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**Job Purpose or Objective(s)** : The Chef de Cuisine - Fine Dining manages the daily operations of the fine dining entity to ensure food quality and guest satisfaction. You will report to the Executive Sous Chef.

Primary Tasks:

1. You will cook meals based on established recipes or customer requests and ensure meal quality and guest satisfaction.

2. Oversee fine dining food preparations and expediting of all food that go out to the guests.

3. Coordinate daily specials showcasing culinary skills and meal preparations for all the fine dining venue VIP events.

4. Develop balanced menus focused on a higher quality fine dining cuisine.

5. You will develop fine dining culinary team.

6. Coordinate and establish, with the sommelier, food and wine pairings.

7. Manage kitchen operations including organization of workloads, overseeing the preparation of food, managing inventory levels, and maintaining the cleanliness of the kitchen.

8. Manage quality, cost, waste, and distribution of all foods and other expenses for assigned operation.

9. Monitor work to ensure ServSafe guidelines are being followed.

10. Perform other tasks as may be assigned.

Requirements:

* Formal training at an accredited culinary institute or equivalent experience

* ServSafe Certification

* Handle multiple tasks and deploy available resources

* Analyze current performance trends and identify leading indicators for future trends

* Ability to enhance profitability, sustainability and creativity across all channels according to business strategy

* Good interpersonal, customer skills

* Have excellent communication skills both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate on different levels to include management, departmental, customer and associate levels

* Five (5) years’ experience as a Fine Dining Chef in a high volume Casino/Resort, Hotel or major restaurant chain

About the Choctaw Nation

The Choctaw Nation is the third-largest Indian nation in the United States, with over 200,000 tribal members and more than 11,000 employees. The first tribe over the Trail of Tears, historic boundaries are in the southeast corner of Oklahoma. The Choctaw Nation's vision, "Living out the Chahta Spirit of faith, family and culture," is evident as it continues to focus on providing opportunities for growth and prosperity.

Benefits

+ Free gym membership

+ Free access to employee health clinic

+ Free lunch for casino & resort associates

+ Earned wages access once per week for hourly Associates

+ Pet insurance

+ Paid vacation / sick time

+ Medical / Dental / Vision

+ 401(K) with company match

+ College tuition reimbursement

+ Short-term disability, long-term disability, and family leave

+ Employee assistance program

+ Employee prescription program

+ CNO Paid Life Insurance

+ Teladoc

+ On Site Dental Clinics (Jet Dental)

+ On Site Mammogram Services

+ Free diabetes and hypertension monitoring benefit (Livongo)

+ Accolade- Concierge Benefits Program

+ Wellness Program that equals savings on health insurance cost (Virgin Pulse)

+ Maternity Care Program

+ **(Benefits provided by the Choctaw Nation are based on employment classification)**

CNO was selected as a winner in both HRDUS' and Forbes' 2022 "Employer of Choice" competitions:

+ Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma received recognition as one of six Best Places to Work in the United States as selected by HRDUS

+ Choctaw Casinos & Resorts received recognition from Forbes as a Best Employer for Diversity in the Travel & Leisure category.

+ Forbes also recognized the Choctaw Casino and Resorts as one of America's Best Employers for New Graduates.

Job Identification: 16531

Job Category: Food and Beverage

Posting Date: 04/21/2025, 3:20 PM

Job Schedule: Full time

Job Shift: Variable

On-Site/Remote: On-Site