Executive Chef

Club Location: Signature of Solon Country Club - Solon, OH

Arcis Golf team members thrive on anticipating needs, forging connections, and elevating experiences for our team, members, and guests. We are an inclusive team of unique individuals who show up each day with a grateful spirit, humble heart, and a genuine respect for one another.

Job Description Club Location: Signature of Solon - Solon, OH

Arcis Golf team members thrive on anticipating needs, forging connections, and elevating experiences for our team, members, and guests. We are an inclusive team of unique individuals who show up each day with a grateful spirit, humble heart, and a genuine respect for one another.

Executive Chef Signature of Solon – Solon, Ohio

Position Summary Signature of Solon Country Club is seeking a visionary, hospitality-driven Executive Chef to lead our culinary program into its next era of excellence. This role is responsible for elevating the member dining experience, driving culinary innovation, ensuring fiscal discipline, and building a best-in-class kitchen culture rooted in consistency, pride, and service excellence.

The Executive Chef is both a creative leader and disciplined operator—developing memorable menus, mentoring talent, controlling food cost, and partnering closely with club leadership to deliver exceptional dining, events, and daily culinary experiences across all outlets.

Key Responsibilities Culinary Leadership & Innovation

• Design and execute seasonally inspired menus for all dining outlets, pool, events, halfway house, and special programming
• Lead all menu engineering, recipe standardization, portion control, and presentation standards
• Develop signature dishes, branded culinary experiences, and themed event menu
• Maintain high standards of food quality, consistency, freshness, and creativity
• Create culinary programming that drives participation, revenue, and member excitement

Financial & Operational Excellence

• Achieve or exceed food cost, labor cost, and departmental profit goal
• Conduct regular inventory, purchasing controls, and vendor management
• Negotiate pricing and ensure quality and cost consistency
• Lead menu pricing strategy and engineering for margin optimization
• Maintain detailed recipes, prep systems, and production pars

Team Leadership & Culture Building

• Recruit, train, develop, and inspire a professional culinary tea
• Build strong bench depth and succession planning
• Implement structured training, station certification, and advancement pathway
• Lead with accountability, positivity, and ownership
• Create a kitchen culture rooted in professionalism, cleanliness, teamwork, and pride

Member Experience & Event Execution

• Partner closely with Events, Membership, and Clubhouse leadership on weddings, tournaments, social events, and private function
• Personally oversee major events to ensure flawless execution
• Develop creative event menus, buffets, plated dinners, tastings, and action station
• Maintain high engagement and responsiveness to member feedback

Food Safety, Sanitation & Compliance

• Enforce ServSafe standards, HACCP principles, and all local/state health regulation
• Maintain immaculate kitchen sanitation and food handling practice
• Ensure all staff certifications and safety training are current
• Lead daily, weekly, and monthly sanitation audits

Desired Qualifications

• 5+ years as an Executive Chef or Senior Sous Chef in private club, resort, or high-end hospitality environment
• Proven track record in food cost control, labor management, and team leadership
• Strong event catering and banquet execution experience
• Hands-on, high-energy leadership style
• Excellent organizational, training, and communication skill
• ServSafe Manager Certification (required
• Culinary degree or equivalent professional experience preferred

What Success Looks Like (First 12 Months)

• Member satisfaction scores and dining participation materially increase
• Food cost maintained within budget while improving quality and portion consistency
• Kitchen fully staffed, trained, and stabilized with a strong leadership bench
• Culinary programming becomes a key driver of social engagement and retention
• Signature of Solon develops a reputation for “best dining in the market”

Why Signature of Solon? Role Role Signature of Solon is in a period of reinvestment and growth with a strong commitment to elevating member experience, culinary creativity, and culture. This role offers:
 

• Full creative influence over menus and programming
• Supportive leadership and collaborative culture
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and performance incentive
• Long-term career growth potential

Arcis Golf provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Arcis participates in E-Verify, the government program that certifies an employee's right to work for us in the U.S.

Arcis Golf provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Arcis participates in E-Verify, the government program that certifies an employee's right to work for us in the U.S.