Kitchen Engineer

Recipe Unlimited • Vaughan, ON

23d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Kitchen Engineer provides operational consulting to cross-functional stakeholders who drive new menu or packaging items and new food-production equipment, systems, and process projects from conception to implementation. This engineer is specifically tasked with developing and influencing solutions to increase the production capacity of restaurants and decrease complexity, labour, or ergonomic risk for team members. This engineer needs to be skilled and confident in influencing and communicating with cross-functional partners at all levels of the organization. A significant contribution will be utilizing disciplined engineering analysis, problem-solving, and innovative design principles. The position must understand current state-of-the-art food-industry equipment designs and apply innovative, forward-thinking design initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree, background in Industrial Engineering or a similar discipline (Master's Degree in Engineering Discipline preferred)
• 5-8 years of engineering experience (Industrial Engineering preferred) with high interpersonal skills
• Proven ability to provide technical leadership to stakeholders
• Ability to work with wide latitude for unreviewed action or decision on outcomes
• Advanced project management skills demonstrated
• Previous experience working in a Restaurant
• Excellent communication, relational, and team skills to enable interaction with restaurant team members, as well as corporate peers and leaders
• Knowledge of producing and maintaining technical specification documents on both process and equipment improvement opportunities
• Experience leading cross-functional teams that include both technical and non-technical aptitudes
• Proficiency in Google (Doc, Sheets, Slides)

Responsibilities

• Provide SME (Small to Medium Enterprises) to all Recipe brands needing restaurant Operational Feasibility and process insight
• Provide a thorough understanding and process flow mapping of all our priority brands
• Provide thorough knowledge of Recipe brands Guest per hour models
• Identify barriers, bottlenecks, and pain points to continued profitable growth, prioritize problems to solve, and recommend improvements
• Find opportunities to optimize throughput and increase the speed of service for priority brands
• Influence partners across multiple brands and departments to direct large, high-impact programs related to restaurant capacity and complexity improvement
• Establish an operator feedback tool, allowing all ideas to be shared efficiently
• Provide continuous improvement recommendations for energy reduction
• Partner with high-level leadership within Recipe brands and departments, including Menu & Packaging, Food Safety, Culinary, Operations and Restaurant Central Operations Analytics, to craft strategy and ensure alignment
• Lead collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure that projects meet all business needs and are successfully executed within constraints
• Leverage skills as an individual contributor and in a technical leadership capacity
• Align strategy and work output with various cross-functional disciplines including, but not limited to, other teams within Design, Construction, Supply Chain, Kitchen Design, Culinary and Operations
• Influence strategic direction by providing input that directly impacts specific programs or areas of the business that have a broader impact across the organization

Benefits

• Flexible/Hybrid work environment
• 20% associate discount dining card and monthly dining allowance valid at participating Recipe brands
• Industry-leading benefits, wellness programs, and total rewards programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level