featuring local beef, chicken, lamb, wild game, fresh fish and seafood. We are currently dry-aging beef in house and working on starting in house charcuterie program. Our menus are product driven, and focused on using the best local, sustainable and seasonal ingredients available.

Chef de cuisine will be responsible for collaborating with the Culinary Services Supervisor and Team to create menus, design corresponding recipes, oversee and prepare those recipes, and manage the productivity of all kitchen employees, including line cooks, dishwashers, and if necessary, waitstaff. A chef de cuisine tracks the kitchen’s inventory, places orders, monitors equipment maintenance and condition, and ensures that a kitchen operates alongside corporate, state and federal environmental, health and safety codes and guidelines.

Primary Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Work with Culinary Services Supervisor to manage the flow of daily meal services which includes but is not limited to making sure service is on time, ensuring special dietary needs are met and assisting with service as needed.


• Oversee operational efficiencies and productivity of staff. This includes providing scheduling recommendations, complying with culinary staff break expectations, prep lists. 


• Provide “on-the-line” food production for daily guest meals and employee meals. 


• Create detailed production sheets and menu breakdowns/plans for each trip


• Submit daily food orders based on inventory levels.


• Collaborate with Culinary Services Supervisor and Team to train and educate all staff positions on new menu items and changes in procedures.


• Communicate daily job expectations (T1 Board) and ensure the staff are in clean uniforms and are presentable to be in guest view.


• Ensure the preparation of food is in accordance with sanitation and safety rules.


• Establish and comply with an equipment PM program to ensure that all equipment is in working order, and daily maintenance is being followed. 


• Expectation of leadership behavior.

This position may require:

• Extended hours


• Weekend work


• Working evenings


• Working on holidays as needed


• Standing for long periods of time


• Lifting up to 50 lbs. unassisted and over 50 lbs. assisted

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• High School Diploma/GED (completed and verified prior to start)


• Five (5) years cooking experience in a professional food service setting


• Two (2) years in a leadership role in a professional food service setting

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Degree Culinary Arts or Food and Beverage Management (completed and verified prior to start) rom an accredited institution


• Basic knowledge of Microsoft office, and Excel programs


• Strong interpersonal and communication skills


• Creative


• Self-motivated

Travel: None

Relocation Assistance: May be authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Additional Requirements: In this role, you may be required to enter healthcare or other third-party facilities. Those facilities may, in turn, require you to possess certain licenses, vaccinations, and/or other credentials or qualifications (collectively “prerequisites to entry”) for regulatory, safety, or other business reasons. Where applicable, 3M will help facilitate any necessary actions on your part to fulfill such prerequisites to entry, which may include, without limitation, background or medical screens, vaccinations, or verifications, and will cover any expenses related to the same. All information will be kept in accordance with applicable law and 3M policies.  In order to respond to the prerequisites to entry, 3M may share your information with the providers of medical screens, vaccinations, or verifications as well as the healthcare or other third-party facilities requiring the prerequisites to entry. 

Supporting Your Well-being 

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope. 

Resources for You 

For more details on what happens before, during and after the interview process, check out the Insights for Candidates page at 3M.com/careers. 

Learn more about 3M’s creative solutions to the world’s problems at www.3M.com or on Twitter @3M.

Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.

Our approach to flexibility is called Work Your Way, which puts employees first and drives well-being in ways that enable 3M’s business and performance goals. You have flexibility in where and when work gets done. It all depends on where and when you can do your best work.

Pay & Benefits Overview: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/careers-us/working-at-3m/benefits/

3M is an equal opportunity employer.  3M  will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

Please note: your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.

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