Kitchen Manager

Opaa Food Management Company - Lawson, MO

Full-time

Onsite - Lawson, MO

Food Services and Drinking Places

About the position

The Kitchen Manager is responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the kitchen, ensuring compliance with safety and health regulations, and maintaining quality standards in food preparation and service. This role involves supervising kitchen staff, coordinating meal preparation, and ensuring adherence to company policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Monitor food and food preparation to maintain quality standards for preparation, presentation, and sanitation.
• Promote customer service by investigating and resolving food quality and service complaints.
• Coordinate the preparation and daily transportation of meals going to all satellite buildings, where applicable.
• Conduct daily safety and production meetings with kitchen staff.
• Demonstrate and promote Opaa's Core Values and report concerns to the DNS immediately.
• Supervise kitchen staff in all areas of production, delegate workflow, and inform DNS of any personnel issues.
• Train, cross-train, and certify all kitchen job stations, and be prepared to perform any kitchen function as required.
• Ensure overall cleanliness and organization of the kitchen and storage areas.
• Maintain compliance with Opaa! recipes and menu plans, obtaining approval for menu changes from the DNS at least 24 hours in advance.
• Maintain strict compliance with the Opaa! Food Management, Inc. Timekeeping Policy and report discrepancies to DNS immediately.
• Submit all hours worked by clocking in and out in ADP or by submitting an edit sheet for any missing time.
• Maintain compliance with all HACCP processes and procedures, HHFKA, and CACFP Meal Patterns.
• Maintain compliance with all Opaa! safety processes and procedures, worker and health safety regulations, and State and Local Health Department requirements, reporting unsafe working conditions and safety incidents in a timely manner.
• Coordinate and submit food and supply orders to Boss.
• Ensure production records are complete and accurate daily, per student grade groups.
• Oversee, take commercial/commodity physical inventory count, and input into Boss, ensuring FIFO standards in storage.
• Ensure all product is properly received, counted, and discrepancies from the vendor invoice are noted on the receiving document.
• Enter participation counts into Boss daily and ensure accurate and timely completion of all required logs.
• Perform daily tray counts and reconcile them with the district report, ensuring all meals are reimbursable.
• Maintain open lines of communication with the building principal and conduct a weekly update meeting.
• Conduct 'Daily Dish' meetings and organize the production board to plan and monitor the flow of service.
• Attend and actively participate in all weekly Kitchen Manager meetings with DNS.
• Perform all other duties as assigned by Opaa! Food Management.

Requirements

• High School Diploma, GED, or relevant experience required.
• Serve Safe Certification; additional certifications may vary by state.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence and effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.