About the Role
Air Culinaire Worldwide is hiring for a brand-new kitchen in Armonk, NY, opening in Mid-November 2026. This role involves preparing basic food and menu items based on established recipes or customer requests, ensuring high-quality culinary standards, and supporting kitchen operations. Training will initially take place in Carlstadt, NJ.
Responsibilities
- Participate in training and directing new and existing team members, ensuring accuracy in food, packaging, labeling, and allergens.
- Provide feedback and suggestions to Kitchen Management Staff to monitor, maintain, and improve quality.
- Assist in the butchering of meats and fish and support daily kitchen operations.
- Ensure all food preparations and presentations meet ACW specifications and quality standards.
- Maintain a safe, orderly, and sanitized kitchen.
- Use preventative maintenance with all kitchen equipment and direct other team members to do the same.
- Assist in ordering and inventory.
- Use Shipday for all order logistics and deliveries, including delivery photos and recipient names.
Requirements
- A High School diploma is required.
- Current ServSafe Food Handling Certificate required at hire or within 45-days of hire.
- Must have knife/cutting skills.
- Must have an understanding of cooking techniques.
- Culinary experience in restaurants, hotels, or catering companies or its equivalent required, with experience in new culinary trends preferred.
- Demonstrate the ability to take orders and follow through as well as direct and work well with others in a team-driven, fast-paced environment.
- Must be energetic, enthusiastic, creative, and highly motivated to assist in food preparation and presentation.
- Flexibility to work different shifts, including weekends and holidays.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to apply good judgement understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
- Pre-employment background check.
- Pre-employment Drug Test.
- MVR (if applicable to the position).
- E-Verify.
Skills
- Culinary
- Food-service
- Customer-service
- Knife/cutting skills
- Cooking techniques
- Food preparation
- Food presentation
- Food safety
- HACCP compliance
- Inventory management
- Shipday usage
Location
- Armonk, NY
- Carlstadt, NJ
Work Type
- On-site
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Entry-level
- Mid-level
Education Level
- High School diploma
- ServSafe Food Handling Certificate
Benefits
- Healthcare and supplemental benefits eligibility on the first day of the month following 30 days of employment for full-time employees.
- 401 (K) Retirement Plan with a discretionary 100% employer match of the first 6% of participant contributions.
- Three (3) medical plans to choose from with excellent employer contribution.
- Available Dental and Vision insurance.
- Company paid basic life insurance, with the option to elect additional voluntary term life.
- Company paid short-term and long-term disability insurance.
- Available supplemental benefits, including critical illness, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance and pet insurance.
- Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account available (for eligible plans).
- Generous Vacation Program for full-time employees.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
About the Company
- Air Culinaire Worldwide is a leading private aviation catering and concierge services company.
- We are a promote-from-within company and top performers can achieve career goals quickly in this fast pace growth organization!
Equal Opportunity
- Air Culinaire Worldwide, LLC. does not discriminate in any way to deprive any person of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect the status of any employee because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or military or uniformed services, in accordance with all applicable governmental laws and regulations.
