Restaurant Chef - Glacier National Park
- Columbia Falls, MT
- $1,976 per month
- Temporary
- Full-time
Overseeing kitchen operations, including menu planning, food preparation, and ensuring high-quality standards are met. This role involves leading the kitchen staff, maintaining sanitation practices, and providing excellent customer service while actively participating in meal service to ensure a seamless dining experience.The Details:
Position Type: Seasonal
Season Dates: September through October 2025
Pay: Starting at $1,976 bi-weekly
Schedule: Typical schedule is 40 hours, 5 days per week (may include weekends, evenings, and holidays)Why Glacier National Park?
We are a welcoming community who work hard, share a real passion for the environment, and enjoy crafting memorable experiences for our guests. As part of the Xanterra Travel Collection®, we are an authorized concessionaire in Glacier, and proud stewards of the park.Life in Glacier:
- Free Employee housing (dormitory-style or RV site) and on-site employee meals (cafeteria-style)
- Free on-site laundry facility, employee shuttle service, Wi-Fi (limited bandwidth)
- Fast-paced, exciting work environment with plenty of upward mobility and growth opportunities
- Meet people of all ages from all over the country and world
- The adventure of a lifetime!
- Employee Assistance Program
- Wellness Program
- Learning and Development Program
- Free Glacier National Park pass
- Free Red Bus Tours (if available)
- Retail, Lodging and Travel Discounts
- Planned employee trips and activities
- 15% Verizon service/products discount
- $350 Referral Bonus Program
- Maintain and enforce established Xanterra standards of sanitation throughout the BOH operations.
- Establish and maintain open lines of communication with the other members of the Food & Beverage team and with each supervisor within the BOH operation and the hourly employees.
- Review punch detail reports in Kronos and approve payroll on a daily basis.
- Ensure that adequate pars of inventory items are maintained, adjusted and reacted to as business levels dictate.
- Order food through Cloud Suite, approve invoices, and generate requisitions and transfers as needed.
- Hands-on culinary leadership role includes being on the floor 100% of the time during a meal service period to observe, monitor and follow-up in all areas of the BOH and FOH operations on a daily basis.
- Ensure that all stations are adequately supplied with production needs to serve for any meal period. Ensure the quality as well as the quantity.
- Accept responsibility for your BOH operations to be in complete readiness to open punctually for every meal period and serve every menu item for the length of that period.
- Follow and enforce Company and departmental environmental and safety practices, policies and procedures.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Culinary Degree or ACF Chef de Cuisine Certification is desired.
- Must have a working knowledge of all BOH positions; equipment; and understanding of administrative duties, production records, inventories, scheduling, purchasing and receiving.
- Ability to lead the restaurant's BOH team toward the goal of providing excellent guest service in an efficient manner.
- Ability to remain calm in a fast-paced, high stress environment.
- Managers ServSafe Food Handlers certificate will be required. Class will be available while at property.
- Must be able to stand for long periods of time, approximately 10 hours.
- Must be able to walk for long periods of time.
- Must be able to lift and carry a minimum of 50 pounds.
- Must be able to bend, stretch, and reach for extended periods of time.