Restaurant Culinary / Kitchen Manager - Levitate
Marshfield, MA 02050
About the Job
Full Time / Part Time / Seasonal: Seasonal Full-Time
Compensation: $22 - $32 / hour
Position Description, Responsibilities, and Documents:
Kitchen Manager responsibilities include supervising and overseeing food preparation and service, maintaining a fully-stocked kitchen inventory, ordering supplies, accepting deliveries and organizing invoices, scheduling shifts and complying with safety and cleanliness standards. To be successful in this role, you should be able to manage our kitchen staff and guide them to deliver quality food on time. Your role is to lead back-of-house staff including Line Cooks, Prep Cooks, food runners, event staff and Dishwashers, before, during and after meal service. Kitchen Managers inspect the kitchen to ensure everything is organized and sanitized appropriately. Ultimately, you will ensure all meals are properly cooked and served and our customers have a pleasant dining experience.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage kitchen staff, including schedules and timecards
- Place all food orders, including working with purveyors to get best pricing
- Supervise food prep and service
- Lead food service teams
- Check food plating and portion sizing to ensure healthy business operations
- Establish food waste logs and other food usage logs to optimize product
- Price menu items in collaboration with the Director of Operations
- Order food supplies and kitchen equipment, as needed
- Train kitchen staff on prep work and food plating techniques
- Store food products in compliance with safety practices (e.g. in refrigerators)
- Maintain sanitation and safety standards in the kitchen area
- Order materials, supplies, and ingredients based on demand.
- Oversee the food preparation and cooking process.
- Recruit and train kitchen employees in designated stations.
- Monitor inventory levels and perform weekly inventory assessments.
- Ensure the kitchen is clean and organized.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Must possess a valid drivers license.
- Must be eligible to work in the United States.
- Must agree to background check.
- Proven work experience as a Kitchen Manager, Restaurant Manager or Head Chef
- Hands-on experience with planning menus and ordering ingredients
- Knowledge of a wide range of recipes
- Familiarity with kitchen sanitation and safety regulations
- Excellent organizational skills
- Conflict management abilities
- Ability to manage a team in a fast-paced work environment
- Flexibility to work during evenings and weekends
- Certification from a culinary school or degree in Restaurant Management is a plus, Food Safe Certification a must
PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS
- Self-discipline, initiative and outgoing pleasant, polite manner.
- Minimum 3 years kitchen experience
- Minimum 2 years leading a kitchen team
- Experience with ordering and kitchen inventory systems
- Must be able to multitask and work calmly under pressure.
- Must possess great communication skills.
- Must be reliable, responsible and respectful.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Completes job responsibilities and performance objectives in a timely and effective manner and in accordance with Levitate Holdings policies and procedures.
- At all times provides a favorable image of Levitate.
WORKING CONDITIONS
- Position requires prolonged standing, bending, stooping, twisting, lifting products and supplies weighing up to 75 pounds, and repetitive physical tasks.
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